Death Penalty Needs to Stop

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/31/why-the-death-penalty-needs-to-die.html

This article talks about how the death penalty needs to stop. People think that it is expensive, ineffective, and most of all, deeply offensive to ideals of truly limited government. They think the death penalty needs to die because at the end of it, you’re just killing the person who committed the crime of killing. They also think that the death penalty is just a waste of money and has no effect on murder rates, and worst of all it is tossed to innocent people. So someone may have been sentenced to the death penalty even when they didn’t commit the crime or have gotten framed.

http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/death-penalty-countries-continue-execute-people-mental-and-intellectual-disabilities-2014-10-10

This article talks about how countries around the world continue to execute people with mental and intellectual disabilities. People around the world have witnessed people being executed for the wrong reasons and people with mental and intellectual disabilities, which is a clear violation of international standards. “International standards clearly require that those suffering