Charles Brooks Death Penalty Research Paper

According to a dozen recent studies an execution does save lives. For each inmate execution it is shown by studies that three to eighteen murders are prevented. By that it shows a big number that is getting prevented by murders.

In “The Death Penalty” (1985), David Bruck argues that the death penalty is injustice and that it is fury rather than justice that compels others to “demand that murderers be punished” by death. Bruck relies on varies cases of death row inmates to persuade the readers against capital punishment. His purpose is to persuade readers against the death penalty in order for them to realize that it is inhuman, irrational, and that “neither justice nor self-preservation demands that we kill men whom we have already imprisoned.” Bruck does not employ an array of devices but he does employ some such as juxtaposition, rhetorical questions, and appeals to strengthen his argument. He establishes an informal relationship with his audience of

Throughout the history of man there has always existed a sort of rule pertaining to retribution for just and unjust acts. For the just came rewards, and for the unjust came punishments. This has been a law as old as time. One philosophy about the treatment of the unjust is most controversial in modern time and throughout our history; which is is the ethical decision of a death penalty. This controversial issue of punishment by death has been going on for centuries. It dates back to as early as 399 B.C.E., to when Socrates was forced to drink hemlock for his “corruption of the youth” and “impiety”.

The Death Penalty in America has been a talked about issue for some time now. Americans have their own opinions on the death penalty. Some people feel it is too harsh of a punishment, some believe if you take a life you should lose your life. I myself do not believe in the death penalty. To me it goes totally against what Americas was built on God. Even though over the last fifteen years or so we have slowly drifted away from “In God We Trust”. Looking at the death penalty in a whole it was never something that the United States came up with. It was adopted from Britain. (Bohm, 1999)The first ever recorded death penalty in United States history was that of Captain George Kendall in 1608. He was executed for being a spy. The death of Captain Kendall started a chain of other colonies jumping on board for the death penalty. In some colonies they were sentencing people to death for petty crimes, such as steeling, or trading with Indians. Over the years after the death penalty would be reformed and revamped numerous of times. Until it was only used when murder or treason occurred. Matter of fact Pennsylvania was the first state

Emmaleigh Elizabeth Barringer was a 10-month-old infant who was nearly dismantled and pronounced brain dead from a 32-year-old Benjamin Taylor in West Virginia who had viciously raped the infant. The 10 month old infant later died from her injuries. Which means that he must have assaulted the infant not only vaginally but anally causing the child’s organs to shut down and causing massive blood loss and trauma to the brain stem, she was pronounced brain dead after the crime, and later pronounced dead. West Virginia is one of 18 states in the union which do not have capital punishment. The Mountain State abolished the death penalty in 1965. That must be nice for the malicious infant rapist and murderer. Pleading temporary insanity nor life in

The death penalty is a capital punishment that is put into effect for major crimes. The death penalty is a very controversial topic in the United States and throughout the world. There was a time period were the death penalty was banned for about four years in 1972-1976. Many feel that the death penalty is justice because it is retribution toward criminals who have committed heinous crimes. However the death penalty is inhumane and should be abolished in the United States.

Statistics prove that for many years the death penalty has fallen disproportionately on racial minorities in the United States. For example, since 1930

Since the death penalty was reauthorized in 1976, 1,362 people have been executed, almost exclusively by the states, with most occurring after 1990. Texas has accounted for over one-third of modern executions and over four times as many as Virginia, the state with the second-highest number. The Walls Unit prison in downtown Huntsville, Texas is the nations busiest execution chamber.

Immigration continues to grow through out Texas and so does politicians, however despite the growing population and growing supporters for Republicans, the death penalty does not. The death penalty has taken the lives of many criminals but does not continue to do so. Through out the nation, the death penalty has been a wide debated topic on whether or not it is in violation of the eighth amendment and also has been considered cruel and unusual punishment. Texas, among other states, has used and continues to use the death penalty costing taxpayers millions. The death penalty is cruel and usual punishment and is costing taxpayers millions of dollars.

While the topic can be overwhelming and complex, it is important to study the racist institution of the death penalty because execution is the ultimate expression of which individuals are valued by our society and which are considered dispensable. What the US expresses through its executions carries some racist undertones when we look at the races of the persons being executed, but it takes on a clearly racial direction when we consider the race of the original murder victim. For example, "the most comprehensive study of the death penalty found that killers of whites were eleven times more likely to be condemned to death than killers of African- Americans."3 On the flip side, "only 31 of the over 18,000 executions in this country's history involved a white person being punished for killing a Black person."4 In capital punishment, we find the modernday counterpart to lynching. Of course, lynching often meant sporadic acts of individual racism. Selective killing today is an official, bureaucratized act of the state and therefore an official statement of what our government stands for. And what the government stands for is the most complete disempowerment possible - death - for a large number of Black individuals.

The eighth amendment is designed to protect us from cruel and unusual punishment. Conservation of the United States Constitution, and all moral ideologies have been set aside. An old form of barbaric punishment and the saying "eye for an eye" is still being widely accepted by Americans today. The old form of barbaric punishment is capital punishment. No matter how "humane" the death penalty has become, it is still the killing of another human being. When people stand outside prisons and cheer that an individual was murdered, there is a problem. When people justify the killing of another person, there

In “The Death Penalty: Is it ever justified?” by Edward I. Koch, he talks about how death penalty affirms life. Death penalty is the only way we have of doing justice in response to the worst of crimes. It also assures that life is precious by making murderers fear that the end of their lives is coming. A cold-blooded murderer named Robert Lee Willie said “Killing people is wrong…It makes no different whether it’s citizens, countries, or governments, killing is wrong”. The only reason he had behind his saying was because he didn’t want to die. Even though death penalty may sound brutal, it actually isn’t.

Although this case did not make it far to an international level, however there were other overwhelming response coming in from the domestic level, being that many were against the death penalty specifically towards juveniles, minors and minors with mental retardation. Many psychological and medical institutions and organizations looked into Simmons case and used sufficient evidence in court to help overrule Simmons death penalty (APA, 2004). Several questions about this Roper v. Simmons case was bought up and presented in court such as, “Whether a juvenile of mental retardation is eligible for the death penalty when a capital murder is committed?”, “Once the Supreme Court holds that a particular punishment is not “cruel and unusual” and thus

I. The death penalty does not deter crime and has no beneficial effect on murder rates.

Crime in America is something that has been around for many decades. While a large number of crimes are considered minor, many more result in the serious injury or death of another human being. “When we think about crimes, we … normally focus on inherently wrongful acts that harm or threaten to harm persons or property” (Bibas 22). The death penalty, also called capital punishment, has been used as a means of punishing the most violent of criminals in an attempt to prevent others from committing similar crimes. Over the centuries, the methods used to conduct these executions have evolved and changed due to effectiveness and public opinion.