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.

The death penalty is a controversial topic that has been brought to the United States Supreme Court many times. According to the Oxford dictionary, the death penalty is the punishment of execution, administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime . Usually the death penalty is administered for murder, attempted murder, or intent to kill. It started off being administered by hanging, but then evolved to the electric chair and is now administered through lethal injection. From 1940 to 2014, approximately 3,771 people have been legally executed in the United States. Throughout the years, many things have been determined about the death penalty. The first being that it violates human rights. The second is that innocent lives cannot be brought back. And the third is the large possibility of a biased jury. There have been many cases that support these three points which I will address later. So, based on Supreme Court rulings, the death penalty is unconstitutional and should not continue to be legal.

In Kellow Chesney's book The Victorian Underworld illustrates that the Victorians tried to use the death penalty as a means of controlling criminal elements in forms of hangings, lethal injection,Electrocution, and firing squads in order to prevent crime( the victorian underworld). in Victorian times, the death penalty was used as a means of controlling. There should be abolishment of this because of the countless innocent men and women being put to death for the stated purpose of preventing crime out of fear. So There should not be a death penalty because it violates human rights, it does not deter crime, and is a cruel and unusual punishment.

The death penalty, also known as capital punishment or execution, is a punishment that kills someone for committing a crime, usually murder. Almost every place in the world has had a death sentence penalty, but it’s mostly seen in the United States through a judicial system. The death penalty is a cruel and unethical way of justice. There must be a way to solve this complex issue.

The Death Penalty (DP), being also known as capital punishment, capital offence and corporal punishment, is a sentence of death imposed on a convicted criminal (1); this essay will use all the terms interchangeably. The DP breaches two fundamental human rights, namely the right to life and the right to live free from torture; both rights are protected under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) adopted by the United Nations in 1948, which contains a list of each human rights that everyone is entitled to (UDHR 1948). Nevertheless, in 2016 alone at least 1,032 people were executed in 23 countries; most executions took place in China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Pakistan (Amnesty International 2017).

The death penalty is a controversial topic that has been brought to the United States Supreme Court many times. According to the Oxford dictionary, the death penalty is the punishment of execution, administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime . Usually the death penalty is administered for murder, attempted murder, or intent to kill. It started off being administered by hanging, but then evolved to the electric chair and is now administered through lethal injection. From 1940 to 2014, approximately 3,771 people have been legally executed in the United States. Throughout the years, many things have been determined about the death penalty. The first being that it violates human rights. The second is that innocent lives cannot be brought back. And the third is the large possibility of a biased jury. There have been many cases that support these three points which I will address later. So, based on Supreme Court rulings, the death penalty is unconstitutional and should not continue to be legal.

Hello I am Julia Patterson and my colleague Hadley Nodes and I firmly believe that the death penalty is a just fulcrum for America. To start, ¨Resolved: The death penalty is a good method of justice,¨ is the resolution we fully support. The death penalty is a civil method of justice because of the golden rule, cost, and historical documents. According to Webster's Dictionary, 1828, justice means, “the establishment . . . of rights according to the rules of law,¨ (Merriam). Therefore, the value justice means the establishing of rights, killing someone is taking away one’s right, therefore that person’s right to life should be taken away. All in all, the death penalty is a judicious fine for crimes.

Is the Death Penalty is it moral or no? In my opinion the death penalty can be seen as moral because people who has or have committed rape, murder, kidnapping, and many other difference crimes. People who are doing death penalty right now and continuing to do it. Should still be counter for that because if you are taking a person's life away, then I think their life should be taken away as well. It is just not fair for the family members who have lost a loved one, so therefore the death penalty should be counter for the person that convicted a crime. A person who takes someone else life away shows their neglect for the rights of others in the world. It shows that they have no rights for their own-self. Although, death penalty can be cruel of the punishment are the people that are for it and they mainly see it as” a eye for an eye”. Also, there are people who do not think death penalty is moral because we are killing people just the same way as a person that has killed someone already that killing someone is wrong to do. It can be possible that the person who has convicted a serious crime can change as they are serving a long life sentence in prison.

Occasionally, we are faced with moral dilemmas that force us to decide whether our absolute laws should really be unquestioned. The death penalty is the law put into question for this situation. People who are deemed mentally deficient are still susceptible to the death penalty, but there is a question as to whether the death penalty should really be applied against such people. In the journal by Philip Fougerousse, mental retardation, or deficiency, is defined in three parts, “first is subaverage intellectual functioning; second is significant limitations in adaptive skills (e.g., communication, self-care, and self-direction); and third, [is that] the symptoms must have manifested before the age of 18 years” (2003). With this definition in mind, the habits and demeanor of those diagnosed as mentally retarded differ from everyday individuals. As such the question comes to mind as to whether the death penalty should be applied to the mentally retarded. If they commit a crime, in which the death penalty is the consequence, should they be completely held accountable, if their mental retardation causes them to not understand that they are doing wrong? You could compare this to a child not understanding what they did wrong, and being punished severely without ever learning. Consequently, someone judged to be mentally retarded, should not be punished with the death penalty due to their lack of understanding, but should face different consequences.

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.

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Is the death penalty the right way to go when trying to punish a “criminal” or civilian of their punishment. In June 1972 the death penalty was removed because of the Furman vs. Georgia case which resulted in the Supreme court ruling that the death penalty was indeed a form of cruel and unusual punishment, which goes against the eighth amendment. In 1976 the death penalty was reinstated due to the Gregg v. Georgia case the supreme court decided that execution of a person for a crime was no longer a form of cruel and unusual punishment. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, since the reinstatement in 1976, there have been a number of 1,460 executions in the United States. The United States should not be using cruel and unusual punishment as a result of a crime.

The death penalty is an issue that has the United States quite divided. While there are many supporters of it, there is also a large amount of opposition. Currently, there are thirty-three states in which the death penalty is legal and seventeen states that have abolished it. I believe the death penalty should be legal throughout the nation. There are many reasons as to why I, and many others, believe that the death penalty should be legalized in all states, including fear of consequences, retribution, and mortality.

Who chooses who lives and who dies? In the case of people charged with capital punishment within the United States, the government decides. What gives the American government the right to do this? What makes the death penalty constitutional or unconstitutional? Opponents of the death penalty believe that capital punishment is unconstitutional because it goes against the 8th amendment, which prevents the use of cruel and unusual punishment. Contradictorily, I believe that the 5th amendment, which allows the use of capital punishment, is constitutional on the grounds that it is allowed by the U.S. government. I also believe that the death penalty is needed because of the fact that there are some crimes that are so heinous that there is no other punishment that fits the crime. I understand why many Americans may believe that the death penalty can be considered cruel and unusual punishment on the grounds that many execution methods can be painful and lengthy in time. We can all agree that capital punishment is a last resort option, but I can argue that capital punishment is legal through research based on evidence from the constitution and real world accounts.