The United States of American is supposed to be the land of the free, however, we currently have over 1.8 million citizen incarcerated with 3,000 waiting to be executed on death row (statisicbrain.com).

Many have called for the removal of the death penalty, citing it is inhumane, barbaric, and the legal injections given sometimes prolongs the death causing massive pain. During Pope Frances visit to the United States, he stated: "to advocate at different levels for the global abolition of the death penalty" (Vogue, 2015).

So is there a human way to execute our citizens or should we remove the death penalty completely. Finally, and more importantly, as Theologians, what does God's Word say about the taking of scared life. In a 250-350 word document, complete the following:

USE THE ABOVE PARAGRAPH AS THE TOPIC

1. Establish the title for your paper and write a thesis statement that succinctly and clearly explains the purpose of your paper.

2. Develop a bulleted descriptive outline that clearly demonstrates how your paper will be divided. In the outline, indicate how you plan to introduce your paper (one sentence), the two or three sections in the body of the paper (two or three bullets with explanatory notes), and how you will conclude (one sentence).