Capital Punishment.....Is It Justified?

Have you ever heard, I saw you last night on Grand Avenue at seven p.m., but you weren’t there at that time? Well what if the same person thought they saw you shoot someone? This is exactly what happened to Shaka Sankofa. Sankofa was put to death based on the testimony of one witness, who identified him from her car in a parking lot, forty feet away, in the darkness of night, in …showed first 75 words of 885 total…

…showed last 75 words of 885 total…it is economically and racially prejudice. The death penalty does not treat people equally, and innocent people have died because of it. I hope you see, as I do, that the death penalty has no real significant value. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Works Cited “Legal Lynching.” Essence Magazine September 2000: page 236. “States With No Death Penalty Share Lower Homicide Rates.” New York Times 22 September 2000. Newsweek. 3 July 2000. Vol. 136 Issue 1, page 30. “Capital Punishment.” World Book Encyclopedia. 1973 edition. www.deathpenalty.org/