Should Australia Abolish Capital Punishment?

Argumentative Essay on Capital Punishment in Australia Capital punishment is barbaric and inhumane and should not be re-introduced into Australia. Although capital punishment has been abolished, the debate on this topic has never abated. When a particularly heinous crime is committed, this debate arouses strong passions on both sides. Many who advocate the abolition of capital punishment consider the death penalty to be cruel and inhuman, while those who favor of punishment by death see it as a form of just retribution for the gravest of crimes.

Australian society has ultimately rejected the idea of the practice of capital punishment making a return into the Australian law books. However, events such as the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and the Bali bombings have ensured that the spotlight once again shines on the controversial subject. I am in favour of the practice returning to Australia for heinous crimes such as murder, child molestation, serial rapists, and people who commit acts of animal cruelty. This is because:

Capital punishment is a legal authorization to kill someone for a crime they have committed. The death penalty has been the highest form of criminal punishment in the American judicial system since the 13 colonies. It has taken the form of hanging, stoning, drowning, burning, beheading, gassing, electrocution, and injection. The taking of a man 's life as penance for criminal behavior is wrong. The moral injustice of murder, the cruelty of execution, and the death of innocent men are all concerns that make the death penalty wrong. Our society has taught children that violence is not the answer and yet our highest form of punishment is executing someone which does not solve anything, nor does it fix a problem. The United States should abolish the death penalty due to execution of innocent people, excessive cost and it is against the US constitution.

I am discussing the question: Should Capital punishment (otherwise known as the death penalty) be brought back in the UK? In this presentation, I will be informing you about different people’s opinions on the subject. Some of them will be MPs and others will be just members of the public. I will give you some pros and cons associated with the death penalty and find out why it is such a debated subject online. I will also be covering why the death penalty was in fact abolished in the first place in the UK. I would also like to find out what different religions think about this. I chose this subject as it is a very interesting subject that has been eagerly debated online and in parliament. At the start of this project I also had no opinion on the subject. However, after doing lots of research on the subject, I have come up with enough information to make an informed decision. This subject also relates to work we have been doing in history of how things in Britain changed through time. This project would also help me to develop future skills such as the skill of analysing sources effectively using the CRAVEN method. Plus other skills including keeping to a deadline; making sure a piece of data is reliable and not erroneous and thoroughly checking through a presentation before I present it. These are skills vital for most jobs. This will also help me to be able to create a good questionnaire and taking the

Lethal injections have been around for many years with the same basic idea and procedure. Lethal injection uses three drugs, a fast acting barbiturate that sedates the inmate and the drug Tubocurarine that paralyzes the inmate, and finally potassium chloride is used to stop his heart. These methods have been a controversial issue for many reasons. People that supports lethal injection believes that it is more humane method of execution than any other because it cause little or no pain. It also argued that it is less expensive than detaining or placing someone in jail for life. As far as lethal injection been unconstitutional because the procedure causes unusual pain and suffering, some people believe that someone who has kill countless people deserve to physical

The death penalty, or capital punishment, has been around as early as the Seventh Century B.C. and is still used in many countries today, including the United States. There are many arguments stating capital punishment should be abolished for many reasons, including that capital punishment violates the Bill of Rights, and life in prison is a more effective deterrent than capital punishment; there are also counter-arguments, saying that capital punishment should not be abolished for reasons such as capital punishment achieves justice for those who have been wronged and that it brings a sense of closure to families.

Once upon a time most advance countries believed in the death penalty among those countries Australia was one of them. This is a barbaric and brutal way to be punished. For example criminals would be hanged put under the firing squad, injected with a lethal injection, be electrocuted or would be in a room with lethal gas. A lot of people under lethal gas actually died by banging their heads against the wall because they would rather die quicker than have a slow excruciating death. But now as time goes on, society has discovered that death does not teach us anything and in some cases it is the easier way out. Murders would rather die than spend a lifetime in prison, it cost more to put someone on the death row than a lifetime in prison. Furthermore what if someone you knew was innocent and was killed for something they did not do. An eye for an eye is not a Christian belief, it is a Jewish belief. Christianity stands firmly against capital Punishment.

