...Pro-Death Penalty Thousands of people will attack the death penalty. They will give emotional speeches about the one innocent man or woman who might accidentally get an execution sentence. However, all of these people are forgetting one crucial element. They are forgetting the thousands of victims who die every year by the hands of heartless murderers. There are more murderers out there than people who are wrongly convicted, and that is what we must remember. I, as well as many others, have total confidence in the death penalty. It is a very beneficial component of our justice system. The death penalty saves lives. It saves live because it stops those who murder from ever murdering again. It also deters potential murderers from ever committing the crime. Unfortunately, the death penalty is currently used so rarely that it is not nearly as effective as it could be. In order for it to work, we must put it into practice more often. In recent years, crime in America has been on the rise, in particular, violent crime. This has led not only to an overcrowding of prisons in our country, but also to an increase in the number of death sentences handed down by the courts. Despite the fact that the number of inmates on death row is climbing, the number of death sentences actually carried out in any given year lags far behind. People simply aren’t fearful of the death penalty when it is not used the way it should be (Stewart 50). If the death penalty has been declared legal, then the...
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...In 2017, 23 people were executed in the United States. The Death Penalty has been a part of history since the eighteenth century B.C. Although the United States Supreme Court suspended the death penalty in 1972, it was reinstated in 1977. Since then, there has been over 1500 executions carried out. Capital punishment is just because it is reserved for the sinister criminals, provides justice for the family, and deters future criminals from committing felonies, and has a natural deterrent effect which pushes away future convicts from committing violent acts. however others fear innocent lives are being taken. One of the most popular counter arguments from the non-supporters of the death penalty is the notion that innocent lives through the use of capital punishment....
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...legalized the death penalty, it is still a highly controversial and debated topic throughout America. The death penalty is such an immensely arguable topic because the states have the control over the life and death of a human. Advocates of the death penalty believe that it is a deterrent, but evidence has proven otherwise; they also do not recognize the many faults tied up in the system. The death penalty should be abolished because the prisoners are treated inhumanely not only from living on death row, but from receiving a bad batch of lethal injection drugs. Many people do not realize the immense cost required for the execution of a single inmate and the discrimination {against African Americans} that lives in the courtroom. After being sentenced to execution, prisoners are sent to death row; a section located in in a prison that deprives them of their sanity. Death row is like solitary confinement; the inmates are isolated and confined to a cell the size of a bathroom for at least 22 hours a day. The prisoners are constantly subjected to atrocious conditions to the point that they are getting their human rights taken from them. The prisoners...
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...figure out the correct way to deal with law-opposing criminals. From crucifixion and slavery, to death by firing squad and life sentences, the world has utilized different forms of discipline. The death penalty has formed into the most questionable form of punishment, drawing the most attention from the public eye. The United States government uses this sanction to punish criminals for committing the most heinous crimes and offenses. The crimes that obtain the death penalty mostly consist of murder which include murder during a kidnapping, murder for hire, drug-related drive by shooting, and genocide. However, the crimes can also consist of other capital offenses, such as espionage, treason, and death resulting from aircraft hijacking. The United States of America...
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...Should the death penalty be used on violent criminals? Did you know that exactly 32 states use the death penalty? 18 states have death penalty bans. The Death Penalty should not be a punishment for justice because it violates the eighth amendment, innocent lives are at risks of death, and we also pay millions for the death penalty just as much as we pay for the criminals to live in the prison. One day there was a man named Nicholas Stokes, he got his car stolen by a woman named Lucy Mistress who murdered her abusive ex-boyfriend. Lucy drove the car to the crime scene and unfortunately for Nicholas he didn’t notice his car was stolen because he was off of work and just so happend to sleep all day. The police got to the crime scene and ran...
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...The word “murder” often makes people think of knives, criminals, and guns. However, a method of murder that no one talks about is the death penalty. The death penalty is an inhumane technique of serving punishment to criminals with major crimes and currently legal in thirty-one states (“Death Penalty”). It is “...the most extreme form of criminal sanction that the criminal justice system can implement” (Ross 183) and has been a controversial topic throughout the United States. Those for the death penalty often say, “a life for a life” or that it is “costly to keep them in prison” (Ziesel 289). Those against it say it is “wrong to take a life” or “punishment should be left to God” (Ziesel 289). This tactic has a discriminatory nature, violates...
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...sentence and executed 38 people by the means of the death penalty (mic.com/articles). That statistic shows that the United States death penalty is not a punishment that is tossed around lightly. However, it is a punishment that the United States needs to keep. The writers of the Constitution wrote that there should and will be a death penalty (Is the death penalty unconstitutional?). Many people who oppose the death penalty say that it has racial bias, well according to Roger C, race is not a factor in the sentencing of the death penalty. Many people also try to say that it is far too expensive, this is false because sentencing criminals to life without parole adds to the expenses that prisons and taxpayers already have to pay ( does the death penalty cost less than life without parole?). The death penalty is fair, and effective and needs to be kept at all costs....
