Please Read This Book

A book never made me physically ill until "Dead Man Walking." I don't know how anyone can condemn another human being to death in this fucked up system of ours. I don't know how you live with that guilt - especially when the person may be innocent, which happens far too often. And the execution of a single innocent person is, in my book, far too often. Killing someone proves nothing. Evidence shows that the existence of the death penalty doesn't change the nature of criminal behavior. Yes, the family of the victim cries for justice, but what of the family of the murderer? Do they deserve to suffer for their son's crimes? Their mother's?

Writing this term paper is going to rip my heart out of my chest, I swear.