The death penelty is an innoficiant way of upholding the law. It is slow, costly, and does not detter people from commiting crimes. It is responsible for the death of innocent people and it does not provide closure for the family of the muredered. The death penelty should be abolished, it is useless and expensive. The death penelty is not a detterant. This year the New York Times did a survey that showed ten out …showed first 75 words of 588 total…

…showed last 75 words of 588 total…sentenced to death, killing them is no resolution. This only makes the family of the executed just as unhappy as the family of the victims, why make more people miserable. An eye for an eye isn't a just argument, because two wrongs will naver make a right. "with an execution, everyone is a victim. I never believed that crap about closure." -Larry Fitzgerald, spokesman for Texas Department of Criminal Justice, to the Dallas Observer, July 29, 2000