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...speaker once said, “Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all”. Capital punishment is one of the most controversial topics in the world. Punishment is only effective if it is constantly enforced, and capital punishment can't be enforced all the time. People who commit crimes of personal violence may or may not premeditate the crime. Death is irreversible and there is nothing that will make the victim come back to life. Since 1990, in the United States, there has been an average of more than four cases each year in which an entirely innocent person was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Notwithstanding, it can help control crime and in some cases, it can be just. It also gives closure to the families...
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...use it. As of July 1, 2015 there are thirty-one states with the death penalty and nineteen have abolished it. The death penalty should be abolished because there is a better alternative in life without parole, innocent lives are put at risk, and we pay millions each year to fund this process. First off, we have a much better way to punish people for the even most inhumane of crimes and we can find that in using life without parole. With death as a option after they commit such a crime, it is an easy way out of having to truly pay for their crimes. Life without parole is easily a better alternative because no one would want to spend the rest of their life in a prison cell until they died. There is also the option of life with the possibility of parole for an option, even then there is no guarantee for parole. The wait would be...
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...I feel that the death penalty should not be abolished, at least not here in the United States. I feel that the death penalty should be administered because: • There’s an overflow of the human populace and the death penalty can (at least somewhat) keep the populace in check. However, if we were to abolish the death penalty, there might be an even greater inflation of the human populace. • There’s an overflow of criminals in the court systems and not many efficient ways of handling these prisoners; however, with the death penalty set in place, there’s at least one guaranteed method of dealing with inmates if they step too far out of line. • The death penalty is a significantly cheaper and more efficient way of handling prisoners; especially those with a life sentence on their heads. The cost of keeping a...
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...PiG Task 1- Death Penalty James Chen The American Justice System was meant to build for keeping the society structured. Anyone who committed a crime would face corresponding punishments. And the death penalty is one of them. This kind of penalty has been around for decades. But there are still a lot of controversies around it. Many people are against the death penalty because of many reasons. For example, everyone should have the right to live, sometimes juries are racially biased and wrongful executions could happen. And some people want the death penalty. They say some felony criminals need retribution and the court needs to show deterrence. This conversation has been brought up again recently because of the case Foster V. Chatman. ABA (American...
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...diabetic, and used a wheelchair. He was the last person the state has executed. A decade later, California's death row population has increased by 100 to 746, making it the largest in the nation. The state has executed 13 prisoners in 40 years at an estimated cost of $4 billion, while more than 100 other prisoners have died on death row. Prisoners wait 11-15 years to be appointed counsel, and the entire appeal process routinely takes...
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...1,446 executions (Death Penalty Information Center). 1,446 people have been put to death for committing crimes such as murder and treason. The death penalty is definitely not a new prospect; far from it, first known to be practiced in the 14th century B.C.E. (Death Penalty Information Center). In fact, some describe capital punishment as a barbaric, outdated, or unsophisticated form of justice. America is, after all, one of the only developed countries that still enforces the death penalty. Others argue that it is necessary in keeping law and order and helps to deter crime. The death penalty has an interesting history, and still today there is an argument about whether or not it should continue to be enforced, possibly because of the historically discriminatory nature of the death penalty. In early colonial America, the death penalty was fairly strictly enforced....
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...The first death penalty laws were established in the eighteenth century making it so you could only be hanged for murder. The first recorded death penalty that took place was in 1608, it was Captain George Kendall. This execution took place in the new colonies, he was put to death because he was suspected of spying for Spain he was executed by a firing squad. Capital Punishment has not been proven to deter crime and opens the possibility of executing innocent people; finally, the Death Penalty/Capital Punishment can cause 2nd hand trauma to the victim and their family. Capital Punishment violates the 8th amendment, it is labeled as cruel and unusual punishment. Capital punishment also violates the constitutional guarantee of equal protection,...
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...The death penalty should be used in this country. Some of my reasons are closure for the victims’ families. The long appeals process and the suffering of the victims. From the article it gives this example Nearly 18 years ago, David Brewer called up Sherry Byrne and lured her to a motel. He raped her, then stuffed her in the trunk of his car where she was trapped for 10 hours, bound and gagged with wire and duct tape. She made a "Help Me" sign with lipstick, and several motorists saw it sticking out of the trunk and reported it to police. But Brewer drove her to a secluded farm lane. He strangled her with a necktie, broke her neck, stabbed her 14 times and slit her throat, then stuffed the body back in his trunk and drove home to his wife. Now he sits on death row, where he belongs. After 18 years of appeals, the Supreme Court has rejected his case. Some law students want the case looked at again even after the Supreme Court rejected his appeal. Here are the facts that convicted him Mr. Byrne, now a New Jersey accounting executive, grew up in southwest Ohio and worked at the Chiquita Center on the day his wife of seven months was murdered. "Sherry called me at 10:15 a.m. at my office in downtown Cincinnati to excitedly relay that a friend of ours, and my college fraternity `Big Brother,' David Brewer, had just called her and invited her to come and see him and his wife, Cathy, at a motel near our home in Springdale," he recalled. Sherry took along her puppy, "Bo." Brewer...
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