The intention to put another human to death is hard to fathom. Life is sacred, this is a notion that everyone can agree on. Taking a human 's life away has been one of the most deplorable crime in history. How is it capital punishment …show more content…
The lives of the minorities are valued less than the whites, since we live in a White supremacy. We are told that White people created the pyramids in Egypt when in all reality it was the African Americans who did, but aren 't given credit for their achievement due to the color of their skin. The Whites need to feel superior than the rest of the nations race. Over the 18,000 executions that have been taken place; only 42 involved a case where a White person was punished for killing a black percent. (Six Reasons to Oppose the Death Penalty, 2016.)
The death penalty punishes the poor who can 't afford an attorney. We are granted the right to an attorney by the state, but what attorney will want to get you out of death row without good pay in return. Attorneys won 't even bother to try to get you out. If the attorney was hired by the state what makes you think they will be on your side. More than 90% of the defendants cannot afford an attorney and given attorney that are unpaid and unskilled for that trial. (Six Reasons to Oppose the Death Penalty, 2016.) It 's a win- win to the state, with the exception that it is