How Does Government Punish Criminals Who Kill People?

The death penalty is the only suitable punishment for murderers. The death penalty insures that criminals know that if they kill they will be killed, and they are going to receive a harsh punishment. Also it could be cheaper than sentencing a prisoner to life in prison. People feel that the death penalty is too harsh of a punishment. Which that would be a harsh punishment but they took another human's life. So they need to have a harsh punishment so people know they can not get away with murder. The death penalty insures that a murderer won’t kill again.

When a people commits a crime, they shall be punished by the law and serve their time inside a prison cell as their punishment. However, do these people necessarily need to be punished for what they did for what they think is right? The laws we follow are ways to maintain order within our society, but how can there be order, when the law itself had to fail to protect and punish the people? The law has not fail the people, but it’s the system that is causing innocent people being sent to jail. So, let me ask you this, murder doesn’t necessarily mean evil, right? The world being what it is, a lot of people out there deserve to die, don’t they? It might not seem logical but if we think about it, it will seem logical once we understand the victim’s point of view. Once we understand what the victim had gone through, we will understand why some people do deserve it. Because some offender does not think what they are doing is wrong and some that are truly dangerous does not see anything wrong with it. Justice is a weapon. It can be used to cause harm, but it cannot protect or save others. In other words, “The law can’t protect everyone.” If we think about it, we will understand why justice is a weapon because the prosecutor who is defending the offender would need to defend them, even if they know they are guilty. The prosecutor would use any tactics to get what they wanted and they would be threatening the defendants with long prison terms, which cause the defendants to plead

Resolution—Execution should not be allowed in the United States, especially given the risk of executing innocent people.

Capital punishment or death penalty is usually imposed on persons who committed heinous crimes and are those that endanger the safety of the society. Some countries and societies implement capital punishment while others do not. There are various reasons for this policy of countries, including the social view on the

It is cruel to kill a person no matter how horrible the crime they committed is. It shows people that if you do something, the same will be done to you, it is an eye for an eye. This type of justice is completely wrong. The punishment should be geared not only towards scaring others from committing a similar crime, but also to correct the offender and reintegrate him/her back to the society. Therefore, punishment by death does not achieve this objective in any way.

Capital punishment is the government’s imperfect attempt to protect its citizens from deadly individuals because some of these criminals are unable to function within current societal and legal norms; however, discrimination and wrongful convictions undercut the principle of the death penalty.

The United States of America’s capital punishment process is very flawed. Humans are imperfect and are always making mistakes, how do we justify being the group of people having the power to condemn someone to death when there have been times that our human judgments were flawed and immoral. This is probably the scariest part of our system and one of the most motiving causes for being against the death penalty. The death penalty alone imposes an irrevocable sentence. Once an inmate is executed, nothing can be done to make amends if a mistake

The world that we live in today have people who commit unforgivable crime by hurting others and making society feel unsafe. Individuals who perform serial crimes towards our society must face some kind of punishment, determine by the court justice and the people. Unfortunately, the capital punishment made by people and those with authority take justice on their own hands intensively. It is surprising how preventing others to commit the same crimes or worse have been taken so far. Everything is making that person feel unsafe and without hope of any kind. We must be considerate and realized that we make mistake, but we need to learn from it and have another chance to make things right. Prison it is a way to punish and give a second chance to a person even if it is for the rest of their life. We must never take a life for another life, because we will be becoming a criminal as well. The wrongful acts of punishment in this society is to create deterrence, torture, and self satisfaction; instead of just putting criminals in jail without deciding if they should stay alive.

In the cases of capital punishment killing can be justified. According to the article, When Murder Is Punished with Death, fewer criminals will murder, “The deterrent power of punishment is axiomatic, criminal law would be meaningless without it” (Jacoby). In

Most countries in the world despite the idea of capital punishment or mostly known as the death penalty. Capital punishment, in other words, is when an execution is carried out by state governing officials. Capital punishment is usually used against criminals who have committed heinous crimes such as terrorism, treason, or mass murder amongst a group of people. However, capital punishment has been dated thousands of years ago to the Babylon era. In the Babylon era capital punishment seemed to be exaggerated in the sense that any minor crime that was committed such as thievery, was worthy of being given the punishment of execution. Although capital punishment has long since existed for thousands of years, may areas across the world have abolished

Burn the heretic, behead the traitor, euthanize the murderer. Capital punishment by death has always resided in our society in countless different forms. The question is not whether it is right or wrong, for that brings an endless debate over it, but how and why certain factors allow it to be different in different countries, some to the extent of even abolishing it. How liberal a country’s people and government are, also adding the fact of what type of government is present, are the key factors that shape each country differently and determine the presence of the death penalty.

Capital Punishment or commonly called as Death Penalty is used in several countries today and in comes from ancient times which was used to penalize many grave offenses. On religious sentiments one considers then Bible advocates for death punishment to those who do unjust with other individuals. However death penalty has caught eye of many human activists and government organizations and has called for a long time debate whether death penalty is ethical or not and has made it one of the most debated issues. More than sixty percent countries in the world have provision of death punishment. However, question of killing someone probably innocent still arises also life and death are in hands of god

Last but not least, from a sociologic perspective, capital punishment does not work as intended, to deter crime rate, rather, it might brutalize individuals, at the same time does nothing good to the victim’s family other than brutal vengeance. The origin of death penalty is served as a vehicle to put a warning for those potential future criminals that such kind of behavior will lead to death. However, so far, no clear evidence can be seen that capital punishment, as a mechanism of deterrent, actually cut down the local crime rate. Ironically, a reversal trend was found by Death Penalty Information Center (2010) in the USA that the death penalty leads to an increase in local murder rate. To die might be too easy for the mindless murderers. Also, for the relatives or friends of criminals put into death through capital punishment, they are more likely to be

The eighth amendment of the United States Constitution annihilates cruel and unusual punishment. However, the death penalty is an increasingly popular outcome of United States capital crimes since 1976, including 98 executions in one year (“Searchable Execution Database”). The debate over capital punishment involves arguments which are based off of moral principles and social welfare. While the practice of the death penalty eliminates dangerous criminals, it is also an irreversible punishment. This hotly debated topic can be viewed through the psychological lens, so one can identify multiple stances on the effectiveness of the death penalty which both support or oppose capital punishment. This lens is important because it reveals scientific

No issue posed by capital punishment is more disturbing to the public than the prospect that the government might execute innocent people. Proponents to the death penalty are, of course, also against executing an innocent person (Hook and Kahn 91). Most everyone would agree that killing someone is wrong. Proponents and opponents agree that murder is a heinous act and should be punished. Despite their hatred for those who kill, proponents support the killing of murderers as a just punishment for their deviant behaviors. In this sense, execution can be termed, “legal murder” because “executions shares enough of the characteristics of murder to be counted as part of the general category: it includes a victim who does not want to die, and an agent that nonetheless kills [the victim]” (Yanich 98]. Murder is synonymous with kill, as found in the Britannica- Webster Dictionary. To kill is to deprive one of life or to put one to death and murder implies motive and intent or premeditation. With respect