The Death Penalty Should Be Abolished

Elliot Spitzer states, “Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don 't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.” Although the Death Penalty is meant to kill the ones that have murdered, many innocent people have been executed due to the ignorance of facts during trial. Since this has come to me and my partner’s attention, we are resolved that The United States should change its penal code to abolish the death penalty. The Death Penalty is execution following someone’s conviction of murder or any other serious crime. Abolish is to end the observance or effect of. The Penal Code is a set of criminal laws of a particular country, society, etc. Our courts are not steady, which is why we need to abolish the death penalty.

Why is the death penalty used as a means of punishment for crime? Is this just a way to solve the nations growing problem of overcrowded prisons, or is justice really being served? Why do some view the taking of a life morally correct? These questions are discussed and debated upon in every state and national legislature throughout the country. Advantages and disadvantages for the death penalty exist, and many members of the United States, and individual State governments, have differing opinions. Yet it seems that the stronger arguments, and evidence such as cost effectiveness, should lead the common citizen to the opposition of Capital Punishment.

I would like about whether or not the United States should abolish the death penalty. The United States should not abolish this because those who commit a capital felony which is punishable by imprisonment or death, should serve a capital punishment which is the death penalty. Many believe that certain crimes such as rape and murder should punishable by the death penalty. Although many also see it as inhumane, many also view murder and rape as inhumane. One can view this as part of Hammburi’s Code law that states “An eye for an eye.” Capital punishment has ben around for thousands of years; beginning even before the ancient Greeks and Romans. At that time, there were many different ways to carry out capital punishment such as, beheading, stoning and electrocution (PBS).

How would you like to be put into a situation where you or a loved one is innocently executed by the death penalty? I know that I wouldn’t. Seeing this, the death penalty is a very controversial issue in which I believe that it should be banned from its allowance in the United States. The three biggest reasons for this are that innocent people are wrongly executed, it is also a form of revenge, and mental illness plagues some victims of the death penalty

Death-in-prison sentences should be abolished because they go against the Declaration of Independence and they don’t allow the juveniles to make their own decisions when they are adults. This sentencing will not allow them to have a family, work, or learn. When and if they get out of prison, they will have no social skills and they will have to go back to school and start from where they ended prior to being in prison, and for some of these children that is as far back as 7th grade. These children should have the opportunity to stand before a parole board when they are 18-21 and allow them to make a judgement for their release, based on how the prisoner has been acting while in the incarceration system.

The death penalty has been around for thousands of years, from the codification of twenty-five laws by King Hammurabi of Babylon to today with many of our political nominees for president in support of continued use of the death penalty. Those in favor of the death penalty cite deterrence and punishment as their main reasons. However, in reality the death penalty is a drain on state and local finances, there is no evidence that is serves as a deterrent to crime, and has been shown to put the lives of innocent people in jeopardy. The death should be abolished, it has caused loss of finances, loss of life, and has un-proportionately affected the poor and the impoverished people of the United States.

The uses of the death penalty vary. There is not just one way someone will be put to death when on death row. One of the major ways a inmate facing the death penalty is put to death is the electric chair it is the usage of a wooden or medal chair with a leather head band that has a connection of wires that send voltage through it to melt the brain and kill the criminal this is the most widely used one. Another heavily used procedure to put a criminal to death is by lethal injection which is a shot in the arm which knocks the criminal uncurious than stop the heart. A way that was used in the early way of execution in the 1800 through the 1900’s was death by hanging it was favored by the early American because it sent a message to the community as they would watch in the center of town. The death penalty had ways by which you can use it most people on death row tend to stay on death row rather than be

The execution of criminals has been performed by nearly every society to date. The death penalty came to the Americas when European settlers brought the idea of capitol punishment from Britain. The ideology behind taking someone’s life for crimes they have committed is a simple one. If a person commits a hennas crime such as murder or rape, they shall receive the death penalty. In more recent times we now see many countries abolishing the death penalty. The trend suggests that the capitol punishment policies still implemented in the United States may be outdated, but yet there is a large majority in the United States who feel capital punishment is necessary. In contrast there are many that feel that it’s immoral, unconstitutional and should be abolished. The political issue is whether or not capital punishment should be outlawed in the United States. An explanation of capitol punishment and some positions from those who are for and against capital punishment will be given. Next, review the positions of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, and interest groups on the issue and how these positions interplay with values of freedom, order, and equality. Then argue as to why capitol punishment should be outlawed.

