up the guidelines for revenge killing in ancient Israel. This point does not satisfy the argument that the death penalty is necessary. In Tennessee, death penalty trials cost an average of 48 more than the average cost of trials in which prosecutors seek life imprisonment. These are just some of the reasons the death penalty should be removed. The funny thing is that governments all over the world have tried to validate capital punishment by stating what they think are the advantages of death penalty would provide to the people. When injured by wicked persons, the king should therefore think seriously on the question of punishment. It has even been uttered that the death penalty serves to restore some metaphysical order in the universe that becomes unbalanced when an individual is murdered. Behold by killing a single robber, his wife, mother, father and children, all are killed.

The execution team had to reinsert the catheter into the vein. These applications also branch to the various concepts of a fair justice system, and to what measure a justice system is fair if there is an objective measure to it at all. Even in Texas, the US state with the most executions, costs are making capital cases a challenge.

Our natural rights as humans, which cannot be taken away by the government, include the right to life. One of the prime reasons that people support capital punishment is because of the deterrence factor involved with the death penalty. Should we do to the criminal as they did to the victim? Because they were only sent to jail and not sentenced to death their sentence can be reversed. Habeas corpus and other post-appeal procedures, according to advocates of the death penalty like Professor Walter Berns in his For Capital Punishment: Crime and the Morality of the Death Penalty, endlessly spin out cases and postpone punishment while never showing that a murderer was not. The rest of society can be expected to protect itself against the actions of these criminals. Unless otherwise stated, this is original content, released under. It should be noted that these restrictions were only held among the Israelites themselves. If applied, this makes sense out of nonsense within Christian scripture, though the rejection of Old Testament standards of what is just and the rejection of it by Christians today is a perfect example of selective interpretation of the Bible and self-contradiction. The death penalty takes focus away from the victims and focuses the attention on the criminal.