The Death Penalty Is Not Guaranteed That Justice Will Be Served

In this paper I will be discussing everything you need to know about the death penalty such as its pros and cons. While the innocent can be killed, the death penalty has its pros because it prevents them from killing again if they are released or have escaped from prison, it helps overpopulated prisons, and it can help victims’ families get justice and closure. Not only can the innocent be killed, but in the past the death penalty was very inhumane. To some its feels right but to others they feel like 2 wrongs don’t make a right. Most people think that the defendant deserves the death penalty, but what does the defendants’ family think?

One example of the closure that is provided can be seen with a victim of Boston Marathon Bombing, Adrianne Haslet-Davis. In a quote for Time magazine, Adrianne expressed her feelings on the situation. “Many in the survivor community feel like the death penalty offers a sense of justice being done. And that’s what his sentence felt like to me” (Cushing, Renny and Adrianne Haslet-Davis). After the perpetrator was sentenced to death for his actions, Haslet-Davis was able to leave the courtroom feeling satisfied, knowing that the man who had caused her and so many others harm would finally get the justice he deserved. Even more evidence of the justice and closure families of the victims can be seen through the results of a recent study. According to the recent study, over 50% of the families of victims felt fulfilled once the person accused of committing that crime was sentenced to death. (Do families of victims feel justice with the death penalty). The family of a murder victim would most likely not be satisfied if the suspected killer was able to keep his life after taking someone else’s. Knowing that the killer would pay the price for his actions with his life would be a rewarding feeling. The fact that the death penalty provides justice and closure for the families of the victims and the victims themselves is yet

The “Does the death penalty bring closure to a victim’s family?” article shares how this family believes that the death penalty does not necessarily bring closure, but it brought relief. I feel that providing two different perspectives will cause the audience to be open to my findings and have questions that I will later address in the paper. At the end of the introduction, I will share my ethos on the topic. While I do not have a lot of ethos I can share that I, like the readers, want to understand the topic more as I am now a tax payer and if the U.S. should still use this form of

The use of the death penalty has been known to help to give closure to the families of the victim and the killer to help ease their

“Enjoy life today, yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come,” said an unknown author. The death penalty faces many pros and cons as to why it should be legal and illegal. Capital punishment is another name for the death penalty. So many people are clueless as to what the death penalty even is or what it does. The death penalty is the punishment of execution, administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime. Crimes to be punished by death differs from every state and country. Usually the death penalty comes to action when the capital crime is murder or rape; capital offense usually means bail will not be an option. Even though the death penalty gives closure to the victim’s families who have suffered so much, the death penalty

As far back as one can look into human civilization, justice for a murder victim has always been by taking the life of the killer. In today’s society capital punishment is needed to defend it from further harm, bring justice and/or vengeance to the victims of the loved ones, and encourage psychological deterrence. As of today, there are thirty-two states which offer the only just punishment for a crime without parallel and eighteen states having abolished the death penalty.

“To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.” -Desmond Tutu

Yet, the punishment of life sentence allows criminal to maintain social interaction and inflicts much less pain on his acquaintances. In terms of consciousness and happiness, the capital punishment deprives criminal of his perception and sensation, two essential abilities of human beings, and permanently excludes him from all beauty and enjoyments in the world. Although retentionists might say that the long-term imprisonment is more painful since it evokes an endless feeling of tediousness and suffering, it is undeniable that the capital punishment irreversibly eradicates the possibility of feeling happiness. Literally a denial of life, capital punishment is incomparable to other punishment in depth and severity, while at the same time it is the harshest punishment that has no crime deserving it because an individual’s humanity can be denied under no circumstance.

The statistical evidence presented in this portion of the presentation was designed, in addition to edifying the audience, to trigger group identity and an associated norm as prescribed by Goldstein et al. Similarly, we also addressed the closure argument, seeking to dispel the rumor that the death penalty somehow provided closure and was beneficial to the families of the victim. We showed that over 70% of the husbands and wives who live through the process of a death-penalty proceedings ended up divorced, separated or with a substance abuse problem (Death Penalty Info). In addition to the counter arguments, we also supplied a strong argument in favor of our proposition to supplant any of the abandoned beliefs that may have occurred as a

The death penalty does not deter criminals from committing crime. Most criminals who commit crimes do not have intentions of being caught and believe that they are invincible from the repercussions of their actions. Because of this, the death penalty really does not deter criminals from committing a crime. In fact, the death penalty could be considered an “easy way out” because the criminal does not have to spend several months, years, or even the rest of his or her life behind bars with little contact with the outside world. The criminal can just die and no longer have to suffer with knowing what he or she did, how it has affected others, and how it will continue to affect his or her life. Also, many criminals end up committing suicide in prison because they do not want to have to spend every day locked in a jail cell for extended periods of time.

I. Introduction A. An eye for an eye, when discussing capital punishment, means someone has earned the death penalty. B. Today, many families of murder victims have suffered at the hands of a criminal, that gave no intrinsic value to their victim’s lives. Murder without remorse, until the perpetrator was caught and prosecuted. Then, sentenced to prison, where the criminal is provided three square meals a day and a warm bed to lay their head. While, the victim lies in a box, beneath the cold, hard ground.

Last but not least, from a sociologic perspective, capital punishment does not work as intended, to deter crime rate, rather, it might brutalize individuals, at the same time does nothing good to the victim’s family other than brutal vengeance. The origin of death penalty is served as a vehicle to put a warning for those potential future criminals that such kind of behavior will lead to death. However, so far, no clear evidence can be seen that capital punishment, as a mechanism of deterrent, actually cut down the local crime rate. Ironically, a reversal trend was found by Death Penalty Information Center (2010) in the USA that the death penalty leads to an increase in local murder rate. To die might be too easy for the mindless murderers. Also, for the relatives or friends of criminals put into death through capital punishment, they are more likely to be

While some families wish for the death penalty, others wish for them to remain in prison to rot. Meanwhile, the expectations of the execution prevent closure. On the United States, for example the current duration of stay on death row prior to executions is sixteen years. Just like the convicted person on death row and their families, victims seeking revenge are affected by cycles of hop and frustration if the execution is postponed. While the other side is hoping for life, the other side is hoping for death. For many victims seeking revenge, the retention of the possibility of the death penalty is like passing to a thirsty man a glass of salty water.

Four major issues in capital punishment are debated, most aspects of which were touched upon by Seton Hall’s panel discussion on the death penalty. The first issue stands as deterrence. A major purpose of criminal punishment is to conclude future criminal conduct. The deterrence theory suggests that a rational person will avoid criminal behavior if the severity of the punishment outweighs the benefits of the illegal conduct. It is believed that fear of death “deters” people from committing a crime. Most criminals would think twice before committing murder if they knew their own lives were at stake. When attached to certain crimes, the penalty of death exerts a positive moral influence, placing a stigma on certain crimes like manslaughter, which results in attitudes of horror to such acts.

According to opponents of the death penalty, the death penalty, not only does not heal the wounds and hearts of the victim’s family and society, but it will also inflict more hatred and vengeance in the society. As Morgan (2011) said in her chapter “The Death Penalty Does Not Deliver Justice”, death penalty does not allow the relative of the victims to forgive and forget. For instance, she believes that seeing the cold-blooded execution of the criminal will not bring any peace or healing, rather, she believes that being involved in activities with other friends and relatives of the victim, such as the memorial service for the victim will be more effective in bring about peace and healing. In addition, she believes that arresting rather than executing the offender will bring more