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I disagree with the author, the death penalty does not deter violent crimes. If anything it helps promote the United States as a violent nation. People know of the consequences and still commit murders, and this will not change there will always be deranged members of society no matter what we do. There is another option, life in prison. Life in prison is cheaper and the murders are taken out of society for the rest of there natural life. So why take another life when we don't have to? When I was younger I use to strongly believe in the death penalty, but as I grew older and wiser I realized there are many other factors to think about then just the death of the murder. Factors such as the family of the murder, and tax payers dollars being wasted are important things to think about. A question I was soon asking myself was if murdering is wrong, why do we do it to justify one? And to answer that question, I really don’t know and no one else seems to know the answer. Although, the author does have a good point with the two cases he provides there are many other cases in which there have been men put to death, to only be later found innocent with new evidence found or other witnesses approaching. Once someone has received the death penalty there is nothing anyone can do, it is irreversible. Killing the murder does not bring the deceased back, and I do not understand how taking another life would bring any closure to the family. Also, the states that do enforce the death penalty usually have a higher murder rate than the states that do not. In conclusion, the death penalty should be abolished not only because it is barbaric, but it also defies the U.S. Constitution, the death penalty even if it remains legal in the U.S. would not obtain its goal. And in my opinion the death penalty fails its main objective and because of the reasons stated above, that contradict the authors, should be abolished