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.

"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.

In fact, the murder rate gap between states that have capital punishment and states that don’t has grown since the nineties and is expected to expand in years to come. This shows that the death penalty does not discourage criminals from committing murder and to some degree, the death penalty doesn’t even phase murders from killing someone. There is no proof that because of the death penalty, murder rates go down nor evidence that proves murders think about the death upon the action of murder. The argument that the death penalty discourages murder crimes is inadequate due to the fact there is no direct correlation between the death penalty and the murders of innocent

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 United States justice system uses many methods of punishment on lawbreakers and criminals. These include jail time, community service, paroles, fines, and the most shocking, the death penalty. The death penalty, also referred to as capital punishment, was first introduced in the form of hanging hundreds of years ago when America was first established. Now, the most common way of execution proves to be death by lethal injection. For hundreds of years, people have argued over whether or not the general idea of capital punishment stands morally correct. Many have also debated if anyone holds the right to end another’s life. The death penalty, morally wrong and faulty, does not save lives but unnecessarily ruins and ends them.

The death penalty can be good for some cases but The Oregonians for Alternatives to The Death Penalty said that most corrections personnel who are conducting the executions suffer from PTSD. Death Penalty is bad because of rehabilitation failure, it is a defense mechanism, mentally ill people are set to die, people who conduct the deaths can be scarred, and it violates the 8th amendment.

The death penalty has been used in the American judicial system since its founding. It is given to punish the worst kinds of criminals, guilty of unspeakable cruelty. It has evolved from its most barbaric forms, like the hanging and electric chair, to more civilized practices like lethal injection. There has been lots of controversy surrounding the death penalty and for that reason many states, mostly northern, have outlawed capital punishment. However, in some states, like Texas, it is still utilized today and is seen as an essential part of their judicial system. There has always been a great divide between the United States and the death penalty. And the debate behind whether it is right or wrong seems to be pretty clear to most people.

What is the appropriate punishment for a crime? Many believe that criminals deserve capital punishment. Capital punishment is a faulty system in which the negatives outweigh the positives. Sentencing people to death row is a long process that has an emotional toll on the victim’s family. The death penalty goes against many people’s religious beliefs. In many cases, people on death row are later found innocent and released, but in some cases innocent people are executed. It is too expensive to continue sentencing inmates to death when there are other things that are more important to spend money on. Capital punishment has more negative effects than positive effects.

States that have death penalty laws do not have lower crime rates then states without any of our country laws, And states that have took away capital punishment show no important changes in either crime or murder rates. The death penalty has no deterrent effect. Claims that each execution change a certain number of murders have been roughly checked by social science research, And the pros of attorney quality and the cons Defense attorneys routinely file all manner of motions and objections to protect their clients from conviction. Attorneys know their

While the differences in punishment between death penalty states and non-death penalty states is severe, the difference in outcomes is not as severe. While one would expect death penalty states to have lower murder rates because of the fear of the death penalty, the opposite ends up being true. In death penalty states, the murder rate has been significantly higher in every year since 1990. States without the death penalty also feature lower general crime rates.

Only God should create and destroy life “Many Christians believe that God commanded "Thou shalt not kill" (Exodus 21:13), and that this is a clear instruction with no exceptions.

If the death penalty only occurs to civilians shouldn’t this evenly handed and fair form of punishment entail all of the victims including those of the government such as politicians who carry out air strikes. One could argue that politicians kill the most people and therefore are the most at risk of this offence. Shouldn’t politicians deserve to die as well? It seems to me as if the death penalty or capital punishment or the justice system is enforced by the government for the government instead of its citizens. Shouldn’t it be the same standards for all?Justice for all? Including politicians who are in charge of this sick and twisted form of justice that only works against others and is entirely hypocritical and completely juxtaposes everything that justice stands for.This system is made entirely for governments no doubt.

The death penalty is a serious problem that has the United States very divided. While there are many supporters of it, there is also a large amount of opposition. Currently, there are thirty three states where the death penalty is legal and seventeen states that have abolished it . I believe the death penalty should be legal throughout the nation. Crime is all around, Wherever we look we find criminals and crime. Criminals have become a part of peoples daily lives,Some criminals commit a crime because they have no other option left to survive, but some do it for thee own enjoyment. I do not think death penalty should be used for everybody whos commited a crime of some sort . A person, who stole food or something from a grocery store,

Many people argue that the death penalty is justified because it is a fair and equal punishment for the crimes committed and that the murdered should receive fair and equal punishment in order to have justice. It is often assumed that murders should be punished by death, but isn’t it true that ending or killing anyone is morally wrong? In this counter argument I will argue that nobody has the right to take anybody's life no matter what and if murderers deserve to die, the state does not have the authority to carry out the sentence because the death penalty promotes a violent society.

At one time the majority of the people and lawmakers of the United States believed that having the death penalty in place served as a deterrent for criminals. We are humans and we all have choices. Criminals do not necessarily think about the death penalty while committing a capital crime, which is punishable by death. There is no factual data that proves that the death penalty serves as a deterrent for other criminals. Hence, “states without the death penalty have lower murder rates that have it, a gap that has consistently grown since the 1990s” (Carter, 2012). Evidently it does not matter if you have the death penalty in effect or not, but it appears to be better if you do not have the death penalty in place. Furthermore, in the aspects of deterrence, some believe that the death penalty still serves that deterrent purpose. Again, there is no factual evidence for their beliefs but certain individuals