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.

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).

More than two centuries ago, the death penalty was commonplace in the United States, but today it is becoming increasingly rare. In the article “Should the Death Penalty Be Abolished?”, Diann Rust-Tierney argues that it should be abolished, and Joshua Marquis argues that it should not be abolished. Although the death penalty is prone to error and discrimination, the death penalty should not be abolished because several studies show that the death penalty has a clear deterrent effect, and we need capital punishment for those certain cases in which a killer is beyond redemption.

The death penalty is a very controversial topic in America today, the question is do we keep the death penalty or abolish it for life imprisonment without parole. America should abolish the death penalty and should stick to life imprisonment. One reason is that the death penalty is not undoable once your dead there is no going back. There has been many miscarried death penalties in the U.S., and these mistakes cause a lot of sorrow and depression for families and their loved ones. The death penalty is also too expensive. It costs America less to keep an inmate in jail for life than it does to execute them. This is why America should abolish the death penalty.

B. Supporters of the death penalty argue that the death penalty provides retribution to grieving families and avenges the murder of the victim.

Capital punishment has been a constant heated debate throughout the world, let alone, America. This punishment, also known as the death penalty, is when a person who has been convicted by the court of law can be sentenced to death. Many may argue that Capital Punishment is inhumane, portrays social injustice and does not guarantee deterrence. With thirty two states that still use this form of punishment, passing an abolishment on the death penalty would be a wasteful time-consuming act when there are other social problems we should advert our attention towards, especially when bills and laws can take up to twenty years to pass through each level of government. A just society requires the death penalty for the taking of lives. The death penalty is a necessary punishment in the modern age due to increasing terrorism, serial killers, and heinous crimes that are being committed. It is not vengeful, just fair. Capital Punishment deters crime, provides closure and vindication, and prevents the power of re-offending using retribution. As a society we should

Since the state has no power to give life, it should not exercise its power to take a life either. After all, the judicial system is not a fool-proof system. The risk of putting an innocent human being to death by capital punishment, cannot be ruled out. The only purpose it serves is retribution or revenge. Therefore, the death penalty must be abolished. The death penalty is prone to errors that may have led to the execution of wrongfully convicted people. There have been 330 post-conviction DNA exonerations here in the U.S (Innocence Project).

The death penalty is a punishment of execution for a criminal that has convicted a serious crime. Crime rates go up throughout the years, but still the death penalty is not a way to find a solution to the world’s problems. Due that the death penalty costs more than sending a criminal to prison for 40 years, does not stop any form of crime, but it just increases it, and it is not a satisfying form of punishment. Therefore, the death penalty should be removed!

Since their declaration of independence, America had incorporated many aspects of Great Britain’s culture; one of those aspects include the death penalty, which began in 1608 at the time of the Jamestown executions. The death penalty, a topic discussed since it began, includes death by electric shock, gas chamber, hanging, firing squad, and, most commonly used, lethal injection. In 2014, it took an Arizona man two hours and fifteen times the normal amount of medicine to die with lethal injection. Knowing that the outcome of the death penalty may cause immense pain, the use of the death penalty should be illegal in all states throughout the United States.

While researching about Capital Punishment also known as the “Death Penalty,” there were lots of disturbing facts about the subject and also learned enough about it to where I have come to the conclusion that it should be abolished. The Death Penalty is the most severe punishment known to man; it takes experienced law enforcement officials to execute the criminal convicted and it’s unnecessary to do so. There’s no excuse why it shouldn't be abolished because of a few reasons; it punishes the innocent to die, it’s a cruel and unusual punishment, there is a high cost to execute a person every time, and also it fails to present guilty criminals the potential to change and rejoin society. In this essay I will elaborate on the Death Penalty and why it is an unjust system

In 2016, there were only 20 people executed in the United States (Death Penalty Info). Every year, many people are sentenced with the death penalty. As a result, the debate between whether or not the death penalty should be abolished has been argued throughout the year. Many advocates argue to keep the death penalty because of new science advances, retribution, cost, and the amount of cruelty. However, getting rid of the death penalty is necessary because there are innocent lives lost, a lack of diversity, and better alternatives.

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.

This essay explores the ‘death penalty’ and why it no longer exists in the United Kingdom, but does in other countries worldwide, and whether or not it should be reintroduced. Capital punishment is a practice of which criminals, when convicted of a serious crime known as a ‘capital crime’ are executed. Capital punishment was abolished in 1969 in the United Kingdom. The term capital was derived from the Latin word ‘Capitalis’, meaning the head and a ‘capital crime’ was originally punishable by the severing of the head. The death penalty dates as far back as the Ancient Laws of China, where the death penalty was established as a punishment for crimes. Focusing on the United Kingdom, before the death penalty was abolished, crimes such as rape, murder, treason, espionage and arson were considered punishable by death. In today’s day there is no crime worse than murder that can be considered punishable by death. ‘A Life for a Life’ some would say, whereas others would ‘forgive but never forget’. There are concerns that innocent people are getting convicted and later executed only to be found not guilty afterwards. For example there are southern states in America, particularly Texas, that hold the highest death penalty rates making the likelihood of convicting and executing the wrong person at its highest. Although not always used, 58 countries, worldwide, still support capital punishment as a sentence according to Amnesty International’s figures in December 2009, and, since 1985,

As society has advanced and time has progressed, it has become apparent that capital punishment should be abolished worldwide. Around the world, various countries continue to practice this brash, inhumane punishment. The legal system is intended to regulate citizen’s behaviour which aims to provide a smooth functioning society. When someone is sentenced to death, the legal system loses the “fair” aspect of the proceedings, as under no circumstances is the death penalty “fair”. Capital punishment should be abolished because it violates Section 12 and Section 7 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom, it goes against the teachings of the church, and it creates the possibility for someone to be wrongfully executed.

In 1492, when the Europeans came to the new world, they brought the practice of capital punishment with them ("Part 1:"). The official definition of capital punishment is "the legally authorized killing of someone as punishment for a crime"(Oxford). Throughout the years, the death penalty has evolved and has been present in most legal systems around the world. Though, as capital punishment has evolved, so has humans ' sense of what 's right and what 's wrong. These days, many people question the morality of exercising the death penalty. Over half of the country still supports the death penalty, but this is "a drop of 22 percentage points from peak support in 1996"(Kiener). This statistic shows that Americans are beginning to turn from the barbaric laws that are defined as capital punishment. Personally, I believe that the use of capital punishment should be eradicated completely from this world because it is unethical, expensive, not 100 percent accurate, and does not effectively punish the criminal.