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?

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.

During the year of 1608, the first recorded execution took place, killing Captain George Kendall. Since that moment, as the United States of America expanded, the death penalty became part of the law. Killing 1465 criminals since 1796, the death penalty has kept numerous crimes from happening. The death penalty is supported by the victim of the crime’s family, follows the “eye for an eye” rule, is a deterrent of crimes and should not be abolished.

The Death Penalty is the punishment of execution to someone who legally by court of law convicted a capital crime. In the United States of America this is mainly used for aggravated murder. Additionally this means that the murder has circumstances that are severe. For instance it was planned murder, intentionally killed below the age of 13, killed someone while serving term in prison, killed a law officer, and killed someone or illegally terminated a person’s pregnancy while in the process of committing, trying to commit or escaping after the act of rape, kidnapping, aggravated arson, arson, robbery, aggravated robbery, burglary, aggravated burglary, terrorism, or trespass. The death penalty is balanced between pros and cons, where it

The world is constantly evolving for the better and the worse, with this being said, not only will good come out of it but new evils will arise. We can’t stop the world from changing, but we can decide how we handle it. The death penalty should be legalized all around the world. The death penalty not only diminishes threats to society but it also brings closure to those who are grieving. In the United States 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.

Death penalty is when a government or state executes someone, usually but not always because they have committed a serious crime. Executions in most countries have become rarer than in recent centuries. The death penalty is a debatable and controversial topic. About one third of the countries in the world have laws that allow the death penalty. 75 countries have gotten rid of the capital punishment (death penalty) for all crimes. Most of the countries that have a death penalty law use it on murderers, and for other serious crimes such as rape or terrorism. Other countries especially ones with Authoritarian or Totalitarian governments, however, also use it for smaller crimes like theft, drugs, or for saying bad things about

To begin with, the death penalty is often administered using methods such as a lethal injection, gas chamber, or electrocution. Clearly, ethical issues regarding these methods are important and should be considered, but they do not impact the actual effectiveness of the punishment. However, even with ethical issues aside, the death penalty does not make economic sense: “putting an individual to death costs more than keeping that individual in prison at the highest level of security for forty years” (Gerber and Johnson 166). For example, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, who was governor from 2007-2015, said that the overall cost of all death penalty cases since 1978 is $22.4 million more than what it would have cost to imprison the criminals for life. O’Malley states, “…that $22.4 million could pay for 500 additional police officers or provide drug treatment for 10,000 of our addicted neighbors” (Jones). All those taxpayer dollars and all that time could be used towards police funding or other measures that would be truly effective in preventing crime, while the criminal still receives the punishment of imprisonment. Also, death penalty cases are thorough, as they should be, but as a result, they take the time of many judges, lawyers, courtrooms, etc. Some cases take over two decades to resolve (Jones). Plus, there are simply too many cases. According to Block, “there would have to be one execution every day for the next 26 years” to handle the volume.

The death penalty has always been an issue or debate in the United States, typically being asked if it should be illegal or not. As of right now there are thirty-one states, including Ohio in which I live, that still use the death penalty as it is illegal in the rest. There are many supporters of it, there is also a huge amount of opposition. There are things included in both sides that can make the argument harder to be one-sided but I believe that the death penalty should be legal throughout the entire nation. Not only does it create deterrence, it also creates morality and retribution.

The death penalty is both a relevant and interesting topic of discussion as it serves as both a moral and ethical question, yielding many different and opposing opinions. The topic of the death penalty is one that will produce a multitude of differing opinions, resulting in a lot of interesting debate and conversation at the discussion sections. The death penalty, specifically the use of the electric chair, has brought up a lot of debate in the US, as certain states have gone as far as to ban it altogether, whilst others practice it regularly. The death penalty can be beneficial by helping to handle the overcrowding at prison facilities, as well as providing justice to families of victims. With the continuous advancements in technology, DNA testing has become increasingly more accurate and can effectively decipher whether one is guilty or innocent to avoid executing the wrong person. However, there are many negative associations with the death penalty, many being on the issue of moral standards. Many argue that the use of the death penalty goes against the Bill of Rights violation of “Cruel and unusual punishments”, as the death penalty could be seen as both. Despite the strong moral standings against the death penalty, many are also against it because of its extremely expensive cost. Taxpayers are forced to pay several times more money to place an inmate on death row and execute them, than it would cost to keep the inmate in prison for life. Because of this, many are

One of the controversy's that have been around is about Death Penalty, what people ask is that if it keeps going people will think it is fair to fix every criminal case by death. they believe that they are giving what the people want but they are causing more deaths, and causing for people to believe that death is better than punishment of life in prison. what has been happening with the death penalty is that the government is wasting a lot of money in just one death penalty, lawyers are being called killers and the judges need to know that sentence to life in prison is far more better than death. America wants to save money for other real things, death penalty should stay out of that money in order for them to pay off many debts.

