Capital Punishment in America Capital punishment should be seen as the stripping of humanity from a person. The death penalty itself should be “carried out” due to racial inequities, the concept of murder, the possibility of error, lack of deterrence, cost, and an overwhelmed legal system. “The purpose of capital punishment is revenge” (Introduction 1). Capital punishment is simply an outlet for the bloodlust of the American people (Introduction 1). The death penalty is very discriminatory when it comes to racial issues. “The death penalty is fraught with abuse and the potential for abuse” (Moral Arguments 1). Capital punishment is largely “divided along racial lines” (Moral Arguments 1). “A 1990 report released by the federal government's General Accounting Office found a 'pattern of evidence indicating racial disparities in charging, sentencing, and imposition of the death penalty since the Furman decision'” (Moral Arguments 1 ). In the 1970s, Professor David Baldus examined sentencing patterns in Georgia. He examined over two thousand five hundred murder cases in Georgia and controlled for two hundred and thirty non-racial factors. His conclusion was that “a person accused of killing a white person was 4.3 times more likely to be sentenced to death than a person accused of killing a black person” (Moral Arguments 1). Imagine the statistics when you add the other states in our country. Capital punishment is murder. It doesn't really matter how you look at it. The end result is always the same. “What is the difference between state murder and individual murder” (Moral Arguments 1). The end result is the same. It is "another corpse, another set of grieving parents, and another place in the cemetery. When we execute someone, we send a profound message of cynicism" about the value of human life (Moral Arguments 2). “Every time we execute someone,” we descend to the same level as the murderer (Moral Arguments 2). “The American people have blood on their hands, and will remain so until we finally eliminate this barbaric practice from our nation” (Moral Arguments 2). One of the most obvious reasons is the d...... middle of the card. ..... The death penalty is based on revenge against the murderer. At the end of the day all you get is another body to bury. Works Cited “Death.” http://donlemaire.homestead.com/deathpen~main.html."Fighting the death penalty in the United States." www.fp.dk/index-uk.htm."Innocence and the death penalty." www.essential.org/dpic/innoc.html.Greenberg, Jack. "Taking a stand." Dushkin Publishing Group, Inc. 1991."Introduction." http://pages.prodigy.com/DC/vortex.intro.html."Moral Arguments Against the Death Penalty." http://pages.prodigy.com/DC/vortex/moral.html."Netmonkey Death Penalty Page." www.netmonkey.com/1998/features/death/death8.html."Pragmatic Arguments Against the Death Penalty."http://pages.prodigy.com/DC/vortex/prag.html.United States. Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice. "The challenge of crime in a free society". New York: Avon, 1968.