First of all, Capital Punishment should be discontinued because it can imperil the life of the crimeless falsely under suspicion of a felony they did not commit. When condemning the guiltless to death there is no return, no coming back from the abhorrent deed, no way of taking back the life wrongly took. This is the difference between sentencing one to life in prison and dooming one to the death sentence. For example, there is the case of Timothy McVeigh, who was a man convicted of bombing the Alfred Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. He was found guilty by the state, and condemned to death. However when the defense testified, his father, William McVeigh remembered,”...he was a good student, although he never got the grades I thought he was capable of.” He also told the jury that after Timothy returned home from service in the military during the Persian Gulf War in 1991, “ He seemed to be happy.” The defense then showed a picture of the father and son together smiling. “ To me, it’s a happy Tim. It’s the Tim I remember most in my life.” The senior McVeigh then concluded his statement by saying he loved,” the Tim in the courtroom” and wanted him to stay alive. McVeigh’s mother later stated she “still can’t believe to this very day he could have caused this devastation.” With too many unanswered questions in the case, she said, adding: “ he is not the monster he has been portrayed as.” She knows him as “a loving son and a happy child.. He was a child any mother could be proud ,” https://books.google.com/books. So if both of Timothy’s parents thought he wasn’t capable of placing a bomb in a building, and more than 20 people said they “loved him like a brother,” how could he have been proven guilty? Even if he is now proclaimed not guilty, there is no going back and telling McVeigh he is innocent, because he was executed June 11, 2001.