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Moral Justification of the Death Penalty

the life of other persons" (45). Moreover, many supporters favoring capital punishment may admit to some innocent persons being wrongly executed and with facts of racial issues against black and white is concerned. While on the contrary, racial factors should not be involved in the conviction of such persons. These are facts of unavoidable flaws of the system, yet still is an acceptable way to use, to further protect society. The principal plea of the death penalty is that only by taking a murderer's life is when true justice is served. As so the most common fear is that an innocent person is wrongly executed, still, the finality of execution requires that accused murderers be given the opportunity to challenge their convictions. Upon that, these murderers are sill given a chance to live to prove their innocence. Though, with the debate over this issue, today, many innocent people were executed for false evidence. Considering that many, judge the system to be unjust. Then again, innocent persons may be carried out for execution, though it can be directed to the saying, "its better to punish the wrong person, rather than let the wrong person go." For example, with today's new technologies in science such as DNA, who judges if they do prove to be true or false? A person who commits a murder, deserves death, for he becomes worthy of the crime he has done. However, noting that he should not be put to death, but primarily in the condition, where he is treated in the same condition, in a acceptable note. The Church's teaching on capital punishment is sometimes presented in this way: "The state has the right to put those who commit serious crimes to death for the sake of the common good" (Bender and Leone 69). Though this statement may be misleading, the fact that states is that the punishment should be carried out for the sake of the society. With the government, maintaining its ground of law and order for its people. In a short paragrap...

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