The Pros And Cons Of Murdere Punishment

Unfortunately, wrongful convictions of innocent people sometimes happen in the criminal justice system. According to a new report from the University of Michigan Law School 's National Registry of Exonerations, 2015 set a record for the number of wrongly convicted Americans who received justice; 149 people who were either declared innocent or cleared of their convictions or guilty pleas. Many of them had already served long prison terms for crimes they did not commit (Mencimer, 2016.)

False convictions are an ongoing dilemma in criminal cases. The available research is a significant barrier to understanding the prevalence of suspects being convicted of crimes they did not commit. Ethical considerations and variations in individual law enforcement agency policies contribute to the limited availability of records that often are fragmented, incomplete, and difficult to translate. Critical Information does not flow fluidly across the over the 3,000 counties represented in the United States. The multifaceted nature of crimes results in unlimited categorical variables that may influence outcomes of cases and pose extreme difficulty in uncovering mistaken convictions. There is an overwhelming lack of satisfactory data demonstrating that due process safeguards reach a standard in which capital punishment can be upheld as a constitutional, ethical, and moral option for the overall carriage of justice. The opposite is true, the speculative character and lack of concrete research about false convictions are proof that capital punishment, in the face of executions of innocent human beings, is a negligent, illegitimate, and unjust punishment that should be abolished.

As one of the largest factors of the ban of the death penalty, wrongful convictions are looked at. With the example of Henry McCullom, a man from North Carolina who served 30 years on death row before being proven innocent as an example. The ethics of this case and the morality of the United States are then analyzed offering a look into the irresponsibility of the justice system. The justice system also lacks a sense of accountability for these wrongful convictions.

Paragraph 1: According to Amnesty International, “The death penalty legitimizes an irreversible act of violence by the state and will inevitably claim innocent victims. As long as human justice remains fallible, the risk of executing the innocent can never be eliminated .” International attention has started focusing on the frequent discovery of innocent people convicted as the failure of law enforcement systems. Over the past twenty years there have been many well publicized cases in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States as well as Canada of wrongfully convicted persons. Thus, public confidence has been eroded as unjust conviction represents a triple failure of the criminal justice systems; innocent has been put in jail; a true criminal is privileged to enjoy

The death penalty is put into place when a person of some sort commits murder or rape or something to an extreme extent, is lethally injected and put to death because of the crime.

As we all may realize once a crime is committed the suspect is charged and then sentenced based off the judge’s decision. As we recall a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority. In other words, those who commit minor or major crimes get incarcerated depending how serious is crime. Also, in some cases suspects receive supervised probation and must be watched periodically by an assigned officer. It is understandable that those who commit crimes are held accountable for their actions. Over the past decade families have been destroyed after knowing their significant other will be in jail for a long period of time based off a wrongful conviction. Over the past years victims have been incarcerated wrongfully on charges such as rape or murder. In many cases the victims were coerced to speak, confessions were manipulated to make the detective look good, or the officer yelled and smuggled their face so that the victim can forcefully say anything. A wrongful conviction known as a miscarriage of justice primarily is the conviction and punishment of a person for a crime they did not commit.

Wrongful convictions happen when innocent people are found guilty in criminal trials, or when people are pressured into confessing to crimes they did not commit to evade the death penalty or extreme sentences. These false convictions are a terrible injustice that can demolish a person's life while letting a guilty person be free. The acts of false convictions have not gone unnoticed by the legal system. The amount of these cases have motivated awareness and projects that help free wrongfully convicted prisoners. More than fifty percent of the states do not legally offer compensation for people that have to endure this injustice. While the number of states that do provide reimbursement has risen in the past years, there are more than just financial problems facing these people. New compensation laws give health and restorative services along with cash compensation. These convictions have become a big problem in America, and all the people that experience this issue deserve guidance and support to restore their life.

