The Death Penalty Robert Blecker Summary

Death Penalty The death penalty is a highly controversial issue, it is beyond doubt, because it related to live. Victims achieve ‘Retribution’ from death penalty, as a response to social injustice. There are many years of history used of death penalty, starting from the first death penalty law established in “Eighteenth Century B.C. in the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon” (Introduction), which people often say ‘an eye for an eye’. This means the punishment must match the crime, if you kill someone, then you should pay back with life. The death penalty in America was under the influence by Britain when “settlers came to the new world, they brought the practice of capital punishment” (Introduction). Since then, death penalty become a significant

Robert Blecker the author of the article “With death penalty, let punishment truly fit the crime” believes the death penalty should be abolished. He thinks sentencing offenders to death is just giving them a taste of death and “satisfies our deepest instincts of justice” (Blecker), but they do not really realize the mistakes they made. In addition, Blecker describes his personal experience as a witness to an execution which made him “shuddered” (Blecker) and he notes the “lethal injection appears, feels and seems medical, although it sole purpose is to kill” (Blecker). The medicine is usually used as a treatment but for the defendant it is the poison brings them to hell. According to Blecker’s observation, he finds out instead of those misdemeanor inmates, who commit serious crimes lived a more comfortable prison cell. Moreover, Blecker also satirized the justice system: “we recoil from punishing those who most deserve it, we readily over punish those who don’t” (Blecker) by saying that is to ironically the American prison give the felony a better living condition as a “punishment” for what they did, the justice system need to be fixed. In the end of the article, he suggests the rest of us to stand up to protect the right of prisoners and hopes to change to way of punishment give every prisoner an equitableness

Even Death Penalty Supporters Can Push for Change". In the beginning of the article he introducing him as a Virginia attorney general who had seen many case of executed. During Earley’s tenure he finds out the failures in the justice system regardless of the fact that the justice system declares they only put criminals who deserve to death and pardon the innocent. The flaw in the system can not be disregard no matter you are supporting or against the death penalty because it is all about the justice of the offenders and victims. Earley compares one lawyer in his office with wealth experience to the other defense attorneys to shows the lack of the resources and experience of the attorney is the biggest problem cause the offender be sentenced to death because the defense counsel holds a very important role in the case. A wealthy people can buy an experienced lawyer to help them mitigate the crimes, but for the poor people they only been put to death. Meanwhile, Earley gives the state some suggestions to amend the “lack of justice and fairness in state death penalty systems” (Earley). Earley works with his colleagues and pass out 39 detailed recommendations can help ensure the death penalty justice system is “more just and