Reform Starts at the Local Level Not at the National
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The death penalty, as it stands this moment, is in perfect working condition. The problems that most citizens of the United States actually have with the death penalty aren't about the law itself, but about the people who work this law. With the technologies, abilities, and mental capacities that we, as a people and a society, have evolved into, we should be able understand this law more clearly. Granted, as all Nations and court systems have problems in our world today, weeding out the good felons from the bad, there is a reason that we have upheld the integrity of the death penalty. (Yes, I said integrity and death penalty in the same sentence). Not only in the U.S., but throughout the world.
In Arab countries, Cuba, Iraq, and Iran, if you steal a piece of bread from a vendor in the market, and you are caught, you will lose your hand. This, to Americans, seems harsh and steeped in an old-world, or stone-age type of air, one that we have trouble imagining living within...