Capital Punishment

Dead Man walking was an extraordinary and really thought provoking movie that got me to re-examine some of my fundamental beliefs of the death penalty. It's the first time I actually saw a video so graphic about death row. It was so detailed and it showed us how the inmate on death row felt through out the process. I use to be all for death row. My beliefs were you take a life your life …

…great amount of people were directly helped by Leopold and Loeb and both of them made a conscious commitment to atone by serving others. Now when people ask me if I am for or against the death penalty all I'll tell them is, are we justified in playing God by determining another's date of death? People seem to understand that life precious and life for a life is the way to be looked at it.