Desire of Revenge Blinds Human to Humanity and Justice

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Another reason not to sentence Tsarnaev with death penalty is equality. Many people insist an equal sentence for Tsarnaev and here i agree with their point. However, Death penalty is not the equal one. Some might resist this idea and they probably would put it in an analogical situation ; if we were the victim’s family. I would prefer to have him live in prison for the whole of his life. Plainly, putting him on death row does not raise the death people who he killed, and it’s not equal. As the analogy if we were the family of the victim, we might feel profound pain for losing people who we love so much, but he would just die without any pain and suffering if being given the death sentence.

Bill and Denise Richards, parents of 8-year-old Martin Richards, the youngest victim of the tragedy refused the death punishment for Tsarnaev. Through their own words in The Boston Globe they said “We can never replace what was taken from us, but we can continue to get up every morning and fight another day. As long as the defendant is in the spotlight, we have no choice but to live a story told on his terms, not ours. The minute the defendant fades from our newspapers and TV screens is the minute we begin the process of rebuilding our lives and our family.” From their words I can imagine their feeling of losing their son, the deep sorrow, the grief they feel. They know if sentencing Tsarnaev with the death punishment would never bring their son back, moreover the punishment just would help him get away shortly of the messy he made while they need long time to heal the pain.

The most crucial things is morality and humanity. I totally agree with the idea, due to the fact that Tsarnaev and what he did, that is immoral and cruel. It is not his right to take someone’s life. However, if we impose the death penalty for him, there is no difference between us and him. Therefore, i put a simple question “Is it appropriate to kill somebody even though he appallingly killed more than one innocent person ?”. We are only the same way if we support the death penalty for him.Vincent Warren, the Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in his article “The Death Penalty Is a Human Rights Abuse” stated "We are the makers of murderers if we do it." Here he emphasize that we are the real murderer if we impose the punishment. Even, it sounds kind of hypocritical if we ‘kill’ somebody even though the reason is the heinous acts of murder he committed. He also stated “The death penalty diminishes the humanity of everyone it touches.”.

Not only the suspect, when we support the capital punishment and put the defendant on the death row, we are as though not being inhumane, insensate, and senseless.

At the end, capital punishment, perhaps, is not really useless. However, it does not bring much positive impact into society, into our life. Since it cost a lot of money, it also can not guarantee safety for society and does not heal the pain and sorrow that was left by the villain. The reasons why Death Punishment is not the best solution, it is likewise not the best punishment for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. We should not act as inhumane just to do things that are clearly not bring profit and positive impact. I understand how we all feel for the tragedy. However we should not have let our selves be controlled by grudge and emotion. I belive if we are able to keep our mind calm and opened, we will be able to see the appropriate and step to take. The things we only need to do are let what has happened passed away and focus to take new step forward.

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Works Cited

Judge Arthur L. Alarcón and Paula M. Mitchell, Costs of Capital Punishment in California: Will Voters Choose Reform this November ?, 46 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. S1 (2012). Web. 2 Dec. 2015

Vincent Warren, “The Death Penalty Is a Human Rights Abuse”, Huffington Post, 25 May 2011, Web. 2 Dec 2015

Bankoff, Caroline. “Parents of Child Killed in Boston Marathon Bombing Don’t Want Tsarnaev to Face the Death Penalty”. New York News and Politics. Daily Intelligencer.18 April 2015. Web 4 Dec 2015

D. Vergano. "NRC: Death penalty effect research 'fundamentally flawed'," USA Today, April 18, 2012. Web 2 Dec 2015

D. Nagin and J. Pepper, "Deterrence and the Death Penalty," Committee on Law and Justice at the National Research Council, April 2012

“Deterrence and the Death Penalty”. Report Brief. Death Penalty