“The death penalty is not about whether people deserve to die for the crimes they commit. The real question of capital punishment in this country is, Do we deserve to kill?” In 1607 the British left the United Kingdom to the new world now known as the United States. When the British went to the United States they brought over the death penalty with them. When the British came to the United States there had been some spies that followed them from the European countries. They ended up finding a guy named Kendall who was a spy from spain. The first execution occurred in Virginia where they executed Kendall. After the first execution, it became a regular thing in the new world. People were executed for stealing grapes, trading with the Indians and killing chickens.

Whether the capital punishment, the legal punishment that deprives an individual’s life, is constitutional, moral or necessary is constantly debated. Although the United States maintain the retentionist view of capital punishment that executes hundreds of criminals each year, many revolutionists are challenging our current legal system and trying to abolish the use of capital punishment. In this paper, I will discuss the theory of the capital punishment, and the controversial points of the abolitionist and retentionist debate. Siding with abolitionist argument, I will be presenting my arguments beginning with retentionist view, then move into abolitionist rejection. I will also argue against the

Now on to my second argument. The criminal justice system is flawed and there are many mistakes within it. Firstly, there is an unacceptably high rate at which innocent people are convicted of capital crimes. In a paper written by the Australian Institute of Criminology, they state that the death penalty is often administered capriciously and that there is always a possibility that an innocent person may be executed. Even a respectable institute that studies criminology in Australia states that criminal justice system is flawed, need I say more. Also, there are many examples of miscarriages of justice in Australia. Such as the unfortunate story of Colin Campbell who was executed the day he was sentenced and 86 years later the most damning evidence against him was proven to be falsified and he was finally exonerated. There are many more cases just like Colin’s and if they aren’t key examples of how the criminal justice system is flawed I don’t know what is. All of this leads us to believe that execution under the Federal Death Penalty Act, cuts off the opportunity for exoneration, denies due process and could

The question whether capital punishment; a form of execution generally referred to death by decapitation, hanging, firing squad or lethal injection, that is used by legal systems across the world; should or should not be reintroduced into Australia is a very controversial issue amongst politics, the Australian legal system and the citizens of Australia. With a slightly higher majority of Australian citizens against capital punishment (54%) outweighing the number of people for it (46%) it is unlikely that this vengeful practice will be reintroduced into the Australian legal system over the next few years [http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/currentseries/mr/21-40/mr21/02_exec_summary.html], especially as the aspects of capital punishment would

The criminal justice system is innately flawed; since 1900 twenty three innocent people have been executed in the United States that has been documented (citation needed). Which is one of the reasons why I think it should remain illegal in Canada. The sentence doesn’t deter crime, (citation needed) and in some cases it only exasperates the crime which it was supposed to deter. Also, in order to keep an inmate on death row it costs on average ninety thousand dollars more than keeping an inmate for a life sentence, in the United States (Baskey-East, S. 2014).

However, why should we as Australians allow violent criminals to stay on our streets to possibly harm others? The death penalty does not promote the murder is ok. The death penalty should be in our society to teach the younger generation that if you decide that you are going to commit such a terrible crime, e.g. rape and murder; then this is what is at the road for you. Research done by fearof.net, the fear of death is ranked number 12 out of 100 phobias. We can use the fear of death to our advantage, by scaring the younger generation out of murdering another human being; we can finally stop nearly all murders in Australia. The death penalty is not there to teach people that killing is right, it’s there to bring justice for what violent criminals have

Although the lethal injection is one of the quickest means of execution, it is still unconstitutional due to the fact that problems may occur. Lethal injections are the primary method of execution. Three drugs are usually used in the injection. It is used in all states that have the death penalty as a primary method of execution. When resources are not available, other methods, such as hanging, firing squads, and/or gas chambers, will be used. The drugs of  lethal injections are inserted into a usable vein. If a member of the execution team accidently inserts the needle into a muscle or if the needle becomes clogged, it can result in unbearable pain for the victim. Often times it can be difficult to find a usable vein and the prisoner is strapped

Capital crime is something that is meant for people that are found guilty of committing a serious crime, such as murder, rape, or theft. These are offences that should not be taken lightly but by killing the offender, the government is carrying about the action that they are trying to prevent. Also, the wrong person may be sentenced to death. After this person is executed, there is obviously nothing that can be done for the terrible mistake to be reversed. The death penalty should be abolished because it is more expensive than life imprisonment, numerous innocent people are condemned to death row, and it is cruel and inhumane.