A major debate discussed frequently in today’s society is whether or not the death penalty is the right thing to do to punish those who have committed heinous crimes. While some states have allowed the death penalty to be used in certain cases, others have outright removed it as a choice. Why is this debate important? Well as U.S. citizens we need to make a decision of what is the best way to deal with criminals. Is it better to execute these criminals or incarcerate them? This paper will discuss the considered pros and cons of the death penalty and what my view is, on this topic.

For lawmakers, keeping crime low is a two part problem: prevent convicted felons from breaking out or being released from preventing more crimes, and discourage people from committing crimes in the first place. All around the United States, the death penalty is debated, scrutinized, revealed, torn apart, and praised. Death as a capital punishment sparks so much attention because of its extreme logistical and ethical problems: Is it efficient? Does a human have the moral authority to decide if another may live? These are the questions asked by many, and ask they must if we wish to have any hope of reaching a solution to the ever-present question: Is the death penalty an effective means of justice? The death penalty, whatever its moral faults, is an effective method of employing and ensuring justice across the United States judicial system because the prospect of death acts as a deterrent for criminals as well as an assurance that those criminals sentenced will never go on to

Many criminals who commit murder are sentenced to death for the crimes they have committed. The death penalty is a highly controversial practice and the question that must be raised is: Should society continue to use the death penalty as a punishment for heinous crimes? Currently, this turbulent topic continues to be argued. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, there are already eighteen states that have abolished this archaic form of justice. Our society is moving towards a time and place where the death penalty is no longer an acceptable form of punishment. The use of the death sentence should be abolished from the justice system. The death sentence is an ineffective form of punishment that is morally wrong, potentially causes unnecessary deaths of innocent people, is costly, and does not accomplish the task that it has been instated to fulfill which is the prevention of crime.

the years 1973 until 2009, over 135 inmates were released from death row as new evidence surfaced and proved their innocence (Schmalleger 360). This is just one of the many alarming facts that assist in the argument that the death penalty should be completely abolished. As the public opinion of capital punishment changes, there has been a drastic shift in the way states are carrying out death penalty sentences. Since 2007, seven states have abolished the death penalty as a possible punishment for crime (Schmalleger 369). Even though many states still have the ability to sentence an offender to death, only ten states have practiced an execution since 2007 (Dieter 815). While many argue the death penalty is necessary to protect society and can serve as retribution to the victim 's family, capital punishment should be abolished because it violates religious beliefs, and is a cruel and costly alternative to life without the possibility of parole, and it gives the criminal a way out by not allowing the criminal to take responsibility for crimes they committed.

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.

We often say, “We are only human, we make mistakes,” as a common phrase. We, as humans, are known to make mistakes. However, in the case of the death penalty, making an error can prove to be lethal. The death penalty imposes an irreversible deed on a human being. Once a person’s life is taken away, there is no way to give it back. The main reason people have different views is because of cultural, political, social, and ethical reasons. Murder is wrong. Since childhood, we have been taught this truth. It has been implanted in our brains that taking the life of another is wrong. Is that not the definition of murder? It is inhumane for us to tolerate the killing of another person. Violence cannot be the solution to crime. The death penalty should be abolished on the grounds that it does not prove to be an effective deterrent, it carries the risk of taking the life of an innocent soul, and there are flaws in the judicial system that lead to trials being unfair.

The death penalty has been an issue that has continually caused tension in today’s society. The main discussion over this is whether or not the death penalty serves as a valid and justified form of punishment. We have reached the point where if the topic is brought up, extremists on both sides immediately begin to argue the matter. One side says increase in crime rate, the other says failure to discourage crime; one says failure to rehabilitate, the other says it saves lives; one says justice and retribution, the other says revenge. As a society we know that crime is a major part of our lives, and we are all aware that something must be done about it. The only problem now is coming together and finding common ground as to how we solve it.