Should The Death Penalty Remain Instated

Also, our justice system shows more sympathy for criminals than it does for the victims. Isn’t it time that we put the emphasis of our criminal justice system back on protecting the victim rather than the accused. Usually, a person who's already on death row has almost always committed crimes before this one. A very long line of victims has been waiting for this kind of justice. We do need justice for the current and the past victims, as well.

Should we as Americans be the ones to judge someone to death? That is what happens every time that a criminal is sentenced to death. The death penalty is a major debate that Americans have faced for many years. Who are we though to commit a crime against one who committed the wrongful crime? Doesn’t this make us just as guilty as the criminal? Through this paper we will explore the pros, cons, and whether the death penalty serves to morally normalize society.

After many years of having the death penalty In 1960 people began to suggest that they abolish the death penalty due to how cruel it was. Due to this suggestion the law on the death penalty changed in 1976, only those who were convicted of intentional homicide would be executed. Although they had changed the laws many states still disagreed with the death penalty. Those states that did not agree with the death penalty fought and had it taken out. Ever since that day the laws on the death penalty in the United States have not changed. Death penalty is a punishment of execution by someone who’s legally in charge of a capital crime. Crime rate is a count of crimes that have been done. Execute is to be murdered in a planned fashion. The death penalty should be abolished because it does not help to lower the murder or crime rate, many times innocent people are wrongly executed, and it adds cost to the government and tax

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.

This argument, rooted in the assumption “that people are afraid of death and will do anything to avoid it”. Due in part to its reliance on conventional wisdom, both the argument and underlying assumption appear to carry with them significant weight as it relates to penal philosophy; however, as demonstrated by numerous studies related to crime and punishment, the validity of such arguments is rested on unstable grounds.

With all the jails in the United States being overcrowded with convicts with serious crimes, and doing life without parole. I start to wonder what the impact would be if the United States allowed the death penalty to be used in all fifty states?

Many criminals take the lives of or hurt many people around them. They are later released after doing time in prisons to go on the streets again where they will do the same things over again. "[W]e reserve the death penalty in the United States for the most heinous murders and the most brutal and conscienceless murderers. To sentence killers like those described above to less than death would fail to do justice because the penalty – presumably a long period in prison – would be grossly disproportionate to the heinousness of the crime. Prosecutors, jurors, and the loved ones of murder victims understand this essential point…” Death penalty does the justice right for seriously violent criminals instead of having them do time in prisons to be released.

Since 2000, there have been over 200 exonerations from death row. More than half of these exonerations are because of DNA evidence that is found which proves a defendant innocent. The reason for these exonerations is that people make mistakes, there is no way to be fully positive of somebody else’s guilt. In some cases, evidence found against a defendant could just come down to bad timing. People may agree or disagree with capital punishment because it can become a very controversial topic. The main argument against the death penalty is that it is no longer morally correct and goes against certain beliefs. The death penalty should remain illegal in Canada because it costs more for taxpayers than life without the possibility of parole, it

The late George Carlin joked: “In prisons, before they give you a lethal injection, they swab your arm with alcohol! […] Well, they don’t want you to get an infection” (Carlin). Ironically, prisoners are treated more humanely when they are on Death Row than if they were standard prisoners. The current process allows for the prisoner to be killed, but is an attempt to prevent degradation of human life. Although the current regulations on the death penalty adhere to the Eighth Amendment (a ban on cruel and unusual punishment), many are upset with the manner in which the execution is carried out(Salgo). Robert Blecker argues that the death penalty should remain lawful and has faith in the government to find a constitutional way to do so,

Many victims think it's okay to kill murderers, Why? Because they think it gives a relief to victims, they won't be scared no more. The criminals can feel the same way victims did(balanced). Hurt, Scared, Lost, Hopeless and helpless, Trying their best to escape. But the only bad thing is death row shows the systems has more sympathy for criminals than the victims hat suffered(Balanced).

But nothing scares people more than the idea of death, thus with this criminals won’t be tempted to commit a serious crime without chance of paying the ultimate price for their actions. This helps protect people from murders because the crime rates will decrease. We can argue that fear is the strongest emotion we have, and if we use it by inflicting it into criminals, then our streets will be a safer place. This deference factor has been around for years, “Death Penalty Curriculum” states, “Then in 1973 Isaac Ehrlich employed a new kind of analysis which produced results showing that for every inmate who was executed, 7 lives were spared because others were deterred from committing murder.”[5] These types of results suggest that this method of deference has been around for a while, so if we adopt this form of Capital Punishment we will decrease criminal activity by just inflicting this fear into criminals.

It is human nature to want to do what is against the rules set by a superior power, even Adam and Eve disobeyed God when He directly stated not to eat the apple from the specific tree. Some other valid arguments could be that sending these criminals away will cost too much money, seeing that life in prison and even the death penalty costs well over $1 million. Furthermore, it may encourage rapists to murder their victims afterwards and hide the body since at that point rape and first degree murder would have sentenced them to life in prison regardless. However, there is an absolute 100% way to prevent being charged for rape and murder: do not rape and do not murder-- simple as

I do believe in capital punishment. I believe that if someone were to commit a capital murder, they should be sentenced to lethal injection. I think capital punishment brings closure to the family, and the public. It helps ease their pain knowing the person who committed the horrific crime is no longer living.

During my assessment I will be exploring some reasons why I do or do not think Capital Punishment should be re-instated. The definition of Capital Punishment is the death penalty, one can receive this by committing a Capital Offence. A Capital Offence is a horrific crime as implied by ‘Capital’ because a capital could link to the Leader of that country because Capital is usually used to refer to a place of importance. Some examples of Capital Offences are: Killing, Espionage, Treason, Homicide and Gang Members.

Some people believed that killing the murderers would keep more innocent victims safe and alive. For instance, the case of Tim Mcveigh who was executed by killing the 168 people in the Oklahoma City bombing, or John Wayne Gacy who was committed 33 murders. If they were still alive, we wouldn’t know what would happen next. They might kill more people. However, we are still killing more people and innocent lives. In fact, the authors of the “Rate of False Conviction of Criminal Defendants Who are Sentenced to Death,” stated that "A conservative estimate of the proportion of erroneous convictions of defendants sentenced to death in the United States from 1973 through 2004 is 4.1%,