Death Penalty: Should Mentally Ill People Be Exempt...

Should mentally ill people be exempt from Death sentence?
"The death penalty is not the answer to the problem of violence committed by persons with severe mental illness” (Sheffer 1). There are people that believe that anyone, regardless of their health condition, should be put to the death penalty if they have committed a major crime. The opinion varies between everyone. For instance, some people believe that everyone should be punished by death. On the other hand, others believe it is acceptable for everyone but mentally ill people to be punished by death.
And so the question arises, “Should mentally ill people be exempt from the death penalty?” On a personal value, mentally ill people, or anyone else for that matter, should not be sentenced …show more content…
All it really brings is revenge. Between the rage of what the person did, and your emotional thoughts, at first you might want that person dead, but at the end of the day, once the person is dead, does your grief go away? In addition, death penalty can also make us humans seem nonhuman. When thinking of killing someone for their faults, we’re thinking just like animals, only worse. If you come to think about it, do you really see a completely sane person, someone's who’s in their right mind, go around killing people for their wrongful acts? Once again addressing the article “The Death Penalty” Pat Webdale stated, “Killing another person never brings back the person you lost, and it's like doubledoing the crime” (4). A much better measurement would be to put the person to longterm imprisonment.
Given these points, it can be concluded that punishing someone by death, even more so a mentally ill person, is an irreasonable thought. Sentencing someone to death is just a way of making us look irresponsible, as all we’re trying to do is getting rid of the
“problem” once and for all, instead of attempting to fix it. As you have seen, giving someone such sentence is just a way of saying that the person has no hope or no

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