Death

“Has your attitude toward capital punishment been reinforced,
challenged or changed by the book Dead Man Walking?”

It has always been my personal belief that there is a better way of
deterring crime than the death penalty. Death is such a strong
reaction to a crime, no matter how gruesome it is. True; murderers
need to be punished. A murderer should be locked away for life with no
chance for parole however, not killed in cold blood by a few men the
government has hired. The book, Dead Man Walking, has only
strengthened my belief and arguments against the death penalty.
The book states many reasons why the death penalty is nothing more
than a show of power by the state it is instituted in. The book tells
how the public is greatly misinformed when it comes to the death
penalty. 70 percent of the nation agrees with the death penalty (1986
Gallup Poll), but after learning more about it, only 43 percent do.
(Pg 116)This is a great change. The...