of an after life along with over 3 million cases of near death experiences states that "since matter can neither be created or destroyed, it is reasonable that when we die, an energy in some form survives and moves onto another dimension..." (Martin 106). Furthermore, the real moral cause should be to determine what it is that makes a man commit murder or seek death as a justification of such crime. The ultimate punishment for the ultimate crime. Let us take a look at the death penalty from another standpoint, from a point that few people have dared to try to comprehend after we look at the facts and statistics regarding this issue and try to take a dialectical approach to ascertain that the death penalty is by all means a physical man's issue and a perfect example when two wrongs don't make a right. To date 38 states have the death penalty and according to NAACP LDF, there are 3,365 people on death row. The methods of execution are mainly by lethal injection, however, some states still use electrocution. In Louisiana, lethal injection is used but in some states more then one method can be applicable. "Federal prisoner is lethal injection, pursuant to 28 CRR, Part 26. For offenses under the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, the method is that of the State in which the conviction took place, pursuant to 18 USC 3596. If the state has no death penalty, the inmate will be transferred to another state." (Bureau of Justice Statistics 1996).On a Federal line, lethal injection is always used, however in a State case it varies among the state where the offense was incurred. The Federal Government alleviated most of it's responsibility of sentencing a person to death and shifted the guilt or responsibility to the states. But regardless of whether or not it is a federal or state capital case, the cost of executing a prisoner by far outweigh the cost of incarcerating them.If people convicted of a capital crime were g...
