In my classmate's blog entitled "From Bills to Bluebonnets", Kathryn Barnes takes a stand against the legality of the Death Penalty in Texas. Her main point of argument is that of the impossibility of being one hundred percent certain of a conviction. While this argument is true and she defends herself well, Barnes leaves the reader searching for more support for her stand. She ends well by providing a realistic option to replace the death penalty. However, she does not convince her readers that the death penalty should definitely be done away with.
Barnes fails to deal with the financial burden of life in prison. She fails to deal with the counterarguments that will no doubt ensue from a proponent of the death penalty. I support her belief and support her main argument and think she could have left it as a main argument, but also believe she stopped too early.
I share this belief that the Death Penalty does not belong in our legal system. I believe that life in prison without parole is a viable alternative for the state, as long as we find a way to raise the funds for our prison systems to do this. I think the moral issue of death is one to be raised as well. While the majority of people who take a moral stand of some kind on murder, take the stand of refusing to support it, some still justify the death penalty as an exception and a warranted murder. However, we must see it for what it really is. It is taking the life of another human being. This must be seen as the crime that it is. We cannot fight the crime of killing with more killing. We must find a higher road to take, keeping the government from corruption.
While I completely agree with the points made by Barnes, I believe a few more steps, such as these stated above, could have helped to make her argument more complete.
http://frombillstobluebonnets.blogspot.com/2011/08/death-penalty-or-life-without-parole.html
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