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arguments against it.
(1) It is a penalty that cannot be undone, once' it is carried out. Mis- 1 takes in judgment by juries as to guilty are unknown to have happened. Also unbalanced people will sometimes confess themselves guilty of crime which they are quite innocent of. An illustration of the unjust conviction of a man for murder is supplied by the case of Andrew Toth, who served 20 years of a life sentence in the Western Penitentary of Pennsylvania for a crime he had not committed.
(2) Its motive is revenge; Revenge as a reason for punishment has lost its power in most reflective minds; especially has it lost its power in the minds of Christians. Jesus threw out the motive of revenge when he said, You have heard it said to you of old, an eye for an eye and a tooth, for a tooth, but I say unto you. . . then Jesus gave the law of love to replace it. The highest act of love is forgiveness. Forgiveness is the opposite of revenge. Therefore, reform and) rehabilitation must take the place.of revenge in our treatment of criminals.
(3) The death penalty is not reformative. As a matter of fact, capital punishment indicates the impossibility of reform. All avenues to reform are closed if one receives the death penalty. No one can say with certainty whether the possibility of reform exists in a man or no., no matter how hardened he may be. Only God knows; so the life of a criminal must be left in God's hands to take away.
(4) Capital punishment is not reterrent in effect. In a study made it was found that there are no more serious crimes committed in the states
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