do and kill them in return? "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."(Ghandi) If we kill people for killing other people we are basically saying murder is a good choice. If the government can say that a person deserves to die then why can't an ordinary person do the same? Last year in Boston, a fifteen year-old boy was killed in a fight over jewelry. The boy, Cerrone Hemingway, was shot in the head and died. A family member said, "The notion that your child must die because my child died? That does not satisfy. It does not bring peace. It only turns our hearts to stone." (Diego Ribadeneira, p.3)This family experienced the great loss of having a loved one killed. Yet they still do not feel it is right to put the killer to death. If the family of the victim does not think the killer deserves to die, who has the right to say they should die? The family is the one who is suffering so they should have the right to say they do not want to kill anyone.Sometimes murderers will kill themselves after committing the crime so they will not have to face the consequences of what they have done. That, to me, is taking the easy way out. These people would rather be dead, as well as the people they killed, then spend the rest of their lives in jail. It is a proven fact that the murder rates are lower in states that have done away with the death penalty. No one wants to spend his or her life wasting away in jail. The death penalty is another easy way out. If a person commits a crime as horrible as murder they would probably rather die themselves then sit in prison for the rest of their lives. They have so much free time to think about how they mad the wrong choice. I feel they should have to suffer through that in jail not end their lives right away. Life in prison should be their punishment not death. There is a debate going on now in Massachusetts on whether or not the death penalty should be implemented. Cardinal Bernar...
