Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right With the Death Penalty

TSO Letter to the Editor

The death penalty, a punishment used for the worst of crimes; murder, genocide, and crimes against humanity.  However, most of the world doesn't use the death penalty.  Bangladesh, China, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen all have the death penalty for children as well as adults.  How is that fair?  People would rather die than spend the rest of their lives in prison, so isn't the death penalty helping these criminals?  The ways we kill criminals in the United States is hardly humane.  Electrocution, lethal gas, firing squad, hanging, and lethal injection are not humane at all.  It also is very costly to kill criminals, more costly than keeping them in prison for the rest of their lives.  The death penalty also violates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  Who says they should be able to kill people? Two wrongs do not make a right.

--Sam, 13, Illinois     
 

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