Capital Punishment is Murder

Capital punishment has been a controversial issue that still exists in America today. Capital punishment is a law passed by the government to punish any individual that has been convicted of committed a heinous crime. The death penalty has been a method used throughout history as punishment for criminals. The punishment also known as the death penalty is a scheduled execution, which would be done with lethal injection. The reason why this punishment is chosen is because when crimes are committed that shock the conscience, the immediate emotional reaction is to retaliate with severe punishment (Schnurbush 2016). The death penalty is debated when it is brought up, opinions vary from one group of people to another, one side says the execution is murder, and the other saying that it is justice being done. Each side presents valid arguments to why people should be for it or against it; people’s opinions are formed by personal beliefs.

Murder is the intentional killing of one person by another.  Capital punishment does just that.  It takes the life of one person and uses another, "the executioner," to do it.  In the state of Indiana, the warden of the state prison acts as "the executioner."  The killing takes place before the hour of sunrise on a fixed day.  The warden, "executioner," flips a switch that sends electrical current into the body of the convicted prisoner, thus ending the prisoner's life.  What happens during the execution is one

The death penalty is the punishment of execution, administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime (law.cornell.edu, 2015). The first Congress of the United States authorized the federal death penalty on June 25, 1790 (deathpenalty.org, 2011). The death penalty can also be referred to as capital punishment, however capital punishment also includes a sentence to life in prison, as opposed to strictly executions. A convict can be sentenced to death by various methods including lethal injection, electrocution, gas chamber, firing squad, and hanging. After the death penalty was established, many debates have arisen arguing that these methods violate several of the United States’ Amendments. Select cases have been accused of violating the Sixth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments. It is important to note that the judiciary goes through a series of processes prior to deciding a sentence for a capital crime. Many factors influencing the verdict include proportional analysis, individualized sentencing, method of execution, and classes of people not eligible of the death penalty. This paper will discuss brief descriptions of the methods used for executions, economical issues, the Supreme Court’s opinion regarding the death penalty, as well as important factors that make up the proportional analysis, individual sentencing process, method used, and determining classes of people who are not eligible for the death penalty.

“Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect,” stated John F. Kennedy at Berlin on June 26th, 1963. Kennedy is most certainly correct in this subject because no government is ever “perfect.” There is always room for improvement in government and sometimes there are instances in which a law needs to be changed or repealed. Almost everyday, it seems, that there are outrageous crimes being committed and the criminals are being jailed rightfully so. Sometimes, a judge would decide that that criminal should receive the death penalty or capital punishment. Capital punishment has evolved over centuries from the ancient method of “an eye for an eye”, to beheadings, lynchings, electric chairs, etc. While most of

Prison holds Millions of Americans everyday. Whether it be for theft, murder, or drugs, the morals of these people imprisoned have been corrupted and they have chosen to break the law. American citizens have always been faced with these questions: Is the death penalty morally right to execute? Is death penalty breaking the eighth Amendment? Depending on the person, they may agree with these questions or disagree. Even though times in America have changed tremendously, The death penalty should still be used as form of punishment and the crimes for life sentences should be reduced.

The death penalty has been around for centuries. It dates back to when Hammurabi had his laws codified; it was “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth”. Capital punishment in America started when spies were caught, put on trial and hung. In the past and still today people argue that, the death penalty is cruel, unusual punishment and should be illegal. Yet many people argue that it is in fact justifiable and it is not cruel and unusual. Capital punishment is not cruel and unusual; the death penalty is fair and there is evidence that the death penalty deters crime. 
A big part of abolitionist’s argument is that the death penalty is not humane. They pull in Amendment 8, “…nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” What the victim went though was indeed “cruel and unusual punishments’.” The murderers’ death is not cruel. The people will demand justice for what he or she has done (Bidinotto 19). Hanging and the electric chair are topics more reasonable to argue, but now because of lethal injection capital punishment has become more humane. The death penalty is not barbaric, the pain and agony that the victim went through is barbaric. Abolitionists were very upset in 1996 when rapist and murderer John Albert Taylor was executed by firing squad; they said his death was barbaric (Feder 32). Charla King, the poor 11-year-old girl he raped and strangled with a telephone cord, her death was barbaric! It makes no sense to think that John

Capital punishment is defined as the legally authorized killing of someone as punishment for a crime. There are many arguments that are for and against the death penalty. Majority of these arguments contain broad categories ranging from morality to attorney quality. Although most would support that capital punishment is the closest penalty for murder it is still used unequally across the prison populations. Capital punishment is a practice that the judicial system should abolish for the future generations.

