Albert Camus once said: “There are causes worth dying for,
but none worth killing for.” I’m against the death penalty. It’s really hard
for me to blame someone so harshly for anything that they do because I think
actions are shaped by experience, and that person who has committed a crime so
heinous as to end up in the position of “death penalty” must have had a
terrible past experience that led them to such actions. When defending my
position on the death penalty I often think of the movie “The Ides of March”
and how George Clooney playing a presidential candidate defended his opinion.
It is societies job to be better than the average man. We are animals. This is
proven time and time again by how many murders take place, but it is our job as
a community to make each other better, to soar to greater heights. I’m against
the death penalty because I still believe in humanity and I believe that if we
come together as a community we can help each other past violence instead of
creating more.
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