Staying Alive....Final Post on This Dumb Punishment

I have to start by agreeing on the fact that Illinois’s banning of the death penalty was just. I absolutely hate the death penalty, and after learning more about it, I still hate it. There is a lot of Capital Punishment cases in which the man they kill is innocent, and I don’t see how a punishment this severe could have so many flaws.  Although there are flaws and it is completely idiotic, the death penalty is not going against the Constitution therefore it can stay in existence.

                Governor Ryan like myself didn’t really get the full picture behind the death penalty and of course he thought that it was a just way of punishing someone. After finding out more about it he was right in changing his mind.  When he was finally opened up to the reality of the death penalty and saw that seventeen men whom were innocent had been on death row, he finally saw that there were plenty of flaws in the system.  Also he got to see how it affects the people close to the victim of the death penalty. So Governor Ryan finally came to the realization that the death penalty sucks.

                Not only are there flaws and innocent people sentenced to death, but also after reading this speech and listening to debates in class, why does one man deserve the death penalty than the next? Listening to debates in class and having to judge if someone should be sentenced to death or not was tough enough. Especially in the case when a man killed 4 people and wounded 5 others; was sentenced to a life in prison. Why did he get that and the man that killed one lady gets sentenced to death? I don’t understand how this system is still in play. As the Governor said about these criminals spending life in jail and rotting away in a cell is better than letting them just die and have essentially no punishment.