Death & Justice

Edward I. Koch reviews in Death and Justice a variety of excuses to abolish the death penalty. He argues the importance of the death penalty as well as, argues excuses of the death penalty opponents. He argues ethical and political reasoning to the importance and support of the death penalty. In his question “did their (death row convicts opposed to the death penalty) newfound reverence for life stem from the realization that they were about to lose their own?” provided a thoughtful wrenching opportunity for the reader. The question permitted thought and a powerful counter argument to the convict’s defensive objection to the death penalty. Koch’s question defended the death penalty by merle questioning the intent of convict’s argument of ending the death penalty. The question implied that the intent of the convicts were only to save their lives with total disregard to their victims.
In Koch’s writings he is also able to dispel even the arguments of Mr. Adam Bedau ...