Arguments Against Death Row

In this article, it talks how the government carries out executions, not merely to its choice of particular execution methods. and execution method such as lethal injection that can be humane in theory and can be carried out by means of flawed or haphazard procedures that create a foreseeable danger of inflicting severe pain in actual practice. Also, it said in the article that over time in the absence of adequate safeguards, such a method of execution will inevitably involve the infliction of gratuitous pain in some executions. The Inflicting gratuitous pain on a subset of condemned prisoners is no more tolerable than inflicting gratuitous pain on all condemned prisoners.

Supporters of the capital punishment system penalty argue that when enforced, the death penalty saves lives. The fault placed into the opposing side for using the system with new trials to postpone execution. The problem with that argument is that in Florida, a total of twenty-five death row prisoners had been released due to erroneous convictions and were able to prove innocence, not a strong argument when lives are at risk.

In the debate over capital punishment, the opponents argue that capital punishment should not be practiced because it has a civilizing effect and practicing capital punishment has do deterrent effect. On the other side of the debate, the supporters argue that capital punishment should not be abolished because it is just retribution and has a deterrent effect. In this paper, I will argue that capital punishment should not be practiced.

“The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the State of Arkansas could force death row prisoners to take anti-psychotic drugs to make them sane enough to execute ” (Kaczynski, 2011). My position in this case is death row prisoners shouldn’t be forced to take anti-psychotic drugs. “Medicine is supposed to heal people, not prepare them for execution” (Kaczynski, 2011). This is why medicine shouldn’t heal people in order to kill them. Some people may argue that making a person sane is the right thing to do, they will be able to realize the crime they did and the effect it had on their family members.

Thousands of people will attack the death penalty. They will give emotional speeches about the one innocent man or woman who might accidentally get an execution sentence. However, all of these people are forgetting one crucial element. They are forgetting the thousands of victims who die every year by the hands of heartless murderers. There are more murderers out there than people who are wrongly convicted, and that is what we must remember.

In 1940, Lawrence Bittaker, an infamous serial killer from the 1970’s, was born to two unloving parents in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was adopted but eventually left abandoned by his adoptive parents who could not put up with him anymore (Chojnaki, M. & Danz, E. p. 1). By the age of 17, Bittaker dropped out of high school, never to obtain his GED. From the ages of 21 to 26, Bittaker was diagnosed “borderline psychotic” and “basically paranoid” multiple times by different doctors (Chojnaki, M. & Danz, E. p. 1). Bittaker was in and out of jail before murdering five teenage girls in 1979 with a partner, Roy Norris (Chojnaki, M. & Danz, E. p. 2). In 1981, Bittaker was sentenced to death. As of today, he is 70 years old and is still on death row at San Quentin Prison in California (Chojnaki, M. & Danz, E. p. 3).

Another, negative characteristic about capital punishment is pain of death executing a person is occasionally instant, but also slow and painful. Some culture and state does not support capital punishment for this reason alone and certain culture prefer suffering, others do not. One of the methods for executing individuals that can lead with terrible pain is lethal injection. It a type of fatal dose of drug that must be injected by a needle, typically it kills the person by putting the person to sleep and then giving them a heart attack in their sleep. Lethal injection is painful because several possibilities can happen every person as well is different, and the outcome can lead to an individual still being awake at the time when he was injected

Another topic on the Death Penalty is that the Death Penalty puts innocent lives at risk, many people have been sentenced to death row and it wasn 't them who did the crime. Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in the United States in 1976, 138 innocent men and women have been released from death row, including some who came within minutes of execution. Over 138 innocent men and women have been released from death row. It cost to much for the death penalty system. One out of every ten who has been executed in the United States since 1977 is mentally ill. The death penalty is given at random, approximately 15000 to 17000 homicides are committed a year and only 120 people are sentenced to death, that 's less than 1%. In (“The Facts: 13 Reasons to Oppose the Death Penalty 1”). In Missouri, Texas and Virginia investigations have been opened to determine if those states executed innocent men. In (“The High Cost of the Death Penalty 1”). Mistakes will be made in any system which relies upon human testimony for

The death penalty is arguably one of the most controversial issues of our time. Currently, only eighteen states and Washington D.C. have abolished the death penalty. However, the question remains: what does research say for or against the death penalty? In 2009, a study was done that found the statistic that 88% of criminologists believed that capital punishment is not a deterrent to murder (Radelet and Lacock, 2009). The majority of research also points to the conclusion that the journey from arrest, to trial, to execution is extremely expensive, even more so than that of a life sentence. Finally, who considers the people tasked with performing the execution? What about their mental health? Through examining the death penalty’s facts, deterrence,

I have been on death row for twenty-five years now despite the fact that I am innocent. No matter what I say or do, I cannot be freed. It all started one day when I was nonchalantly walking down the street. Out of nowhere, I was tackled and arrested by several policemen for the “murder” of a wealthy businessman. The only evidence they had was low-quality security camera footage of an African-American man attacking this wealthy white man. It clearly wasn’t me, but that didn’t stop the team of plush lawyers his family hired from putting me on death row. The lawyer provided by the court didn’t stand a chance against them, and most likely in the five other cases he was handling at the time. It wasn’t his fault, but it is unfair that I only have

“Why do we kill people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong”, what makes us different from those individuals who we execute? Where do we get the right to take someone's life anymore than they? Many individuals have been executed without physical evidence, how are we to know that the individual is actually guilty? Till this day, there are thirty-one states with the death penalty and nineteen without.

The protection of inmates against being wrongly convicted and sentenced to death has come to the state level of government. There are many studies that seem to prove that a large number of prisoners have been found not guilty because of DNA testing. The American people are much more aware of DNA and how it can prove someone guilty or innocent. They are inclined to error on the side of not the side of not putting a man or women on death row when they may be innocent. They certainly believe in the appeals process, which can be long. When Congress voted to authorize the Patriot Act, many people thought that in may slow the appeals process for death row inmates to a crawl. In 2006, the worry was that the Patriot Act could keep private attorneys from even taking on death penalty cases leaving thousands with no representation. The House Representative’s Innocence Protection Act which passed with a vote of 357 to 67, put safeguards in place to protect innocent people by help to the state and federal officials in talking on crime investigations and using the DNA process. The Senate is also looking to use the IPA to give prisoners access to DNA testing and for getting better attorneys for them. The Innocent Protection Act has receive support from both the Democrats and Republicans in the House of Representatives and the United States

The biggest issue against the death penalty deals with the high probability of the wrongful conviction of innocent people. As stated before, 140 people have been removed from death row after additional evidence was found and proved their wrongful conviction (“U.S. Death Penalty Facts”,

Yes, the death penalty should be abolished for the worst crimes. Life without parole is better, for many reasons. I’m against the death penalty not because of sympathy for criminals, but because it doesn’t reduce crime, it spreads the suffering of families of murder victims that costs a whole lot more than life in prison, and, worst of all, risks of killings innocent people. The death penalty is very selectively enforced. The death penalty has no beneficial effects, and no one can determine when it’s your time to die.

Life is sacred. This is an ideal that the majority of people can agree upon to a certain extent. For this reason taking the life of another has always been considered the most deplorable of crimes, one worthy of the harshest available punishment. Thus arises one of the great moral dilemmas of our time. Should taking the life of one who has taken the life of others be considered an available punishment? Is a murderer's life any less sacred than the victim's is? Can capital punishment, the death penalty, execution, legal murder, or whatever a society wishes to call it, be morally justifiable? The underlying question in this issue is if any kind of killing, regardless of reason, can be accepted. In this