The Privilege of the Poor By: This country is founded centuries ago on the beliefs of a God fearing society. When our laws were first coming about was the “Eye for an eye” attitude taken into consideration? Did our founding fathers look upon the senseless acts of killing another human being as being so bad that we were willing to take the life of the murderer? What happened to the rights of the murderer because …showed first 75 words of 1461 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1461 total…human’s civil rights, is not cruel and inhuman, is not racially biased, is not full of unfair and arbitrary proceedings, and isn’t more costly than life behind bars. A human does not loose his/her rights just because he/she committed a crime, especially the right to live. How can someone view a prisoner, who is a human being, as nothing more than a caged animal waiting to be sent to the slaughterhouse?