The Death Penalty

The death penalty is not as big of a religious/ political issue as gay marriage or abortion may be, but it is still often debated about. The death penalty is a very sensitive subject to talk about, at least for me. I personally do not believe that capital punishment should be enforced because as Gandhi once said an eye for an eye makes the whole world go blind. I just think that there is no use in yet another life, why could not they just let the criminal rot in jail for life which seems like a worser punishment to me.

Religion wise obviously each religion feels differently about the death penalty. Though I am going to focus on the Christians. In the United States a majority of the Protestants support the death penalty and on the opposite side, the Catholics are against the death penalty. These two groups have continuously been fighting each other about this issue of the death penalty. The question at hand is whether or not America will ever get rid of the death penalty and if these religious groups should have a place in making that decision- which they should not.