Inhumane system of Justice
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The effects of a corrupt society are everlasting. During the past two centuries the United States of American has endured many cases in which it has had to make difficult decisions involving the right to put someone to death. To commend a man or woman to death is unjustified.. The death penalty is unreasonable due to wrongful convictions, the unjustifiable use of revenge of the victim's family and the geographic use of the death penalty.
There are two sides to every argument. People believe in the capital punishment. They are in favor of the death penalty for many reasons. Robert Grant, a New York State attorney and a former judge, also an author of American Ethics sates "To a majority of Americans it is, essentially, to retaliate and punish those who commit crimes, especially brutal and vicious murders, thus balancing the scales of justice" (Grant 25). The death penalty brings closure to many victim's families. People believe in capital punish because they believe that the death penalty sends a definitive message to other inspiring murders..