Sister Helen Prejean says the death penalty is a violation
of human dignity and is inconsistent to the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. I
feel that the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, which states,” who taught us to
no to return hate for hate and evil for evil” do not support the death penalty.
I believe that this passage does not allow the death penalty because we are
returning an ‘evil’ deed for something that is also ‘evil’. Killing somebody
because they killed somebody makes us just as bad. All of the people who are on
death row deserve to be punished for what they have done but killing somebody
will not solve the problem, it will only make killing seem like an okay thing
to do. Allowing the death penalty to be the capital punishment certainly does
not follow the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth because he stated that we should
not return evil with evil, and that is what the death penalty is doing.
I agree with this because if we keep the death penalty we are essentially committing an evil act also. It seems that if we keep the death penalty it will be a never-ending circle of people killing one another. It kind of reminds me of the quote "An eye for an eye will make the world go blind" The death penalty doesn't solve the problem, I actually feel as if it's an easy way out for criminals. Jesus of Nazareth would never want something like this to happen because he would believe that killing another human being no matter the circumstances is wrong.
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