Prisoners On Death Penalty

The death penalty is a capital punishment that is put into effect for major crimes. The death penalty is a very controversial topic in the United States and throughout the world. There was a time period were the death penalty was banned for about four years in 1972-1976. Many feel that the death penalty is justice because it is retribution toward criminals who have committed heinous crimes. However the death penalty is inhumane and should be abolished in the United States.

The first established death penalty laws date back to Ancient Babylon. Their tyrannical ruler Hammurabi established The code of Hammurabi most known to the laws an “eye for an eye and “tooth for a tooth”. Throughout the past this was the correct way of life, on the other hand the question is risen today, is the death penalty still reasonable? Coming to the question of bringing what makes our system better if we kill those who kill? The very idea of the state putting individuals to death is too much to endure. Capital punishment brings no benefits, undermining the constitution for reasons such as flawed executions, racism, innocents being framed, bias, revenge cost, and other critical reasoning. It is not only impractical, but it also does not prevent crime. Death row fails to recognize that people who are found guilty throughout the system have the potential to change, but how can they do that if they are denied the right to regain redemption in society. Nevertheless, the Death penalty should be eradicated based on the unlawful justice and its incapability to serve as a deterrent.

Capital punishment is also observed to be beneficial for the society because it deters the criminal from committing another crime and it prevents the other criminals from committing the same crime, however there is no scientific research that proves a causal connection or a cause and effect relationship between capital punishment and the commission of a crime. Killing a human being as a deterrent to crime is, in principle, using a human being as a means rather than an ends. If we agree with the fact that killing is wrong except in self-defense and therefore the killed would need to be punished. Then the argument follows that the killer’s punishment is to be killed can be seen as highly contradictory. This just turns into circular reasoning because to kill someone because they killed someone then this circle would just go on and on and people would continue to kill and kill and keep the cycle going. To kill the person who has killed someone close to you is simply to continue the cycle of violence which ultimately destroys the punisher as well as the offender. Executing someone for killing your loved one does not always necessarily give the family closure but may actually bring more pain because than that

I understand that some people think it’s justice but it’s really not. The way to make that person who has done something bad suffer is to let them sit in prison and rot. They will then have a long time to think about the crime or crimes that they had committed. Some people feel that if one don’t get the death penalty they are considered free but that is not the case. Just cause they are not put to death doesn’t mean they are free. They still have to sit in prison and deal with what they have done. To me I think that the death penalty should just be eliminated

The jury could not be as well rounded in their background knowledge in the subject of pinning someone to the death penalty; that could sway the judge’s decision on rather or not the person in subject receives the death penalty or not. Racism in the court can take a deadly turn. The government needs to take into consideration that every American on American soil is obliged to having equal rights and equal protection of the law. If that statement was true more than half of the accused on death row wouldn’t be there. There needs to be more evidence brought to court for the issue of placing someone on death row and they end up being not guilty, having zero involvement with the crime. What is next? How does the government make that up to a family? Just let the family accept that one of their members were exiled without strong evidence in the court of law? It is unjust. Other countries do not seem to really care in our involvement with the death penalty because they evidently have crueler punishments than we do. Just because of that, that does not mean that we should follow through with the death penalty. The death penalty creates too many problems and issues in the government and society. There is constant argumentation if the death penalty should be retained or repealed. It is clearly evident that the death penalty should be expelled from the government. Suffering behind bars for an entire lifetime is cruel punishment

It’s better to leave guilty criminals alive than to kill innocent people. I can’t imagine how Bloodsworth and others like him felt in the years that they were in the death row, waiting for their unfair death. According to Bryan Stevenson, the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, one in every nine criminals in death row is an innocent person who has been released from death row. One in every nine people could have been wrongly dead. There is no way to tell how many innocent people died before. Almost 1,400 people were executed since 1976 (Brook); I wonder how many of them may have been innocent. Courts do not give attention to claims of innocence once the suspect is dead. Defense attorneys move on to other cases where

But, as mentioned earlier, in 2012, only 39 inmates were executed. The other 3,000+ stayed on death row. “Death penalty inmates typically spend over a decade awaiting execution” (deathpenaltyinfo.org). Gary Alvord, who was sentenced to death in 1974, spent nearly 40 years on death row, only to die of a brain tumor in May of 2013 (deathpenaltyinfo.org). In a study done by Vera Institute, it shows that “the average per-inmate cost was $31,286, and the forty states surveyed spent $39 billion maintaining prisons in 2010” (vera.org). This is not justice. Inmates are sitting on death row for decades, wasting taxpayers money and time.

