Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Obama's Stands on Death Penalty

http://www.huliq.com/41519/barack-obama-to-change-death-penalty-law
Obama is taking the death penalty very seriously. He agrees that the capital punishment shouldn’t be abolished, but he also totally disagrees that innocent people would have to deal with it. Obama states that the death penalty does “deter crime” but prison can work just as well. Is a life of an innocent person is worth taking to punish other real criminals, while we can punish them with imprisonments? The answer is no, there will always be that small percentage of error in making death penalty decisions, and it is not worth taking.

Following Obama’s reasoning, if a criminal is not sentenced the death penalty, what would you tell the victim’s parents? That their son’s death is not horrible enough for the criminal to deserve the death penalty? The capital punishment should be unacceptable regardless of the type of crime committed.

Obama’s idea of videotaping police interrogations might work. However, it won’t be enough to avoid making mistakes, and sending innocent people to death. The only way to stop killing guiltless people is to abolish the death penalty. It is true that videotaping interrogation will probably decrease injustice but it won’t remove it at all.

Obama’s did his best arguing the issue of death penalty, and he came up with great ideas. For instance, it is said in the article: “He (Obama) was the one who kept people at the table." He took the death penalty seriously, and tried to compromise between the two sides: the one that are for the death penalty, and the ones that are completely against.

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