Death Penalty In The United States

The laws of the land are to protect the innocent and the weak, if we don’t have a consequence for people who commit crimes than what type of world would this be? I believe that the death penalty is morally acceptable. The definition of morality is the principles of right and wrong. To me, this means as humans we can be praised for honorable deeds and should be punished for bad ones. Forfeiting someone’s freedom isn’t the same as forfeiting someone’s life and if someone murders someone, they deserve to forfeit their own life. Morally, incarceration isn’t enough punishment for taking someone’s life, their future and taking them away from their friends and family. I believe capital punishment is an ethically correct deterrent of future murders and acceptable form of punishment for such behavior.

As Cass R states… “Capital punishment may be morally required, not for retributive reasons, but rather to prevent the taking of innocent lives”. Death penalty is one of those extreme punishments that would create fear in the mind of any person. If murderers are sentenced to death and executed, potential murderers will think twice before killing for fear of losing their own life.

Capital punishment has been a part of the U.S criminal justice system for centuries. The death penalty has been the most controversial aspect. The death penalty is legal in 33 states but the rest of the 19 states abolished it. There are over half of Americans that support the death penalty while the rest of them believe that it is unacceptable. People who support the death penalty believe that capital punishment lowers future crime rates, but people who are against it believe that it is a cruel and think innocent people could be mistakenly put to death for something they did not do. Capital punishment should be allowed because it saves lives, decrease the homicide rate, and saves more money for the government.

The death penalty is a very controversial topic worldwide. People are either for the death penalty, or against it, and there is usually no changing their mind by introducing arguments that are contrary to their opinion. The death penalty debate is not a new one, “capital punishment [has been] practiced since colonial times despite persistent debates” (Jost). However, it was around the 1960s when countries began to abolish, or strictly restrain the death penalty (Jost). The death penalty has existed many years. However, in recent years a majority of countries in Europe have abolished their death penalty and encouraged the United States and other active death penalty countries to do the same. The United States, however, has kept the death penalty around, and continues to do so, despite evidence that it many not be as effective as they believe it is in deterring crime. The United States has become an anomaly as far as the death penalty goes. The United States continues to retain the death penalty even though all of their close allies have abolished it. There are significant differences between the practice, retention, and abolition of the death penalty in the United States and countries in Europe, and there are many theories that exist as to why the United States has retained the death penalty and the future of the death penalty in the United States.

The death penalty was created to punish people for crimes that far exceeded the average punishment of prison time. Many people argue that the penalty is too “harsh”, however I believe that the crime fits the punishment. The death penalty is only applicable to heinous crimes such as murder or terrorism. The penalty has been used to end the lives of some of the cruel criminals to ever live. Criminals that have been sentenced to the death penalty include; Timothy McVeigh (the Oklahoma bomber), Ted Bundy (notorious serial killer/ rapist), Saddam Hussein (notorious terrorist leader). It is obvious that the penalty has been put to good use over the years.

While criminals must be punished for their criminal actions, “legalized murder”, as author Coretta Scott King put it, is immoral. The death penalty is legalizing the very thing that many on death row are charged for, murder. There is a multitude of lawful alternatives, to the death penalty, of reestablishing a better reputation for the criminals. The Constitution has no true right to allow such a felonious form of rehabilitation.

Punishment by death for people convicted of certain crimes also known as the death penalty is unethical. There are currently 31 states including New Hampshire, in the U.S. with the death penalty and 19 states without. The death penalty is immoral and violates human rights. In some parts of the United States we have a biased criminal justice system which can lead to false an unlawful sentence to death. The death penalty also has irreversible outcomes if proven innocent, it doesn’t lower crime rates, and it is very expensive. The death penalty is just contributing to the cycle of violence, retribution is not the answer.

The death penalty is lawful for capital murder. It eliminates life in prison, and it also saves tax dollars. It gives the victim’s family more closure along with the reduction of murder rates. The death penalty might seem cruel, but it is not very different from life in prison. Some crimes are so inherently wrong that they demand stricter punishments. We have the ability and power to punish people who deserve to be punished at the extent of how they should be punished. Of course, this penalty has its faults, but it does more good than bad.

