Death Penalty

By reading some of the passages in Chapter 8, it shows how the death penalty is prohibited in some countries. First off, The United States is the only western democracy that still allows the death penalty. On the contrary, there are a lot of countries that oppose the death penalty. The European Union, consisting of about 27 European countries, opposes the death penalty. Referring to the scriptural passage "who taught us to not to return hate for hate and evil for evil", makes most of these countries oppose the death penalty. A lot of the citizens in Europe have values and principles. Human dignity is a shared value and principle amongst the heritage of the European Union. The punishment to kill a human because of his wrongful actions has revealed itself as a denial of human dignity. So by allowing the death penalty would be going against the majority of the European’s principles and religious views.