In the world, if anyone does murder then he gets punishment1 in the form of life imprisonment or capital punishment. A person gets capital punishment when he kills another human. Some people argue that capital punishment is cruel and it should not be used. Life imprisonment is given for the serious crime of murder, rape and other more, in this type of crime criminal have to spend rest of his life in jail. But some people argue that life imprisonment is better than capital punishment. In the world, the debate is going on at many places that imprisonment is better or capital punishment as punishment is better. Does capital punishment save an innocent life? Does capital punishment is reducing crime rates more than imprisonment? By considering the question, it is clear that imprisonment is better than capital punishment because it saves innocent. If any innocent get life imprisonment then he is alive and later on it can prove that he is innocent. But if he gets the death penalty and later on it is proved that he is innocent then it is useless because he is dead. And Katz, Levitt and Shustorovich (2003) suggest that if the quality of life in the prison is low then criminals will be demotivated to do the crime. So by considering this, one can say that imprisonment is better than capital punishment.

Wrongful convictions are one of the most controversial topics in the criminal justice system. A wrongfully convicted victim is one who was falsely accused of a crime and who was found guilty in trial or plead guilty for various other reasons. Some may ask how does a wrongful conviction happen? One study found that a few reasons wrongful convictions may occur are because of disregard of proper procedure such as DNA testing, witness misidentification, and false confessions (Hail-Jares, K., Lowrey-Kinberg, B., Dunn, K., & Gould, J. B., 2017). A wrongful conviction can potentially ruin an individual’s life in many different ways and take precious time away from their years of life that they will never get back.

Capital Punishment has been up for debate as early as the 1700s. Human rights activists, religious groups, and economists have been consistent stakeholders in protest again capital punishment. Human rights activists believe that no judge or jury should be able to decide whether someone lives or dies. Religious groups consider all life to be sacred. And economists have proven that the death penalty is very costly on taxpayers.

Capital punishment, or the death penalty, has been a part of the American Justice System since the begging, but for years it raised much controversy over its social issues, questioning its validity and fairness. The death penalty is the sentence of execution given to someone convicted of a capital crime such as murder or treason. Many civilizations and early societies used the death penalty before in history. Common explanations to be sentenced include war crimes, treason, murder, and espionage. Formerly, capital punishment was accompanied by torture and performed publically. It was often believed to be unprejudiced because it is retribution towards criminals who committed heinous acts. In contrast, it is currently a controversial debate whether or not the death penalty is socially acceptable as many see it is inhumane. The United States currently has five forms of execution include: hanging, beheading, chair electrocution, lethal injection, lethal gas, and firing squad (Gray). Each of them is cruel in their own way. Punishing a person with death is outdated, barbarous, and many nations evolved so they reprimanded this penalty years ago. Government sanctioned capital punishment is wrong and it should be abolished because it could potentially kill the innocent, denies people of rehabilitation, denies a citizen’s right to live, and overall does not benefit society.

Though people only get death row after many trials and concrete proof, there are still many that are innocent and falsely convicted. According to ACLU, between 1973 and 2015, there were 148 exonerations of innocent people from death rows in the modern system. These are the only ones they found out so far, so in reality, the numbers are most likely higher. Only a few innocent people on death row are lucky enough to be found not guilty before their execution. Afterwards, the person has already lost their life, everyone falsely thought they were a murderer, and their families are heartbroken. ACLU also says that one in every 25 defendants sentenced to death is likely innocent. This is clearly a lot and should not be acceptable.

Capital punishment is the killing of a person, legally, as a punishment for a crime committed. Most of the time, people have a hard time deciding whether to be for or against capital punishment. Some people, like myself, think that the punishment depends on how bad the crime committed was. Should capital punishment be illegal or legal?

The first recorded execution in colonial America was that of Capitan George Kendall in 1608. Since then, there have been over 16,000 executions in the United States. Over the years, execution have evolved from hanging, to electric chair, to firing squads, to the now preferred method of lethal injection. Still, there is a lot of controversy surrounding the subject. The idea of killing someone because of a crime that they committed is cruel to many, but others are heavily in favor for the punishment. In fact, many people do not understand that the death penalty is constitutional and effective form of punishment for criminals by eliminating their chance to ever commit the crime again, bringing peace to the victims and their families and exterminating the toxic people from the world.

With convictions and executions, there is always a chance that someone was wrongly filed with charges. What are we to do with these people? In a study of capital convictions from 1900 to 1986 conducted by Radelet and Bedau, 350 cases were identified in which defendants were mistakenly convicted of crimes they did not commit, and of these 350, 24 were executed. Though 24 un-called for executions in 87 years don't sound too bad, the number should be zero. Society must determine whether the risk of wrongly executing an innocent person is worth taking to reap the benefits of executions of convicted murderers.