The concept of capital punishment is one that has successfully caused massive controversy in America throughout history. Also known as the death penalty, this is an extreme form of punishment that is placed upon a person who has committed a crime (in most cases, murder) that the government deems worthy of execution. In current times, the death penalty usually comes as a result of extreme cases of murder in which the court decides the convict deserves to die. Because of its intensity, the topic is one that many American citizens have debated about over time. Many oppose the idea because they believe it to be inhumane and unacceptable in many ways. However, as long as there have been those who are against it, there have also been

Burke Marshall, the head of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice during the Civil Rights Era, once said, “ The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it 's different in different states.” Burke Marshall’s thoughts were, and still are completely correct. The death penalty is more controversial now than ever before, because society has changed. The founding fathers of the U.S. wrote in the eighth amendment that all citizens had the right to be protected from cruel and unusual punishment. As time goes on, more and more people agree with the statement that capital punishment is cruel and unusual, and want it abolished. On the other hand, more and more people are starting to think that the death penalty is needed in society. Regardless of everybody’s thanatophobia, or fear of death, capitlal punishment has proven itself unnecessary and unfair because of racial influences on the judicial system, criminals do not get the chance to rectify their own mistakes, and capital punishment encourages more crime.

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

Capital punishment has been around for centuries taking the life of guilty convicts to bring justice to the people. However, many people see the death penalty as a brutal action which no human should have to face, guilty or innocent. After the death penalty travelled around the world, it became very popular in America leading to many Supreme Court cases and protests. Endlessly, people have argued their viewpoints about whether the death penalty is constitutional in relation to the 8th amendment which states no “cruel or unusual” punishment. Politicians from every state including Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, have commented their personal views on the death penalty making it a very public dispute. Capital punishment is a very popular subject to debate over, and still a very prominent issue America is facing today.

The death penalty is a form of capital punishment which has been implemented in the judicial system for thousands of years, the popularity of which has fluctuated throughout the years. Over time, the public has generally been supportive of the use of the death penalty within the United States judicial system, where at one point almost all citizens were in favor of this form of capital punishment. However, in more recent years, the support for it has decreased and due to this it has become a less common form of punishment. The topic of the death penalty is one that has not been greatly discussed and debated, primarily because many citizens believe that many criminals deserve to die for committing the heinous crimes they are being punished for. But is that the question we should be asking?

The death penalty is an extremely controversial topic that is developing within our society today. According to Andre and Velasquez in “Capital Punishment: Our Duty or Our Doom,” 2000 people in the United States are currently awaiting capital punishment due to atrocious crimes (Andre and Velasquez 2013). This issue is becoming more controversial as more states are beginning to consider ratifying this concept states Andre and Velasquez (Andre and Velasquez 2013). The reason this issue is becoming more controversial is due to the fact that this punishment is at the peak of severity. Capital punishment is the legal process for a court to deem death upon an individual due to the severity of the crimes committed. These crimes can range

The death penalty is the worst sentence you could possibly ever get during a criminal trial. Many people think that the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment because they think that no one under any circumstance has the right to take another human beings life. I personally disagree with this because there are many crimes in this world that I do believe deserve the death penalty due to the severity of the crime that was committed by the perpetrator. In the United States, the death penalty is primarily reserved for people who have been convicted of murder or other capital offenses that are to severe to let them live out the rest of their days in maximum security prison. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that capital punishment is neither unconstitutional and not cruel and unusual punishment, and exists within the boundaries of the 8th and 14th amendments of the constitution. There are some instances in which capital punishment has been approved for individuals who have raped or sexually assaulted minors in some way and i think that is one of the most heinous crimes that someone can commit and they should be put to death. Though far earlier in the history of the United States, capital punishment was used for a wider variety and less violent and heinous of crimes. Crimes such as arson, rape, robbery, and counterfeiting also resulted in this ultimate penalty and the taking of the crooks life. Many crimes which are no longer issued the death penalty in society today, such