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Life or death

was marked with many of the circumstances found in other cases where the defendant was eventually cleared. Where Coleman still incarcerated, his friends and attorneys would have a strong incentive to resolve these questions. But because Coleman is dead, further inquiry into the crime for which he was convicted is extremely unlikely. Capital punishment is a very inhumane way to make a convict pay for their crime. Too much is on the line. The persons’ life. Sister Prejean believes that all men are sons of God and none of them deserve to die, especially not for the sake of revenge.Throughout the novel Dead Man Walking Sister Helen Prejean makes her point well heard. She shows how the electric chair is a very faulty way of execution. She shows how execution is inhumane in itself. Many parents around the world always say to their kids; “Two wrongs don’t make a right.” That quote tells a great part of Prejean’s struggle. Why kill a man when one has already died. Keep the suffering in the world down. Do not let the state take the most important thing to you. Your family. What could succumb to the loss of a loved one to the state? Especially if they are innocent. Life is not something you can just put in other peoples hands. Is it right to have a jury make the decision of life or death for another person? If a person is put on trial for murder will that person then live to see the next day? Worst of all, will that person live to see their family and loved ones again? The problems that the death penalty puts on our society is mind-boggling. End the problems of the death penalty. End the death penalty....

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