Editorial

Article by: Kevin

In the story the apothecary sold Roger poison. It was illegal for him to sell the poison, and he would have been given the death penalty if he was caught. Also he knew that Roger was going to use the poison to hurt someone but he still sold it to him anyway. Roger did take advantage of the apothecary’s financial trouble, but he still let roger take advantage of him. He let roger kill himself just so he could get some extra money.

The apothecary might have been able to stop roger from killing himself. If he just tried to talk to him about why he wanted the poison then he could of tried to talk him out of it. Instead he just minded his own business and took the money and didn’t bother trying to find out what his poison was being used for.

The apothecary knew what the penalty was for selling poison, (death) but he did it anyway. Now roger is dead and it is partially the apothecary’s fault. So the only rational thing to do would be to give the apothecary the death penalty. Also not enough was being done to stop these apothecaries from selling poison to anybody with money. This apothecary had poison on display for crying out loud. So to make sure that this never happens again the police should be able to do random raids on apothecary store and arrest anyone in possession of poison.

Now there are three dead people (Roger, Julia, and Paris.) All of these deaths could have prevented if it wasn’t for the apothecary. All though this man never killed anybody himself he is still responsible for these deaths. For this reason this man should be given the death penalty. It is definitely the right thing to do.