The death penalty is a sensitive topic that people have argued about for many years. Nowadays, with the development of science and laws, the death penalty is more and more becoming a type of punishment that should be accepted in the 21st century United States. Some people insist that the death penalty is “barbaric”. Opponents believe that dying on the gallows, electric chairs or gas chamber is inhumane. In my opinion, if criminals do not get the punishment they deserve, that is really barbaric. In modern society, these old and cruel methods of executing the death penalty will be eliminated. We have more civilized ways to carry out the death penalty. For example, many countries in the world who have the death penalty use injection to execute the death penalty. Like Koch mentions in his article,” To give up(the death penalty) and do nothing would be far more barbaric and certainly delay the discovery of an eventual cure.” I totally agree with him about this point. If someone was murdered by another person, and the murderer was at large, isn’t the lack of punishment too barbaric for the victims’ friends and family? Maybe the murders will kill more people because they do not need to pay anything for the crime? What’s worse, if the punishment is not heavy enough, I am worried that more and more people would think that there is no consequence for taking others’ lives based on the cases that sentenced before. Despising the death penalty is despising human lives. In addition, some people question the death penalty because an innocent person might be executed by mistake. First of all, I want to say that nothing is perfect so nothing is 100 percent correct. Mistakes happen but they can be forgiven. Right now the rate of mistake is low enough so that these mistakes are not a concern . According to a study in Forbes magazine, it states that around 4% of prisoners on death row are innocent. I consider this is a possibility of e