Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Lowe, Wesley. Pro Death Penalty. Dept.of Government. <http://www.wesleylowe.com/cp.html>

This artifact provides me with even more specific details about the ant-death penalty views. The furthermore topic I decided to look into at this site was called "The Constitutionality of Capital Punishment." The site gives direct quotes from the US Constitution and helps defend the ant- view even stronger. One quote that I liked from the site was "One death is a tragedy, but a million deaths are statistics." Another thing I learned was: Another weapon used to fight capital punishment is the Holy Bible, the "source of all morality." As a catholic this is information to make me even further swayed. Also my political view is Conservative so it makes sense that I defend this view.

This artifact helps me stay with the view for ant-death penalty. I do not understand why we kill people to help teach them that killing people is wrong. I still do not believe in the death penalty but I think I need to research the Pro views even further. However I do not plan to use religion as an important argument because I dont see it as very strong seeing as there are so many religions. If I used that I dont think that my argument would be as strong and taken into account for.
I think that this quote from the webpage helps me stay at my stance even better:
I favor a fair trial, one quick appeal and prompt execution. I don't think murderers ought to live much beyond 12 months from the day their victim is buried...[and] As for not being able to correct a mistake, so what? Virtually all accidental deaths are deaths by mistake. Why impose a standard of perfection only on the criminal justice system? There are no perfect human institutions. Our system is, more than any other, designed to protect the rights of the defendant. The chance of a truly innocent person being executed is exceedingly slim. But if it happens, it happens just as things happen to people every day." I think that there the topic is talked about way too loosely and is too casual about the whole topic. I think it is a very serious matter and that was someone not taking it serious enouugh.

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