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Capital Punishment, also known as the Death Penalty, has been a part of the United State’s justice system for the majority of the country’s existence. Today, 31 out of the 50 states still recognize the death penalty as a viable option when dealing with high profile crimes, most notably murder and sexual assault. While many people argue that the death penalty should be made illegal, there is also widespread support in favor of keeping the death penalty, leaving the nation divided on the issue. Both sides of the argument possess valid evidence that supports their claims, but in the end, the arguments in favor of the death penalty are noticeably stronger. The death penalty is an appropriate sentence that should continue to be allowed in the

Why is the death penalty used as a means of punishment for crime? Is this just a way to solve the nations growing problem of overcrowded prisons, or is justice really being served? Why do some view the taking of a life morally correct? These questions are discussed and debated upon in every state and national legislature throughout the country. Advantages and disadvantages for the death penalty exist, and many members of the United States, and individual State governments, have differing opinions. Yet it seems that the stronger arguments, and evidence such as cost effectiveness, should lead the common citizen to the opposition of Capital Punishment.

Admittedly, opponents of the death penalty argue that it is a form of torture and inhumane. However, the

     Secondly, I believe the execution methods the death penalty utilizes make it cruel. In the US, there are five methods of execution currently in use. These methods are: electrocution, lethal injection, the gas chamber, the firing squad (used only in Utah), and hanging (Bailey). Problems with capital punishment methods stem as far back as the ritual itself. The eighth amendment, which is supposed to protect its citizens from torturous treatment and punishment at the hand of law enforcers, lets the enforcers inflict these methods which are cruel, slow and painful upon the person being executed.

     The death penalty is absolutely outrageous. There is no real reason that the government should feel that it has the right to execute people. Capital punishment is murder just as much as the people being executed murdered. The is no need for the death penalty and it needs to be abolished. It goes against the Constitution which states that there will be no cruel and unusual punishment. There is nothing crueler than killing a person.

In the United States, the first execution took place in 1608. Back then, it was not considered inhumane to implement a death sentence. Now, however, many claim that it is inhumane. Is it really inhumane though? If a serial killer was finally caught after killing many people, is it inhumane to sentence him to death row? No. It is not inhumane; what the serial killer did was inhumane. If a person murders another person and it can be proved that the suspect is one hundred percent guilty, then it should be allowed to order capital punishment. In the United States today, capital punishment is carried out by lethal injection. All of the thirty-two states who still have capital punishment

For centuries capital punishment has been used to “punish” criminals for a severe enough crime that they committed. It dates back to hundreds of years ago and has been enacted in many different countries, some that still have it today. Death penalty/capital punishment is the punishment of death an offender receives after having a court hearing and being convicted of a crime (ProCon.org, 2008). Once someone receives a death penalty sentence, they go on death row awaiting their execution. For a very long time, the controversy regarding whether or not the death penalty is ethical or just has been a topic of debate. I believe that the

The death penalty is a cruel and inhuman death, “no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”. Death penalty violates the right to life. (2004)

The death of one human by another is inhuman. The death penalty is from a perspective that the idea of killing of a person

What does humanity consider to be inhumane punishment? When being executed by the government and inmate being in pain is seen as unfair punishment. This kind of mistake has happened in communities at an alarming rate recently, scaring family members of those who are on trial for the death penalty. Killing people takes our citizens, and the process of it requires multiple workers and lots of drugs. On top of that, holding someone prisoner for life costs less than killing an inmate. The British Medical Association didn’t want to do lethal injection because they thought that they would not be able to inject somebody that was resisting the injection(The medical basis for lethal injection). Lethal injection is bad because it wastes a lot of

The U.S. Constitution and Supreme Court deemed that capital punishment is acceptable when the severity of the sentence was appropriate to the crime. Thirty Seven states still allow the death penalty to be carried out. The systems process is not consistent throughout the states. The states need to become more efficient in order to have the death sentence to be carried out. It’s not the case of people abusing the system, but the implementation of a broken system that drags out the length of actually carrying out the sentence. Give and take from a

Death. The final frontier-or is that space? Either way, we don’t exactly know what is on the other side. Maybe that’s why there is so much controversy swirling around the death penalty. Whenever you start to talk about the death penalty, people begin to become very serious, as well they should. The death penalty is almost like a type of fine against those who commit a capital offense, and the currency used to pay the fine? Their lives. So all in all, murder is answered with murder. So what constitutes the lawful demise of an individual by death penalty? Well, in Texas, a capital offense is any criminal

The death penalty is not only inhumane but too easy for these criminals that deserve it. The life sentence is swift, severe and certain punishment according to The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU, 2015). Sentencing someone to die in jail is a pragmatic alternative to public safety along with murder victims’ families to still provide them with justice. The death penalty can be consider the easy way out. Being only about 20 minutes of terror. The life sentence gets more justice out of the criminal, they have to sit in a cell for the

Is the death penalty inhuman? In my opinion, no. You made a decision to take someone else’s life, you should lose yours. The act of taking someone’s life should have the highest consequence. To me, paying the ultimate price is the only way for justice. The death penalty should always be the sentence given to someone who takes the life of someone else.

There are many controversial points of view on the death penalty in America’s society. Is the death penalty socially correct? Is it just? The death penalty is an execution sentence that a person convicted of a capital crime must face. A person can only be sentenced to death in 33 states (deathpenatly.org). There have been as of April 1, 2012, 3,170 death row inmates in the Unites States history, with an exception of the two inmates in New Mexico and eleven in Connecticut that remain on the death row due to the law not being made retrospective to these inmates. The controversy whether the death penalty is just or unjust has been a debate in America for many years. There have