Why Do Criminals Deserve The Death Penalty?

The United States is supposed to represent freedom, liberty, and peace. However, the death penalty contradicts everything the founding fathers built America on. Everyone is entailed to life even though they commit terrible crimes. Technology advancements are rapidly growing which is supposed to allow less pain in time of execution. So far in 2011 there have been eight executions and three more executions are going to be taken place on March 10, 29 and 31. Many people are killed by lethal injections, electrocutions, gas chamber, hanging, or a firing squad. These killing methods are both immoral and unconstitutional because they are killing the people like animals. This is an endless vicious cycle of murder and revenge that continues because the people have a desire to get revenge on the people who killed their loved one. Even thought that loved one will never return and enjoy life before it was quickly taken away.

States are getting out of hand. The state of Oklahoma will start using nitrogen gas to execute death row, officials said, an unprecedented response to the inability of states nation wide to obtain lethal injection drugs. Oklahoma’s move is the latest in a series of dramatic efforts. Some officials have made to carrying out death sentences. Oklahoma isn't the only state who has decided to practice death penalty. Electrocution is in Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Utah does firing squad. In 2009, New Mexico voted to abolish the death penalty. Colorado abolished the death penalty in 1897 but reinstated it in 1901. In 2009, the Colorado House of Representatives passed the death penalty abolished bill. A pro of having the power to use the death penalty is that it kills people for there bad crimes. A con of having the power to apply the death penalty is the person who made the crime just dies and doesn't have to think about what they did and how the families of the victims feel. States are losing the lethal injection drug because there's little supply of it. Personally I think individual states should not have the power because the criminal should think about what they have done. Also, states have too much power in the first place either all states should have them or don't have them at

“And despite scientific efforts to implement capital punishment in a "humane" fashion, time and again executions have resulted in degrading spectacles, including the botched lethal injection in April 2014 that took more than 40 minutes to kill Oklahoma inmate Clayton Derrell Lockett and prompted Glossip v. Gross” (Heyns and Mendez). Capital punishment is an inhumane and outdated way for punishing criminals. The use of capital punishment is hundreds of years old in America. It is used as a punishment for criminals who have committed a violent crime in which they physically harm others. The point of the death penalty is to show that these kinds of crimes are not tolerated, and to deter criminals from committing these kinds of crimes. Unfortunately

Eighteen states have already ended capital punishment and the governors of three other states have halted executions.New Hampshire and Delaware may soon be added to the list of abolition states. Also, the use of the death penalty in states that keep it is decreasing.When the bad people seek the appropriate punishment for the worst of the worst, it makes some people happy. Like a man who rapes and tortures a child, a serial killer, a depraved mass murderer such as Timothy McVeigh. No human being has the right to take the life of another. We call that murder. Taking the life of somebody that you believe to have murdered somebody else does not bring the murdered person back. It just

Historically, executions have been around for a long time. The first established death penalty laws date as far back as the Eighteenth Century B.C. but didn’t make an appearance in the United States until 1608 (Part 1, n.d.). Death penalty is seen as a form of accountability for someone’s action. Most easily understood when you take a life, you lose your life--an eye for an eye. Nonetheless, over time people have started humanizing the situation and creating controversy. The Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments were interpreted as permitting the death penalty, until the early 1960s, when it was suggested that the death penalty was a "cruel and unusual" punishment, and therefore arguing it as unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment (Part

Is capital punishment justice? Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, remains to be one of the most hotly debated issues in the justice system. This subject contains large gray areas concerning many aspects of what is we consider modern justice. Many wonder if such a punishment should be allowed in our modern society. The argument of this paper is to convince others that capital punishment and all that it entails is a practical and just form of delivering justice, providing both secular and religious explanations as to why the death penalty is just.

Out of the 50 states, 26 of them have had at least one death row execution. American people (approximately 65%) say that they are still strong supporters in the Death Penalty. That is over half of the American population, for the Death Penalty. One may argue that it is a horrible way of giving people what they deserve; however, those people may not see the mistakes these people have made, making them not agree with this act. As this may be a contradiction, capital punishments is one of the life learning punishments known. It is legal in many states, but that doesn’t make it fair to all because its blameful, the cost is outrageous, and it’s time that needs to be spent helping, instead of killing.

Now there is a question to if they should stop and go back to old school ways, using the electric chair. This is because the lethal injections are easier, but they cost much more money. In Flordia of 1976-2000 each execution has costed up to 24million dollars (Dieter, Richard C.). The economy has collapsed and the US cannot afford the outrageous prices. The people who were making the poison for the injections were not from the US, they also did not realize what we were using it for. The intended purpose for the poison was not to kill people intentionally, but to have a easier way to die. The US are not the only people having trouble with way to kill people on death row. In 1789 the French were having a Revolution of their own people, this lead to many deaths. What famous killing machine that came out of the revolution was the guillotine, this was a wooden frame holding a large blade in the air. People would place their heads at the bottom of the contraption and the blade would drop, cutting off their head. This lead to the French people going mad, they were killing peasant people one after another and soon their own king and queen would get beheaded. The US never adopted this form of killing due to the history of its use and the mess it makes to kill people that way. When Hitler took over and started killing Jews with the gas chambers he killed many people at once. With all this history of killing people it tends to make other countries go crazy with power. The death penalty supports the want to kill other as revenge for the crimes they’ve committed. This was why Christians had the “Thou Shall Not Kill” rule showing people forgiveness as the Christian way and saving people's lives so they can

Did you know that since 1976, there have been a total of 518 executions in Texas alone? However in 2014 Texas only executed ten people. This is because they are seeing how much of a mistake the death penalty is. The death penalty is a useless form of punishment. The cost of it vastly overshadows that of the costs for life without parole, also yearly more and more death row inmates are being exonerated (released), and lastly it fails to deter criminals from committing crimes.

