Capital Punishment Dismissal

In October 2009 capital punishment in the U.S was officially sanctioned by thirty-four states. Since 1976 to 2009 there have been 1,167 executions within the thirty-four states. Capital punishment should not exist. Innocent people are victims of capital punishment, and what about those people who change during imprisonment? What message are we sending people, is it really ok to kill people who killed people to show that killing is wrong?  The death penalty do bring closure to the victims family who has suffered, and also shows a form of justice, but at the end of the day it really is a useless act, it don’t bring back the life or lives that was already taken. If a person plans the murder of another person it is consider premeditated, and they are giving a life sentence. The capital punishment is premeditated and planned action of taking another humans life except its by the government. It’s the governments “only” response to the legally convicted person.  Capital punishment is the ultimate denial/contradiction of the human rights, it’s cruel and unusual punishment, not to mention degrading punishment. Everyone in this society spends the same money, Which reads “In God We Trust”, if we believe in Gods law we can’t make adjustments  for “exceptional” situations. If we are living life according to the way God want us to we should follow his word. “Thou Shalt Not Kill” even if a person do commit this crime, which is without a doubt unacceptable and the person should have some kind of punishment, but who is the “Government” to make the decision of taking a life. The Bible instructs us to forgive as the Lord has forgave us. Colossians 3:13 There are several reasons to consider banning capital punishment, my claim is not saying that a person should not be punished, because they should. Something has to be done to those people who commit crimes, especially when  a innocent life has been taken. Jury members are reluctant to convict a person if it means putting them to death. They might also be against the death penalty. Also the financial cost to taxpayers of capital punishment is several times more the to just keep a person in prison for life. After all it is a possibility that the government is taking a innocent person life. Tookie Williams was the co-founder of the Crips, he was accused of killing four people and as sentence to the death penalty. After five years of imprisonment he underwent a religious conversion and authored many books and programs. He begun to promote peace and started to spoken on the gang violence and how he no longer supported it. He was nominated five times for the Nobel peace prize and four times for the Nobel literature prize. Tookie was convicted and still sentence to death even after making a positive change, he never admitted to killing four people. There was a lack off evidence to against Williams, which left doubt if he even committed all four murders. Still he was accused of all four. Even if he did commit all four of the murders, why not give him life in prison. After his execution the fact that four people got murder still remains. Williams clearly changed and a lot of people thought he should have been given a second chance. Not to be a free man, but to be held accountable for his actions but in a more usual way then the death penalty. We as a society have to move away from the “eye for eye” revenge mentality if civilization is to advance. At the end of the day we live life according to God’s law, and those who chose not to should have him (God) to answer to, not someone who have little more higher authority.