Reviving The Death Penalty

        'An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth' is one of the oldest and most famous sayings in the world. It comes from the Mosaic Law in the Bible and it is an edict that has ruled millions for thousands of years. Today the issue of capital punishment has our nation split down the middle. The two sides have drawn lines in the sand and are emphatically holding their ground. The need for …

…indicates a risk it will happen again' (Bedau, 179). So the problem lies in the risk of either executing the innocent or a recidivist murderer.         Nobody knows how long the debate over capital punishment will continue. Long after a law is passed, either for or against the death penalty, the argument will still go on. In my mind, anti-death penalty supports are trying to avoid a very serious problem, the problem of brutal crimes in America.