Death Penalty: Violates Our God-Given Right to Life

The Declaration of Independence is not a viable document today because the "unalienable rights" that serves as its basis for discussion are presently compromised and sometimes abolished altogether by our own government. A clear example of this fact is when the right of "life" is completely taken away by giving a person accused of murder gets the death penalty at his trial.
The justice system, as well as most people today in the US, believe that we should punish those who commit murder by murdering them also, or in nicer, less incriminating words; by giving them the death penalty. …