Critical Analysis of Edward Koch's Essay, "Death and Justice: How Capital Punishment Affirms Life"

In Edward I. Koch's essay, "Death and Justice: How Capital Punishment Affirms Life", readers view the opinions Koch has toward the death penalty in today's world. Koch reviews a variety of excuses to abolish the death penalty. He argues the importance of the death penalty, as well as, argues excuses of the death penalty opponents. He argues the ethics and politics towards the importance and support of the death penalty. In the following essay readers …

…I. Koch was a former mayor his views toward the death penalty cannot be totally supported by his essay "Death and Justice: How Capital Punishment Affirms Life". Overall, I felt that the essay was just based on Hammurabi's Code, which states "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth". Koch should look into what his arguments are next time instead of just trying to find support for what he is trying to say.