All people that are accused for murder should not be put on death penalty as soon as proven guilty. What if you take an innocents person's life? Once an innocent person is executed, his chance to prove innocence dies with him(Mandatory). You will never really know if a person is innocent or guilty until you have all 100% facts and evidence. But Death row is always wrong! Never kill a criminal because they killed your loved one, you don't want to give them the easy way out. You would want the criminal to suffer in jail and think about the people he killed so it would eat his mind alive. Always think before you agree with

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.

In an article entitled Condemned to Die in Prison stated that the penalty is three times more expensive than sentencing them to die in prison. Sentencing one to death, costs California taxpayers an extra $90,000 per a prisoner. If you were to add that up to a year, it would cost the state about $59 million a year. This would lead up to $336 for California’s new death roll. We can use that wasted money on valuable resources rather than the penalty. Modifying what is being said, California had carried out sentences of 11 prisoners between 1977 and 2002 that used up $250 million. We can use that wasted money on valuable resources rather than the penalty. That money can be used to create public safety programs by educating the public about health and law. Another way it could be put to good use is community service. Prisoners can pay part of their debt by cleaning the streets and helping the community. As a matter of fact, many innocent people are being wrongfully sentenced. In California, more than 200 people were set free after being wrongfully convicted. Most juries don not have enough information to hold a trial or convict a person of crime so they settle for the easiest decision. It could be any innocent person out there. All in all, the government just wants some one to pay for the crime and this is wrong. The fact that the capital has the ability to execute an innocent man or woman questions whether or not the subject is even necessary. There are better ways of punishing people and to do that we have to know if the person is innocent

The death penalty is a cruel punishment that serves no justice. An innocent person can suffer the consequences. The government shouldn't kill to show that killing is wrong. What about the innocent people that had their life taken, there is no justice for them. “Gary Gauger is one of 74 men who were freed from death row. Along with them Gerald Kogan, who recently stepped down from chief of justice of Florida’s Supreme Court Said “If one innocent person is executed along the way we can no longer justify capital punishment” (Shapiro). The death penalty is not a good thing, it serves no justice because it doesn't bring the victim back, nor does it stop others from killing.

Another punishment after incarceration which also raises controversial debates is the death penalty which should be abolished. According to John W. Whitehead, an attorney and founder of the Rutherford Institute, there are flaws happening in the death penalty system of America thus it should be stopped. He indicates, “They reveal a system in which lives and public order are at stake, yet for decades has made more mistakes” (Whitehead 114) which mean that there are innocent people being killed due to false accusations. No one knows enough to say when anyone should die. Whitehead argues his point by providing the information, “police officers, prosecutors, juries, and judges have sent many innocent men to death row” (115). When a man is sentenced to death, do people ask themselves what if a man has been executed for a crime he did not commit, then the mistake is discovered?

In 2013 2,979 people were on death row. The even crazier fact is that only 39 were executed that year while around 31 died of “natural” causes. The death penalty has been around since the dawn of society as a way to deter crime. Over the course of history, many criminals have been executed; However, this has not effectively stopped crime/murder at all. Because of this, I believe that capital punishment is a failed experiment. The death penalty should be banned because life in prison is a worse punishment, killing someone to show that killing is wrong is hypocritical, and it is simply a cruel and unusual punishment.

Many prisoners in the past have been known to be killed before they were proven innocent. Many documented cases where DNA testing showed that innocent people were put to death by the government. This sometimes happens because there are defendants who are given minimal legal attention by often minor qualified individuals. The government has made many mistakes which are being wrong about convicting someone for something they didn’t do, and killing this person for the wrong reason. Putting the wrong person to death is the biggest mistake that can be made and the government cannot afford to make this mistake.

The death penalty, also known as capital punishment is a legal procedure in which a state executes a person for crimes he/she has committed. This punishment has been implemented by many states, and is normally used for atrocious crimes, especially murder. It is also used on crimes against the state such as treason, crimes against humanity, espionage, and violent crimes while other states use it as part of military justice. There are mixed reactions on capital punishment depending on one’s faith, and the state they come from. In my view, I am not in favor of death penalty, as I strongly believe that, death penalty is unacceptable and an inhumane practice for it denies one the right to live. Death penalty does not deter crime, it is an act