The Pros And Cons Of The Death Penalty

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?

) Moreover, the pattern of this kind of murderer, the killer, is almost by definition a person who takes his chances like the soldier of fortune he thinks he is. (37) Most killers do not engage in anything like a cost-benefit analysis. They are impulsive, and they kill impulsively. If capital punishment does deter criminals, it can do so only indirectly. Potential murderers must have some standard of right and wrong. They must acknowledge morals issues. They must be without mental illness and they know and have the capacity to think about what they are doing. This conception of general deterrence seems deeply flawed because it rests upon a doubtful conception of how this murderous population internalizes social norms. Although the perpetrator

Death is something that a lot of people think about, but do people think about the Death Penalty? Having been given the death penalty means that someone is going to be put to death by a lethal injection or an electric chair; There are more ways, but the injection and the electric chair are the most used. There are many different opinions surrounding the idea of death penalties; which some people think the death penalty should be used more and some believe the complete opposite.

In Kellow Chesney's book The Victorian Underworld illustrates that the Victorians tried to use the death penalty as a means of controlling criminal elements in forms of hangings, lethal injection,Electrocution, and firing squads in order to prevent crime( the victorian underworld). in Victorian times, the death penalty was used as a means of controlling. There should be abolishment of this because of the countless innocent men and women being put to death for the stated purpose of preventing crime out of fear. So There should not be a death penalty because it violates human rights, it does not deter crime, and is a cruel and unusual punishment.

Should killers live to take another life? If we let the felons live, what will stop them from getting that rush or thrill of murder again? It is important that we take murderers off this planet for the safety of future generations to come. This is where the death penalty comes into place. What type of feelings would you encounter knowing your children were in danger on a daily basis? We are capable of putting certain people away for our safety. The death penalty may be expensive, but it should stand nationwide on the grounds that it lowers crime rates and it is justified.

On December 23, 1991, a fire destroyed a Texan home, belonging to Cameron Todd Willingham. The fire killed his three daughters and Willingham was the only one too survive. In his trial in 1992, the prosecutors claimed that he had intentionally started the fire killing his three children. Even though he testified innocent. On October 29, 1992, he was sentenced to death. Thirteen years later, on February 17, 2004 Willingham was executed by lethal injection. Months after he was executed there was an investigation questioning his trial. The evidence they had was not valid and he was found innocence. So, why did they execute him? They had no real evidence that he started the fire. There is nothing they can do now because they already killed him

What is the death penalty? The death penalty is a punishment of execution. There are many methods of executions, such as lethal injection, beheading, hanging, electrocution, or shooting in the back of the head, either by one person or a firing squad. Many people have different opinions on the death penalty, whether it should be legal or not. The death penalty argument in the US has left the country divided for a long time. There are thirty-three states where the death penalty is legal and seventeen states have abolished it. In my opinion, the death penalty shouldn’t be legal throughout the entire country. It breaches basic human rights: the right to life and the right to live free from torture. There are multiple reasons why the death penalty shouldn’t be legalized, including, arbitrary, fallibility, high cost, and deterrence.

In conclusion, I believe the death penalty is unjustified for all cases, including murder cases, carjacking, and etc. Although It is constitutional and does not violate the Eighth Amendment which prohibits the federal government from imposing excessive bail, fines and cruel and unusual punishments, including torture, I still do not believe that two wrongs make a right especially when it wagers one life over

The world has had the death penalty around for a long time, doing justice. Criminals who are on death row are obviously there for a reason, and it is almost always because of the crimes they have committed against the public. If we chose to let them live a life sentence out in jail, they will waste away and die as it is. The death penalty is not a crime in the world, or the country, it is a savior.

The death penalty is often regarded as an issue of ethics and morality, but people often fail to realize that there are many other factors that make it unjustifiable. The system currently in place, and any system the will be developed in the future, is fundamentally flawed on many levels. As a system made by humans filled with vengeance, it fails to take into consideration things such as cost to the state, racial discrimination, potential murder of innocence, failure as a deterrent, inhumane medical processes, and cases of mental illness. These are just some of the reasons as to why the death penalty is an unethical, immoral, and barbaric form of justice. The death penalty, for these reasons, should be abolished in the United States and any

“An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth” is how the phrase goes. Belonging to Hammurabi’s code, this ancient motto has become the basis of a great political debate over the past few decades - the death penalty (US History). The legal definition of the death penalty, also known as capital punishment, is a sentence of execution for murder, treason, and other capital crimes, which are punishable by death (Legal Information Institute). This is an issue that has the United States quite divided. While there are many supporters of the death penalty, there is also a large amount of opposition. Currently, there are thirty-two states in which the death penalty is legal and there are eighteen states that have abolished it (Death Penalty Information Center).

In 1879, the United States Supreme Court ruled, by a vote of 9-0, that execution by firing squad was not cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution. This began a long debate on whether or not a government reserves the right to punish those who have taken a life by taking their lives. There are many reasons as to why someone would be against capital punishment: it is not our right as humans to play God, it is against the constitution, the threat of capital punishment is not a valid deterrent, it is morally corrupt to take a life. All of these points are valid, and they represent the mindset of millions of Americans; however, capital punishment is a valuable asset to be reserved for only “the most heinous murders and the most brutal and conscienceless murderers” (Alice).

Criminals are sadly apart of our society and have been since the beginning of time, and it

The death penalty is the ultimate punishment for some of the most heinous and brutal crimes. The majority of death penalty cases in the United States is almost exclusively for the crime of murder, including but not limited to murder related to smuggling of aliens, genocide, murder committed in the federal government facility, and murder committed during an offense against a local law-enforcement official or other person aiding in a federal investigation, just to name a few. (federal) New York City alone has an annual cost of $167,732 which is what it takes to feed, house, and guard each inmate. According to a study that the Vera Institute of Justice released in 2012 found that the aggregate cost of prisons in 2010 and 40 states that participated was $39 billion. (NewYorkTimes.com)

“A clear majority of voters (61%) would choose a punishment other than the death penalty for murder, including life with no possibility of parole…” (DPIC, 2017). More than half of the population in the United States is classified as being religious. Religion is a delicate topic because of how people feel towards it, presenting a very loyal and intense belief, no matter what religion. Whether the death penalty be abolished or supported, if religion taken into consideration; there is a strong belief that though it may be the capital crime, death penalty should not be an option. There are five forms of death penalty in the in United States, in most countries lethal injection is the primary method, as for the second options include electrocution, lethal gas, firing squad, and only in Washington; hanging. Death penalty is a commonly asked question of whether it is good or bad, considering three significant points being that millions are spent; discrimination and a gamble; misconduct, perjury and false accusations are all matters to believe that the death penalty is ludicrous.