Eliminating the Death Penalty

The future of the death penalty lies unclear in the cross-country battle over whether or not it should be abolished. The death penalty should in fact be abolished because of the extreme costs and painful time involved to house and execute inmates, the indecision of which method of execution is the most humane, and the increasing number of innocent inmates being wrongfully executed.

The death penalty had consistently been one of the United States’ most divided and controversial issues since the the sixteen hundreds. In 2015, twenty-eight people were executed in the United States. The use of the death penalty should be abolished. The death penalty in the United States is too expensive, inconsistent in rulings, and its popularity has declined in recent years. The death penalty is too final of a punishment for the United States to be using.

in the United States because it is a financial burden on the American people and not an

The Golden Rule: it states that one has to treat others as one wants to be treated. For the rule to be applicable, one must be highly ethical (GENB 4350 Online Lecture, Ethical Reasoning 1)

The Golden Rule states that we are to treat other people as we would like to be treated ourselves. It is followed by fellow believers and is recognized in all cultures and almost all major religions. R.M. MacIver states that this is the only rule that stands by itself in the light of its own reason, the only rule that can stand by itself in the naked, warring universe, in the face of the contending values of men and groups (274).

The execution has been carrying over a millennium year. Back in the days, the only way to punish the inmate and another criminal is to execute them. We have seen on television or heard on the radio, Texas is one of the most highly rated executions on the list. Not only in Texas, in the entire states government should completely be banned the capital punishment. Those who are innocent are facing in the death row. As stated in the, eight and fifth amendment it is " cruel and unusual punishment inflicted " on the innocent people and must have a due process before depriving anyone life. The death penalty does not guarantee to prevent the crime. Most of the time criminals will free to go and the innocent will be convicted. Many states cannot afford

People get the death penalty when they do one of these crimes; murder, treason, espionage, terrorism, and drug trafficking. You could also be in prison for the rest of your life if this happens. The death penalty is three lethal drugs that are given to the person that is guilty. The drugs are anesthetic, muscle relaxant, and a drug to stop the heart. The appeal system makes sure the people are guilty before they put them to death. This means the cases are reviewed. It takes place after the death sentence is given. This expensive process could take up to ten years. When the appeals are over the results will be a death penalty or life in prison or the person will be innocent and nothing happens. The death penalty must be banned because it does not decrease crimes and lots of innocent people have been killed.

There is a topic that lingers in today's society “The death penalty” which has been around since the 1800’s hundreds. The death penalty still remains as a controversial issue in society. In the last sixty years, there has been numerous and many polls that has been carried out to determine the amount of support that the death penalty has. There has been many abolitionists that have made it known to others that the death penalty should be abolished in the US for decades. America has always been threatened with terrorist attacks, such event that has occurred in September 11, also the distribution of virus that was known to be deadly, and also random attacks by dangerous people from across the country. Due to these attacks there has been an outrage, a moral outrage, also there are new debates on whether to use or to abolish the death penalty as a way to stop criminals from committing crimes. There has been thousands of innocent people that have lost their lives due to terror attacks. There has been a rise on rape and murder due to these criminal behaviors. The victim’s family members are left with anger and hurt and

Although the death penalty is legal in some parts of the United States, it has no place in our quest for justice and needs to be abolished. In particular, the death penalty is ineffective because of the time gone to waste from the salaried guardsmen being paid overtime, to the innocents being put on row. Due to the crucial time being lost, the United States is not spending money adequately, resulting in the downfall to debt. Not only is money being lost, but racial bias exhibited during trial is inadmissible and has a huge effect on how people in the society are portrayed, as well as treated. Abolishing the capital punishment will take the United States one step closer in recovering lost money and

Even though giving out capital punishments has been a controversial topic for years, many American states still use them as a form of resolution.

The debate on the death penalty is an extremely controversial topic in the United States. Much of this is attributed to the fact that today; very few developed countries still use capital punishment. In fact, only 21 countries carried out capital punishment in 2012. There are many reasons to ban the death penalty. The death penalty can be very inaccurate, it fails at deterring crime, and costs more tax dollars. There is no reason to keep an obsolete method of punishment like the death penalty in such a developed country like the United States, especially when it has no statistically proven benefits.

Throughout time many mentally disabled and people who have been wrongfully accused of a crime have faced the death penalty, which is cruel and unconstitutional punishment; countless court cases such as Furman vs. Georgia and the O.J. Simpson murder trial have led to change within states to the outlawing of the death penalty.

United Nations recently asked all its associated nations to abolish capital punishment in their criminal justice system, since then raging debates are happening in all countries. There no particular evidence that this punishment has been controlled crime in any society. I strongly opine, this is only a half measure to control the criminal behavior. Let me demystify, by taking various aspects of this grave punishment and its consequences in to account in my further discussion.

Many states today allow for the execution of those who have committed serious crimes such as murder; this is called the death penalty. In today’s society, 61 percent of individuals are in favor, and 37 percent are not in favor of the death penalty (Dugan). There are many conflicting arguments debating whether the death penalty should be banned or not. Many reasons as to why individuals believe putting people on death row is acceptable include thinking it acts as a deterrent to more crime and that it brings closure to the victim's family (“Should the Death Penalty Be Banned as a Form of Punishment?”). Everywhere one may look, there are also counter arguments throughout society and the Church. Those who are for the death

The death penalty originated in ancient Egypt for culprits accused of performing magic. Later, during the 1800’s, people were hung for terrible crimes they committed. Currently, the death penalty is a lethal injection that terminates felons for heinous crimes, like espionage, treason, and murder, yet many problems arise. The death penalty should be abolished because innocent lives are taken, it is unconstitutional, and it is inhumane.