Claude Jones's Arguments Against Capital Punishment

Raleigh Sizemore and Gregory Ratliff who could have faced the death penalty for shooting Richmond Police Officer Daniel Ellis to death entered guilty pleas. Sizemore who is 37 years old will serve life in prison without the possibility of parole and Ratcliff who is 28 years old was sentenced to 30 years in prison. Katie Ellis who was the wife of Daniel Ellis wrote a statement stating that she supported the plea agreement because of her son. Katie ultimate desire is to protect Luke and to provide him the best life as possible. Katie stated that with Sizemore she won’t have to go to court or in front of parole boards to plead our case and for Ratcliff she can sleep well at night knowing that this individual is behind bars. On the other hand though

America is within the top four countries for the number of executions due to the death penalty since 1999. Citing the, “Amnesty International in For What Tomorrow (2004), more than 1,800 people were executed in 31 countries, the vast majority of these in China (1076), Iran (165), Saudi Arabia (103), and then the United States (98)” (NAAS, 43). The death penalty is currently an intense debate involving the idea of whether or not we as people should be able to sentence another person to death. According to the ethical and moral reasoning of the philosophers Jeremy Bentham, Peter Singer, and Hugo Bedau, the death penalty should not be a legal punishment.

The following description of Evans's electrocution was sworn to and verified by Russell F. Canan on June 22, 1983:

Across America a battle of morals rages over the death penalty. Like many other controversial issues that consume our society, the issue of the death penalty is not easily defined. Some people feel that one should reap what they sow. However, the issue is more complex than the eye for an eye standard. With the death penalty in place, our country is stumbling down a twisted path with numerous complications nationwide.

A very popular debate goes on between people on whether or not capital punishment should exist or not. “A Death in Texas” was wrote by Steve Earle, and the main subject is capital punishment. The death penalty should not be allowed, and should not even exist, because it’s murder itself, people can change, and we don’t have the right to take another human beings life.

Capital punishment and the practice of the death penalty is an issue that is passionately debated in the United States. Opponents of the death penalty claim that capital punishment is unnecessary since a life sentence accomplishes the same objective. What death penalty opponents neglect to tell you is that convicted murders and child rapists escape from prison every year(List of prison escapes, 2015). As I write this essay, police are searching for two convicted murders who escaped from the Clinton Correctional Facility in New York on June 6th, 2015. The ONLY punishment from which one cannot escape is capital punishment.

Out of the 50 states, 26 of them have had at least one death row execution. American people (approximately 65%) say that they are still strong supporters in the Death Penalty. That is over half of the American population, for the Death Penalty. One may argue that it is a horrible way of giving people what they deserve; however, those people may not see the mistakes these people have made, making them not agree with this act. As this may be a contradiction, capital punishments is one of the life learning punishments known. It is legal in many states, but that doesn’t make it fair to all because its blameful, the cost is outrageous, and it’s time that needs to be spent helping, instead of killing.

In the article "The Case Against the Death Penalty," which shows up in Crime and Criminals: Opposing Viewpoints, Eric Freedman contends that capital punishment does not discourage fierce crime as well as conflicts with decreasing the crime rate. This essay will analyse Freedman 's article from the perspectives of a working man, a needy individual, and a government official.

For years, politicians have been passionately debating the subject of the capital punishment, which has only served to create more divisions within our society. It is an extremely sensitive subject, and one that inspires strong emotions in both directions. Like abortion, gun laws, and the war on terrorism, capital punishment is an issue on which everyone is never likely to agree.

A man who has been convicted of killing two of his infant children and hiding their plastic-wrapped bodies in storage units in Arkansas and Arizona was sentenced to death recently in a California courthouse. Already serving a 30-year sentence for the murder of his son, Jason Hann received the death penalty after the killing of his 10- month-old daughter. Hann murdered his daughter with a blow to the head in Desert Hot Springs in 2001. A year later, the body was found in a blue Tupperware type container stashed in the back of a storage unit. The only reason it was found was that Jason had stopped making payments on the unit. The contents of this unit were later auctioned, and the body was found by the new owner. Hann was arrested in 2002 at a motel in Portland, Maine. At his court hearing, there was question whether or not to sentence life without parole or death. Eventually the jury agreed to death. "Hann has already committed a crime against someone and he was in the process of doing the same

Von Drehle, David. "The Death of the Death Penalty." Time. Time, 8 June 2015. Web. 04 Nov.

Against the Death Penalty: An Annotated Bibliography While the Death Penalty has been historically used as a deterrent of crime, it is barbarity, is economically costly, and racially bias in the United States of America. With this research paper, I will explain how the death penalty should be abolish from our judicial system. Death Penalty Information Center. http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org./ This is a website that gives lots of information about the death penalty from the history, current inmates and trials that could lead to death row.

John Jones, a black man, shot and killed a white store owner during a robbery. He was convicted in a Georgia court and sentenced to death. His lawyers appeal the sentence to the Supreme Court. They argue that statistics in Georgia indicate that killers of whites are 11 times more likely to get the death penalty than killers of blacks. Further, the lawyers claim that since some convicted murderers don’t murderers don’t suffer the death penalty, his client is receiving unequal treatment. Also, the death penalty is imposed and carried out in such an arbitrary fashion that it violates the 8th and 14th Amendment. Finally, they argue that the death penalty is “cruel” punishment because it doesn’t allow for the possibility of reversing an error or

In most cases, crimes that are punishable by death include murder, or a variation of murder. In other words, a vast majority of these crimes involve death. In a country that takes pride in being, “the land of the free” it seems unnatural that we would kill anyone, regardless of the severity of their actions. It is hypocritical for to kill someone for killing someone else. It is much like the saying “an eye for an eye.” Rather than kill someone as retaliation for a lost life, a alternative option is often life in jail with parole; not only does it teach the felon a lesson, but it prevents the death penalty from having to be used. Bethany Webb whose sister was killed in the Seal Beach Massacre says, “I wanted that man to pay for his crimes. Even to suffer. But I thought -- and still think -- that a life term in prison without parole is as close to justice as I would ever get. Why should society answer death with more death?”(Webb). Webb whose mother was also shot in the massacre, and was the only survivor, has had to deal with a great deal of hardships. However, despite this, she doesn't believe in the death penalty. Instead, she feels that the government shouldn’t contribute to the abundance of murder and death our country is faced with, and that a life sentence is a better option. Therefore, the death penalty, like most things, has it’s own flaws and one major injustice of the capital offence is it’s hypocrisy.

The problem with the death penalty is that it is a big waste of money. Yes, in some cases it can make people feel better, like they are getting revenge on the people that did the crime to their loved one or someone they know but that is really cruel. In the article, The Price of Justice it shows how the price were a few years ago and it can only of up from there “in 1988, The Miami Herald reported that the cost of the death penalty in Florida was $3.2 million per execution compared to $600,000 for life imprisonment.103 Similarly, The Dallas Morning News reported in 1992 that the trials and appeals of a capital case alone cost Texas $2.3 million per case on average”. Making the criminal sit in a jail cell that is not that big with other bad people is more of a punishment then just killing them. And it is a lot cheaper to do it that way as well. The cost of the death penalty is not reasonable because the state can’t even perform the death penalty the right way. And we can use the money for better things for our states and for our society so we can improve our comity’s so