Pros And Cons Of The Death Penalty

The death penalty is still in use in the united states. The state with the most executions is in Texas with a total of 545 from 2017 to the year 1976 (Number of Executions, 2017). The death penalty is a very big debate. There are many reasons why and why people do and don’t like the death penalty.

Death is something that a lot of people think about, but do people think about the Death Penalty? Having been given the death penalty means that someone is going to be put to death by a lethal injection or an electric chair; There are more ways, but the injection and the electric chair are the most used. There are many different opinions surrounding the idea of death penalties; which some people think the death penalty should be used more and some believe the complete opposite.

The Death Penalty is the punishment of execution to someone who legally by court of law convicted a capital crime. In the United States of America this is mainly used for aggravated murder. Additionally this means that the murder has circumstances that are severe. For instance it was planned murder, intentionally killed below the age of 13, killed someone while serving term in prison, killed a law officer, and killed someone or illegally terminated a person’s pregnancy while in the process of committing, trying to commit or escaping after the act of rape, kidnapping, aggravated arson, arson, robbery, aggravated robbery, burglary, aggravated burglary, terrorism, or trespass. The death penalty is balanced between pros and cons, where it

"Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice aforethought. Every murder perpetrated by ... any … kind of willful, deliberate, malicious, and premeditated killing ... from a premeditated design unlawfully and maliciously to effect the death of any human being other than him who is killed, is murder in the first degree." (Cornell) First-degree murder is very clear in its definition in US law. On the fateful night of November 14, 1959, Perry Edward Smith and Richard Eugene Hickock seemed to have completely disregarded that very law when they made the decision to murder the innocent Clutter family after a planned robbery attempt and murder for cover up. Herbert and Bonnie Clutter and two of their children, Nancy and Kenyon Clutter, were brutally slain that night only for a total gain of fifty dollars for the killers. For the brutal murders of the Clutter family, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock should undoubtedly be punished by receiving the death penalty.

Knowing the exact date and time of one’s death would be tremendously terrifying. For the people on death row, it is experienced every single day. Instead of paying their time, they get the easy way out. It puts innocent lives at risk, it is selected at random, and it costs taxpayers a fortune. The death penalty is not a fair justification and the United States should not practice this mechanism.

The Government used to have a death penalty where you would have to sit in a chair that shocks you all the way to your death. When time has come passed the electric chair was eliminated and now their using the lethal injection where you are poisoned and killed instantly. Out of everybody on the death row 42% are Black, 43% are Whites, 13% are Hispanic, and 2% are other races. In the US there was 3,035 people on death row last October. 150 death row inmates were released due to their innocence being found. In Cali people who killed whites where 3 times more likely to get the death row then those who killed blacks.

The death penalty. What a controversial topic in itself. And that’s not even getting into how those sentenced are executed, which is what I would like to discuss- the form of execution. Specifically, death by firing squad. The pros, cons and why I believe it should be legal.

Few issues have been as hotly argued and controversial as the death penalty, with its many conflicting moral, social and legal implications. Compelling arguments exist in favor of the final punishment, and equally strong arguments exist to end its practice. Furthermore, considering its conflicting history, on the grand scale of the whole world, and in just America, it is unlikely that this issue will be resolved any time soon. In the United States specifically, the issue has great significance to the bill of rights and the 8th amendment, which prevents cruel and unusual punishment. The death sentence, due to the intense debate on its morality and constitutionality, as well as the

As of August 2017,the death penalty is legal in 31 states. Twenty people were executed in the United States in 2016. Although this number may seem high the death penalty rate has actually been on a decline since the early 2000’s. Since 1973 there have only been 159 death row exonerations. There have only been 54 women on death row and only 22 juveniles have been killed but the American judicial system. Many people commit crimes every day some crimes are so horrific that they can often be sentenced to the death penalty. The death penalty is one of the cruelest acts known to man and it needs to be abolished entirely. Some reasons as to why the death penalty should be abolished are as follows: the death penalty is systematically racist, innocent people can be put to death, it stops any chance of rehabilitation, and it’s simply savage.

The Death Penalty: killing people that kill people to show people that killing people is wrong. Use of the death penalty in the United States has always been controversial. Some people believe that it is a fair system in which criminals pay for the crimes they committed and to prevent future crimes. While others believe that it is a broken system, often punishing innocent civilians to a cruel and inhumane death.

Kill the killer! The death penalty should be allowed in all 50 states because the death penalty deters crime, helps with overcrowding, the bible says it is okay, and helps the victims’ families.

Prisons also cost a great deal of money to run and maintain and it is

Is the death penalty justified? And how long has it been around? In 1608 the first ever Capital punishment was recorded in the Jamestown colony of Virginia. One of the main countries that influenced the death penalty towards the US was Britain. They brought it over when they came to the “New World” which is now known as the US. If you think about it, is it really justified?

I believe that the death penalty serves justice to people around the United State of America. The death penalty is a very harsh, and cruel punishment. In some cases though, it is necessary for that punishment. They have different methods of death penalties in different states. The most common method is lethal injection. Hearing the word death puts a feeling of fear into the criminal being sentenced. I believe that makes other people not want to commit crimes as much. The death penalty is the worst thing you could ever be sentenced.

Since the eighteenth century kings and queens have used execution as a form of punishment. During that time people would be executed in many different ways, some more creative than others but all for one purpose. The most popular types of execution were beheadings, being hanged, or stoned (in which rocks were thrown at the individual, not the other fun one) to death. These punishments were given to only the most serious crimes such as adultery, witchcraft, treason, or even stealing food. Nowadays, this form of punishment is still existent but known as the death penalty. People are no longer stoned to death (unless it is the fun kind but that’s on their own time) but are dealt with in a less cruel manner, although it did take some time to develop a less cruel way to take a person's life because the gas chamber and the electrical chair aren’t the best ways to go. The less cruel way to do it now is with the lethal injection where three drugs are used one is to induce unconsciousness, the other to cause muscle paralysis and respiratory arrest, and the last to stop the heart. Although it was developed so it would no longer be cruel and an unusual punishment, the death penalty is still a widely controversial topic.