cles in vain for the execution of any member of the affluent strata of this society." (Bedau 271) This is true if you have money, and you commit a murder you will probably not get the death penalty. Does this mean we should get rid of capital punishment? No, we should keep it around. If it is maldistributed among the innocent that is another questioned. However, we are not, we are talking about how it is maldistributed among the guilty. When the death penalty is maldistributed among the guilty that does not mean we should get ride of capital punishment, when a person commits a immoral act like murder they should be executed. They were tried and convicted, so now they have to face the music. It is to bad that if you have money or you are a different color you may get out of the death penalty. Should this change? Yes, it should change will it probably not because money talks in this country, but we should not get rid of the death penalty. Bedau also points out how the threat of the death penalty is not a good deterrent it may even cause a person to kill an innocent person, "if they are reasonably certain of achieving their own death and perhaps some notoriety." (Bedau 267) Well if they want to die then we should execute them. However, I do not think this is why they kill someone. If they wanted to die they could just kill themselves. I know you could also say that a person may not want to kill himself, but he does not have to kill someone to be killed. All they have to do is wave a gun in the face of a cop, and you will probably be killed. Then if they do kill some one for notoriety then we should also execute them because they committed an immoral act. He also gives a situation that happened in England when pick pockets would be executed for their crimes, that pick pockets actually did a great deal of pick pocketing during an execution. This may be true. however, we are not going to deter all potential murderers, but...
