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"execution prevents eighteen murders per year."(Hirsch, 122)
Opponents argue that capital punishment is immoral. But if you follow
the Old Testament, it is moral. In one passage from Genesis, 'Whoever sheds the
blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed.' Another from Exodus, 'Eye for an
eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for
wound, stripe for stripe' (Samaha, 440). It was not very moral of the prisoner
to commit a murder in the first place. Why should it be immoral to execute a
prisoner, but moral to kill an innocent person. 'It is as morally right to
punish criminals for their wicked deeds as it is to praise heroes for their
heroic deeds. If it is noble for soldiers to give their lives for their country
in wartime, then it is morally right to claim the lives of murderers for killing
innocent people in peaceable society(Samaha, 441).' According to Professor
Ernest van den Haag: 'The life of each man should be sacred to each other man...
it is not enough to proclaim the sacredness and inviolability of human life. It
must be secured as well, by threatening with the loss of their own life those
who violate what has been proclaimed as inviolable-the right of innocents to
live' (Haag, 67).
Other opponents argue that there is the chance of executing an innocent
prisoner. Hugo Adam Bedu and Michael L. Radelet collected evidence of every
capital punishment case after the 1930's. They concluded that 23 innocent
people, out of several thousand cases in the twentieth century, were convicted
and executed, but all of these mistakes were made because there was a 'forced
confession, suppression of evidence, and perjury' (Samaha 442). That means not
one of these persons was actually innocent they just had bad lawyers, or no
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