The Pros And Cons Of Prison Punishment

“The year was 1927; James Aldermon was hanged for murder. This was the first case of a prison execution by hanging. Hanging would be the method of execution until the 1980s,” my professor stated after clearing his throat. Staring out the window of my 8 a.m execution methods class I began imagining myself on that wood platform. Jonathan Brown is a criminal, I hear the executioner say as I stand on a wooden platform with a blindfold over my eyes. That man deserved it I thought. Now I am willing to

alone, the death penalty is not legal in all 50 states, therefore overrunning the prisons with unnecessary bodies. Due to this, there has been an overall increase in the gang activity within state and federal prison. The death penalty shows that violent, brutal, and heinous crimes will not be tolerated and the offenders will be punished to the highest extent. Execution should be used as the highest form of punishment by the means of a rightful conviction. National government forcing the death sentence

The death penalty is not constitutional as it violates the eight and the fourteenth amendments. The eighth amendment says that there shall not be cruel and unusual punishment. Cruel was defined as excessively painful or brutal (Thisnation n.d.). The supreme court has ruled before that the penalty was not excessively painful. They have however, said that the death penalty was unusual (Thisnation n.d.). The fourteenth amendment is about equal rights of life, liberty, and or property. The death penalty

on this issue. Banning it, not banning it, adding different limitations, etc. One common stance is the death penalty should be banned in the US. There are pros and cons of the death penalty, however, the cons outweigh the pros. The death penalty, otherwise known as capital punishment, is a punishment for certain types of crimes. “The punishment of execution, administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime” (Dictionary.com). There are nineteen states that have already banned the death

1. Morality PRO: "The crimes of rape, torture, treason, kidnapping, murder, larceny, and perjury pivot on a moral code that escapes apodictic [indisputably true] proof by expert testimony or otherwise. But communities would plunge into anarchy if they could not act on moral assumptions less certain than that the sun will rise in the east and set in the west. Abolitionists may contend that the death penalty is inherently immoral because governments should never take human life, no matter what the

more people in a prison the more money it takes for that prison to run. In 1995 it cost $49 billion dollars to run all of the prisons in all 50 states. Since 1995 there has been an increase in the amount of people incarcerated in prison. With this increase in prison population there is also an increase in the amount of money it costs to run prisons. The cost difference in an entire trial and prosecution of a death sentence and the entire trials and prosecution and life in prison of a LWOP sentence

Through this paper we will explore the pros, cons, and whether the death penalty serves to morally normalize society. The death penalty is a major debate in the United States that many feel is wrong, and has been for many years. There are thirty-five states in the United States that still uphold the death penalty. Out of the other fifteen states that have abolished the death penalty three of

The most severe punishment for all crimes is being sentenced to death. Capital punishment has been the center of controversy for many years and will be a continuously debated issue here in the United States. Also referred to as the death penalty, capital punishment is the lawful infliction of death as punishment for a crime and has been used even in ancient times for a various array of offenses. Back in ancient times, executions were something done publicly in hopes that it would serve as a warning

for the model they felt best fit our justice system. While a change might be well needed, both sentencing models pose their own pros and cons each model will be defined and the positives and negatives will be gone over throughout the paper. Indeterminate sentencing is a form of punishment in which a prison term is imposed after conviction for a crime, but

instruction with no exceptions. Death penalty is the punishment of a criminal offender ruled by the court. About 13,000 people have been legally executed in the US (White). Thirty-one states currently have the death penalty. It is expensive, makes us murderers too and doesn’t truly give justice. Even though some religious people believe there is nothing wrong with the death penalty, death penalty is wrong because the punishment of life in prison is worse than being on death row and it is expensive