Death to the Death Penalty

There are many laws in our country that have good intention as the basis. However, for any reason there is usually a chance that the law can be misused. This could be wrongful conviction from incorrect DNA evidence, false testimonies, or many other reasons. Chimeras, or people with two or more sets of DNA within their body, are a particularly interesting area in the courtroom that can prove to give wrongful convictions by thwarting the highly praised DNA evidence. Without going into too much detail, the main point is that courts are not always perfect, and can allow the innocent man to be seen as guilty. How then, can we allow something as conclusive and finalizing as the death penalty to be a possible outcome, or more so an end to so cases? Many inmates, in the history of the US legal system, have been released due to developments in their cases, but this will not matter if they were killed. The Death penalty is nothing more than an overstatement of the government’s confidence in their every ruling that needs to be quickly and completely removed from our legal system. We try to be civilized men in our everyday lives, and quickly and rightfully convict those who are so demented as to take another’s life. However, we are no better than them, if our answer is to do the same thing we are convicting them for? Our justification has always been hidden behind the government’s seal, but we are so easily reminded by history of the corruption of even the highest elected officials that this is not always sound. The line must be drawn in the sand somewhere, as to the extent of the governments “legal” abilities and unfortunately this line has long been washed away by the ever-present waves of illogical arguments and corruption.