When we are violent, whether as individuals or as society, our very souls are assaulted, poisoned and wounded. Capital punishment is also a lie. No one is restored. No good is created. It creates only more victims and more lust for vengeance.
Capital punishment is used in an arbitrary and discriminatory way.
The poor and people of color who murder white people are the ones who end up on death row. Rather than diminishing the violence, the death penalty contributes to the violence. It perpetuates the cycle of violence. When the state kills, killing is condoned as an acceptable and effective method of imposing one's will, of responding to conflict, or trying to get what you want. The death penalty is the state's ultimate sanction of violence as a means to achieve ends.