Religious fanatics shout condemnations, families of lost ones want retribution, widows are left wondering why they ever got married in the first place, my mom sighs and wonder what the world is coming to as she reviews the death of a 24 year old boy convicted of a murder felony in 1968 (Oshinsky 3). I say boy because his life was not cut short by fate, or any god. His life was cut short by a government system that applies a needle into the arm and wonders what it feels like to die under lethal injection. As children can now watch the international execution of 4 drugs trafficker in China we wonder how the death penalty affects our future. Capital Punishment has a fog of political and moral questions surrounding it. Does it really deter crime? Does it give families closure? Are most criminals on death row black? But at the center of these questions remains the controversial key, should the United States of America allow for the use of death penalty? Capital Punishment is a not only detriment to society morally, but economically as well. The long needle pulls in issues of the promotion of violence, religion, economics, and ultimately causes one to question whether the power to take a life should be put in the hands of a government system that is faulty. .
Too many people have thrown out the broad, overreaching statement that the Death Penalty subdues crime rates, while there are no hard statistics to back this theory it has become clear that the act of execution is becoming an acceptable norm. The acceptable norm is a killing where the accused is strapped to table and injected with toxins in front of an audience. If this does not promote violence than what does? As the media reaches into many homes and workplaces the public has a clear view of any trial involving the death penalty. Suddenly children have access to watch people die under the banner of justice. In March of this year a Chinese television program broadcasted live images of the final moments of four drug traffickers before they were publicly executed by lethal injection (Los Angeles Times).
