Federal Government : The Death Penalty

Keeping a prisoner in jail for life will be very expensive considering that it costs $80,000 a year; and the bad news is that the money comes from the taxpayer's pocket. Thousands of people will attack the death penalty. They will give emotional speeches about the one innocent man who might be executed. However, all of these people are forgetting one crucial element. They are forgetting the thousands of victims who die every year. This may sound awkward, but the death penalty saves lives. It saves lives because it stops those who murder from ever murdering again (Bryant). These opinions represent some of the strongest and most influential views that proponents hold. However, if our prison system could rehabilitate more effectively, perhaps those who murdered once, could change.

The federal government has an obligation to make just laws. Currently, US laws allow for the death penalty for certain heinous crimes. The supporters argue that the 5th Amendment, which guarantees that no one shall be deprived of "life, liberty, or property, without due process of law,” implies that depriving someone of his or her life is permissible under the constitution as long as there is due process. However, there are several reasons why the federal government must abolish the death penalty - it weakens US moral authority over other nations; there have been too many wrongful convictions for death penalty in the US; the death penalty is in conflict with the 8th amendment of the US constitution; and finally, the cost of death penalty

I’m going to talk to you about the death penalty and how it associates with the three branches of government. I will also talk to you about how the death penalty affected people’s lives from the past to present day. The death penalty is the process by which you are sentenced to death for a foul crime the person has committed, whether that crime is murder, espionage, treason, or military justice. Other crimes, like sexual crimes have death penalties for rape, adultery, incest, and sodomy while militaries death penalty crimes are cowardice, desertion, insubordination, and mutiny. In some parts around the world, death penalty is called capital punishment because of the many controversy in many parts of the world.

Although the Texas Criminal Justice System gives punishments that are deemed fit to the gravity of the crime, the death penalty is still too harsh of a crime. Prisoners are stripped off their Eighth Amendment rights when they go through the execution, which is an inhumane, cruel and unusual punishment. This can be examined through the methods that the criminal and justice systems and the method of execution.

The first person to ever get execution in the state of texas was in november of 1819. When this was first put into effect they executed offenders by hanging them. Until 1923 ,they began using the electric chair to execute murderers. In the 1970’s that’s when they began using the lethal injections. In the beginning of the death penalty people were only executed for murder and stealing. But now you don’t have to commit a murder to get put on a death row sentence. Although most people who are on death row have committed a murder. Some of the felons who have been on death row have committed a crime such as several rapes, assault and battery, and attempted sexually batter.

Death Penalty in Texas According to Wikipedia, since the death penalty was re-instituted in the United States with the 1976 Gregg v. Georgia decision, Texas has executed more inmates than any other state. Since 1982, 537 people have been executed in Texas. All executions occur at the Huntsville Unit. [1] Death Penalty is when someone is punished for a harsh crime they have committed including murder and rape.

Texas had always had a long standing history of being traditional and conservative; their strong ties to tradition and pride in history has caused them to remain steadfast in some of their practices regardless of the world around them. Texas is amongst the few states in the U.S. that still actively participates in capital punishment. In 1982, the state became the first jurisdiction in the to carry out an execution by lethal injection, since then Texas has executed more than a third of the national total.

This chart shows how many executions there has been since the year 1976 to how many there are in 2015 and 2016. In the state of Texas, it has the highest death penalty with Oklahoma coming in second. The state of Texas has executed 538 people since 1976 to which 279 occurred when Rick Perry was governor of Texas which is more than any other governor had in their term. The executions had risen up in 2000 in the state of Texas where 40 people were put down. According to the chart from where it is at this year compared to the year 1976, the death penalty has declined to very few numbers to where some states abolished it because it violated the state’s

Did you know that since 1976, there have been a total of 518 executions in Texas alone? However in 2014 Texas only executed ten people. This is because they are seeing how much of a mistake the death penalty is. The death penalty is a useless form of punishment. The cost of it vastly overshadows that of the costs for life without parole, also yearly more and more death row inmates are being exonerated (released), and lastly it fails to deter criminals from committing crimes.

In many eyes across the country the death penalty is widely criticized. The state of Texas has the death penalty whereas nineteen other states in the United States do not including the state Maine. The death penalty is a way for the states to declare that they don’t tolerate the heinous crimes that some individuals commit. In Texas there are numerous ways that one could be sentenced to death row. Murdering a police officer or firefighter in the line of duty and if the individual knowing that they are a police officer or firefighter, murder for hire or promise of pay, to employ another to commit murder, murder during the act of or attempted act of kidnapping, burglary, robbery, aggravated sexual assault, arson, obstruction, retaliation or terroristic

The Texas death penalty is ranked number one nationally, which should not come as a surprise to any native Texans. (Holle, Fellow) Texas even has a prison museum, complete with a capital punishment exhibit, which spotlights an electric chair used to execute 361 prisoners from 1924-1964. Capital Punishment is still legal in 35 states. Japan is the only other Industrial democracy that still has the death penalty. (CNN)

The Texas state has a big reputation of being rigorous on people that committed crime. The necessity to punish guilty is because of the retribution theory, which states that punishment is justified because it is deserved. For that reason, the death penalty in Texas is legal. In fact, is one of only three states

The second primary source I found was written in 2013. It is an article named “ Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act of 2013” which, the name basically sums up what it’s about. The link is-https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/3741-which is from congress.gov. I chose this article because it corresponds with the story The Bet in ways that talk about death penalty. In modern times, the death penalty isn’t as brutal as it used to be. It’s either BANG instant death, or prison for life. I believe his article best supports the topic in my short story, because it is saying how in modern times the death penalty has been abolished. The main focus in the article is on the abolishment of the death penalty. The government tried to abolish

Texas Capital Punishment is not as reasonable as one might assume. It is not reasonable since there have been many innocent individuals who have been executed. One might wonder how an innocent individual is given Capital Punishment, and through out the Trial he or she is found guilty and hurl for execution. Many facing Capital Punishment are underprivileged individuals who cannot afford a private lawyer, in which he or she relies on the State of Texas to appoint an attorney for them (Byrd & Price, 2008). Much of the time, the appointed lawyers are overloaded with cases, don’t have time to review the case before trial, and don’t have trial experience required for a capital punishment case (Byrd & Price, 2008). According to the Death penalty

This is evident through research and according to the death penalty information center, the “2015 murder rate in death penalty states had a 5.15 rate while non-death penalty states had 4.13 rate; The difference being 25%” . Texas alone executes three times more people than any other state does, however, it still has one of the highest crime rates in the country. This alone is unacceptable and immoral. This shows that the death penalty cannot be used as means of punishing a murderer nor can it be used to protect society. Using death penalty to deter murderers and protect others violates moral ethics anyone stands