The state murdering people because of their crimes simply does not equate to justice. It is real easy to hear about how the government is doing this wrong or that,but the death penalty is abounded with so many injustices and faults that it's an embarrassment to our entire due process of law. Supporters of capital punishment subscribe to religious and ethical points of view rather than facts, and when they do offer facts it's always the same argument: "It's a deterrent." The death penalty is extremely flawed, most notably it comes with a very high price tag to an already under-funded correctional institution in America; no stable argument has been installed to warrant it as a deterrent; and the moral decay it establishes creates among other things a feeling of revenge and spite within society. The flaws of capital punishment become too many shortly after they total one. This is because of the focus of the death penalty that being human life. Innocent people being sent to death or being released within weeks of execution are becoming frequent stories on the nightly news. The legal system is disturbingly unable to correctly administer the death penalty. Every day individuals who can't afford a lawyer have to have one appointed to them under the constitution. These

The death penalty to many people could be considered unconstitutional under the eighth and the fourteenth amendment 's. People fear nothing more than death itself because death is final. Execution dates being carried out promptly with assigned dates after a fair trial would discourage almost anyone from committing future crimes that are worthy of execution. We as a society are based on the need for retribution and vengance. Making a wrongdoer pay the price equivalent to the price the wrongdoer did. Sparsely carrying out executions prolongs the mental and emotional suffering of the victim 's family and friends. It cost taxpayers millions of dollars per year, more than general population to house a death row inmates. Allowing death row inmates to sit on death row for 25 plus years is a lugsury most dont deserve. With less than 10% of all inmates being exonorated in the past 200 years of death penalties it is unclear why executions are not more readily carried out.

For instance, the cost to execute someone is 5x times more than keeping them in jail. Cases without the death penalty cost roughly about $740,000 depending on the situation, while cases with the death penalty cost roughly $1.26 million, and maintaining each death row prisoners cost taxpayers $90,000 more per year than a prisoner in general population. Additionally, Texas has made 474 executions since 1976, and the next closest state to that number is Virginia with 109 executions. There are still several states that have made 0 executions or very little compared to Texas. Moreover, some argue against the death penalty because of wrongful convictions and innocent killings. In the Larry Griffin case, an investigation by the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund has uncovered evidence that Griffin may have been innocent of his crime. Investigators say his case is the strongest demonstration yet on executing an innocent man, due to the fact it violates the Eighth Amendment. There’s also principles at conflict, like popular sovereignty and federalism because opposition to the death penalty has increased dramatically since the 1900s. There are 31 states with the death penalty legalized and 19 that have abolished it; however, there’s 5 states that have a moratorium on executions. To conclude, the states depict if the death penalty is legal or not based on the people’s votes, and the states having the power to vote represents

From 1976 to present day, there has been a total of 1379 executions due to capital punishment in the United States (Death Penalty Info Center). Founded in 1990 The Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) is a non-profit organization focused on providing the media and the public with analysis and issues concerning capital punishment in the United States. After extensive research, I was not at all surprised to find that most of capital punishment carried out throughout the Unites States since 1976 mostly took place in the southern states. “Formed in February 1861, the Confederate States of America was a republic composed of eleven Southern states that seceded from the Union in order to preserve slavery, states’ rights, and political liberty for whites” (History.com). The states seem to have kept their ancient beliefs as society modernized and attempting to

The death penalty is faulty in its age and obsolete in its usage, and frankly should be put out of its misery. Capital punishment began its time in the Middle Ages, as people were executed for simply thinking differently from the rest of society. Even now, as we look back on history we find their ways of execution purely barbaric and malicious in all its forms. However, we continue to practice these forms of butchery; the traditional method of execution, hanging, is still an option available in certain states. In addition, couple of states also still allow firing squads, and the electrocution chairs has been readily used throughout the last century. The United States stands as one of the few developed nations with a death penalty still in place. There’s a reason most of the European countries have banned the usage of death as punishment, it’s cruel, unusual and barbaric! Is that the image the U.S. wants to portray the alling regions, one of intolerance and unforgiveness? The United States surpasses those barbaric ways, with its exceedingly advanced ways and state-of-the-art technology, yet it’s one of the only countries left of the Western world that still has

How does government punish criminals who kill people? That question is being asked a lot, and here is the answer. Governments have the death penalty which is the capital punishment that the government does to criminals for some reasons. For instance, when a criminal kills a person or rape someone, usually they get the capital punishment. Why would the government kill someone as a punishment, even though there are more ways to punish the criminals? Usually the capital punishment is being done to teach people not to kill and not to rape; because when they know that killing and raping will get them to death they won 't do it. However, death penalty is not the perfect punishment to punish criminals who admit a crime because GOD told us to forgive other people, but in this case, we must make sure that the person is guilty. If so, there are a lot of options such as rehabilitation and reform the person who killed someone else. Therefore, we can give the hard work in our lives for those who admitted a crime as their punishment because when we use death penalty on them as it is their punish, it means we are a 100% sure that the person did the crime. What I meant to say is sometimes we make mistakes, and we cannot take a chance of sending people to death so easily because when we find out that those people are not guilty, we will feel very ashamed of ourselves and at that time we cannot do anything about it. And that is why we must make death penalty banned in all countries.