If your own flesh and blood were brutally murdered, would you want the culprit to live the rest of their life in a cell, or be forced to meet the same fate your innocent loved one did? This is the question that former New York City mayor, Edward I. Koch, addresses in his 1985 article, “Death and Justice”, which was printed in The New Republic, a magazine that generally publishes articles dealing with controversial political issues. …showed first 75 words of 1246 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1246 total…correlation with a strong tone and a non-offensive, yet straightforward style. The result is an argument that reaches even the most die-hard anti-capital punishment fanatic and strikes a nerve of reason within their brain. This culminates in the last paragraph that reads: “It is hard to imagine anything worse than being murdered while neighbors do nothing. But something worse exists. When those same neighbors shrink back from justly punishing the murderer, the victim dies twice.”