"Death Penalty Song" genre: Folk Punk
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	This is a song I wrote in my senior year of high school for a peace studies class taught by renowned peace activist and former Washington Post columinst Colman McCarthy. Great class, great guy. Check out his Center For Teaching Peace in DC.
	Lyrics You tell me not to forget the victim's story Well excuse me if I just sound boring But your blatant hypocrisy is bothering me On this country's currency In God We Trust is what we read but I don't see how God could advocate such violence We got to put this barbarism behind us now. So let's kill the death penalty and save humanity kill the death penalty stop the insanity your obsession with retribution leaves no room for redemption leaves no chance for forgiving blinded by your hate you can't think great and eye for an eye a killing for for a killing a death for a death is not the way to go So stop the executions Stop the Murderings Abolish This unncessary suffering we kill the poor who can't afford to pay a decent lawyer with no defense they got no chance their innocence will falter Arbitrary and Inconsistent is the system that applies the death penalty with no sure way to ensure fairness it doeson't work why can't you see instead of focusing on punitive justice we need to work some more on restorative justice or even better yet some preventative justice the system we have now is far from justice so why don't you realize that there's no need to support the ways of violence you've heard it before and yeah i'll tell you again that life is the most precious thing in this world.

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