Elissa Wilcox- Thou shalt not kill

I think that one of the purposes of the film was to bring to light a different view of capital punishment than is usual. Neither the boy who committed the murder, nor the taxi driver who was murdered had any redeemable qualities. This made it hard to relate to either person and in the end it was the boy that gained the most of my sympathy. The reason that the boy was so troubled was because his sister was accidentally killed when he was drinking with his friend and that led to a series of bad decisions. He left home and suggested to the lawyer that he would have stayed if his sister was still alive which would have been a more stable situation and therefore he may not have killed the taxi driver. Although morality issues should not be affected by the character of a person they are. Whether or not someone likes another person will effect how they treat them. Because this is the death of the taxi driver was not as terrible, emotionally, as if he had been someone that was likable. The boy did not commit the murder in a way that would hide his identity and did not seem to care whether he was caught or not. There was intention and death, but this does not answer the question of whether or not the boy deserved death himself.