After a death roll inmate finishes his last meal, five officers take him to the scary,slight execution chamber near the inmate’s cell. He is strapped down within fifteen seconds, and he says his last words before he is injected to die. His family and the victim’s family watch him die “instantly” as it should be, yet it has been over six minutes since he was injected. Then, he starts to thrash against the gurney and his heart finally stops. Death penalty is killing hundreds of people due to people’sheinous actions. Today, lethal injection is one of the most popular methods that death penalty is killing people in America. However, death penalty does not deter crime since there are always new inmates. Offenders on death roll should deserve to pay consequences without unusual punishment like the Constitution says. Killing the murderer does not make a difference because the family’s victims will not get their deceased family member back. We all know that there is crime every day, so why kill the inmates when they can pay their consequences in a prison guarded by correctional officers? People who support capital punishment want revenge not justice. Death penalty should be abolished because it is extremely expensive, it is inhumane, and it is killing innocent victims.

The death penalty which is also known as capital punishment is the punishment of a crime by execution. (Washington Post 2008: e.data) Such extreme sentences are awarded for very serious crimes such as premeditated murder, multiple murders, repeated crimes, rape and murder and so on, where

Justice Leader J. Shaw, Florida Supreme Court, wrote, “The electric chair with its attendant smoke and flames and blood and screams, it’s a death penalty plus. So why do some states still use the electric chair? Nebraska and Alabama only use the electric chair, while most states give the inmates a choice of methods. Most executions when completed the room smells like burning flesh and there are even an occasional smoke and blood. This method has been argued as inhumane because when the execution is taking place the brain is boiling at 135-145 degrees. How is that humane? Vetinary associations no longer use electricity to euthanize animals yet we do and shouldn’t humans be treated just as good if not better than animals? (Weinstein, Henry)Not to mention the generator of the electric chair is suppost to be the most obscene and horrific sound you’ve ever heard. As Jefferson says in A Lesson Before Dying, “I heard two jolts but I never looked up, I will never forget the sound of that generator as long as I live on this earth.”(Gaines, 254) These chairs have also taken many innocent lives so there is absolutely no reason why they should still be alive.

The argument for unusual and cruel punishment in the context of execution by lethal injection is that the person suffers pain in the process of being killed. This stems, for example, from the fact that an inmate that is being

Cruel and Unusual Punishment, according to merriam-webster.com, is a punishment that is very harsh and too severe for the crime. The Eighth Amendment prohibits the federal government from imposing or inflicting cruel and unusual punishment, stating that "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishment inflicted." This meaning, the punishment should not be too severe. There are nineteen states without the death penalty, while thirty-one that still have it including California, Florida, and Texas. There have been cases, in these states, in which the criminal sentenced death suffered once administered the most common protocol to date used on death row which was lethal injection. One man, Charles

Capital Punishment is not a fair choice to do and it violates the human right to life. Everyone is born with the human right to life, even those who commit any type of crime; sentencing a person to death and executing them violates that right ( ). Just because a murderer killed someone, it does not mean their life should be taken away for punishment. It is generally accepted that people should not be punished for their actions unless they are guilty ( ). Whether the person is guilty is guilty or not they should not be given a deadly punishment. He inmates should just be locked up in prison and die from natural causes. When the prisoner becomes executed it is painful and cruel.

Many people think that he death penalty is a unusual and cruel punishment and others think “If you do the crime you do the crime”. Both sides have been fighting over this topic for centuries to the present day. Today’s population stands on 44% against the death penalty, and 41% for the death penalty. Many Americans are for the death penalty because it breaks our 5th amendment, innocent people die., and sometimes it doesn’t work so inmates are in pain when it is suppose to be a peaceful death.

Capital punishment is a custom in which prisoners are executed in accordance with judicial practice when they are convicted of committing a “capital crime.” Capital crimes are crimes considered so atrocious that they should