The death penalty has been a huge part of many political debates for decades. Most citizens of the Unite States believe there are two sides, those for and those against its continued use. Those for, tend to believe that it is necessary to keep these criminals out of society and that it deters crime, while those against tend to believe that the practice is medieval and unethical in society today. With a controversial topic like the death penalty, it is important to determine why this controversy exists and if there is a possible solution. The focus at hand is whether or not the United States Government should continue its use of the death penalty and how this answer could be implemented.

First off, some states just put people on death row and leave them there for a very, very long amount of time. Furthermore, only 1,110 people have been executed on death row since 1973 and 4.1% of those people were innocent (Ballaro & Cushman, 2016). In a state there was execution that looked like torture because they sat there and watched the man die for 40 minutes with the lethal injection that they had used to kill him (Newsweek Global, 2014). After another execution, they took 45 minutes to find a suitable vein on a man by just probing his arms and a leg because of his past drug abuse. The FBI’s evidence shows that the death penalty takes up large amounts of money but still does not deter criminals(Ballaro, Cushman, 2016). In the recent past, some people in the Supreme Court believed that the death penalty has been used in a racist manner, and could have resulted in innocent lives being taken for things they did not do.

Majority of Americans have a clear and very strong opinion when discussing the death penalty, regardless of their side of the argument they stand on. Those who support this penalty claim that it serves as a disincentive to crime and that rightful justice is being executed or that it is more cost effective to execute the death penalty rather than a criminal serve a “life without parole” sentence. Personally, I feel that the death penalty is an ineffective, morally wrong punishment that does more harm than good to society. The objective of the death penalty is supposedly supposed to serve as a deterrent to others wo are contemplating committing the same crime or similar crime. In countries other than the U.S., for example, disprove this. In the countries, where the death penalty doesn’t exist, murders and other violent crimes that “deserve” the death penalty are at a much lower rate than in the United States. True, it seems redundant nevertheless, the evidence is clear.

Envision a close family member or friend, they just died, you are grieving and feel like the world is going to collapse, then months pass so you find yourself becoming content with them being dead but you find out that they died for no reason. That emotion is what hundreds of family members or friends have to come into contact with when they are involved with a person who was accused of committing a crime, so they faced the death penalty. The death penalty also known as capital punishment is used as a punishment in the United Stated for crimes involving murder. If the defendant is found guilty then by law a judge can order for that person to be executed. While some argue that capital punishment sometimes makes mistakes, is morally wrong, and is expensive due to lengthy trials, others believe that by implying it will decrease crime rate.

The death penalty has been around for centuries. It dates back to when Hammurabi had his laws codified; it was “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth”. Capital punishment in America started when spies were caught, put on trial and hung. In the past and still today people argue that, the death penalty is cruel, unusual punishment and should be illegal. Yet many people argue that it is in fact justifiable and it is not cruel and unusual. Capital punishment is not cruel and unusual; the death penalty is fair and there is evidence that the death penalty deters crime. 
A big part of abolitionist’s argument is that the death penalty is not humane. They pull in Amendment 8, “…nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” What the victim went though was indeed “cruel and unusual punishments’.” The murderers’ death is not cruel. The people will demand justice for what he or she has done (Bidinotto 19). Hanging and the electric chair are topics more reasonable to argue, but now because of lethal injection capital punishment has become more humane. The death penalty is not barbaric, the pain and agony that the victim went through is barbaric. Abolitionists were very upset in 1996 when rapist and murderer John Albert Taylor was executed by firing squad; they said his death was barbaric (Feder 32). Charla King, the poor 11-year-old girl he raped and strangled with a telephone cord, her death was barbaric! It makes no sense to think that John Taylor’s’ death was barbaric or inhumane. He