Shalom Summary

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Alex Shalom believed in abolishing the death penalty, he gave his reasons for on why he believed it should be abolished in his article titled, Abolish the Death Penalty. It this article, he makes it clear that he is against the death penalty. Shalom’s first point is that many other people in the United States believed that the death penalty should be abolished. He later argued as his second point, that no other country like the United States practiced capital punishment, so he believed we should not practice it either. Shalom’s third point is that the death penalty is the same as imprisonment. He next pointed out that Michigan’s murder rate is lower than Illinois, even though Illinois uses the death penalty and Michigan has not in the last 150 years. Shalom’s fifth point on why the death penalty should be abolished was that capital punishment can easily cost twice as much as a lifetime imprisonment. His next point was that some people believe the victim’s family would have peace of mind knowing that justice has been served because the murderer has now been murdered. He later states that the government does not handle other crimes like they do by murdering a murderer. Shalom shares that for an example, the government does not rape a rapist. Shalom began to talk about how there is a chance that an innocent person could be executed, just like in the Salem Witch Trials in Massachusetts. He says that they eventually realized that would they had done was wrong. Alex Shalom’s final point is that having the death penalty makes the United States look hypocritical. Both, the United States and Iran, have the Death Penalty and use it for criminals under the age of eighteen, Shalom argues. His point was that we are just like Iran even though we are going to war with them, which makes us hypocrites. Shalom ends the article by asking when are we going to
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