r is likely to murder when released, how can someone who did murder not repeat his or her crime? Proponents arguments again, almost imperceptibly, bring the image of death to the forefront of peoples fears.When Death Penalty proponents try to gain sympathy for those being murdered, they are unable to use peoples fear of death. When Amnesty International describes the pain of electrocution, gassing, hanging, poisoning, or shooting, it cannot be quantified . They have no way to describe the pain with words. It is necessary that they cause people to feel pain, because it is hard for society to identify with a murderer. The words opponents of the Death Penalty use must convey covey...the aversive ness being experienced inside of the body of someone...whose ordinary life is unknown. Proponents must bridge the gap between murderer and average citizen, so that the average citizen is able to feel with the murderer, to have compassion for the murderer.The way people are outraged by murder must be transferred to outrage at the legal murder of a killer. When people have sympathy for the murderer, when they are able to feel what someone dies feels there is no room for the Death Penalty. Groups opposed to the Death Penalty have formed out of families of Death Penalty victims; show an interesting mirror to families of murder victims. Because families usually have compassion rather than judgment for each other, they are able to feel sympathy for victims of Capital Punishment much more strongly. It is in this situation that people are able to transfer their pain over to all the people on Death Row, rather than their family member. Because the operatives in the argument for and against the Death Penalty are pain and fear, it is difficult to sort out what is right and what is wrong. It is very easy for someone to feel pain and feel fear; we do it without understanding it. And because we cannot understand fear and pain it is difficult to tra...
