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The new murder law overrules the changes that were incorporated to the murder code at a time when the crime rate was high, based on arguments filed in court against Wilson’s case and other similar cases. In 1978, voters passed a law that increased penalties for murder and in 1990 they approved another law that expanded the number of crimes that can be considered first-degree murder. Although the felony murder rule was not touched upon by the two referendums, prosecutors claim that it will take a new referendum or two-thirds of the California Legislature to revise the murder code.
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“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring. Capital punishment also named the death penalty has had a long-standing history among the world’s punishments. It’s one of the oldest, and most frequent changing types because of the implementation of new ways to execute life.
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To make that happen, the strongest deterrent is required. That is why capital punishment often applies to cases of first-degree murder or issues where the safety of an entire country was jeopardized. By telling people they’ll die, if convicted, for these serious crimes, the goal is to prevent the crime from happening in the first place. It still provides a respectful outcome to a convicted individual. The modern death penalty in the United States as evolved into a process that is intended to be painless and effective.
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Lethal injections of medication cause a person to stop breathing and their heart to stop beating. Although shortages of drugs from manufacturers have created issues with executions in recent years, including people surviving the execution attempt, the process is much more compassionate than electrocution, firing squads, or hanging, which were common execution methods in the past. It allows for a deserved punishment for horrific crimes. There is a point in time when someone who commits a horrific crime is beyond the point where rehabilitation is possible. Not only does capital punishment create a deserved punishment that I equal to the crime committed, it provides a safety net for the rest of the society. A sentence of death prevents that person from committing another horrific crime. It also reduces the influence that person would have on prison populations, which may influence behaviors and choices of non-violent offenders upon their release. It prevents prisons from becoming over-populated. In the United States, there are more than 2.3 million people being held in state and federal prisons, local jails, Indian Country jails, juvenile correctional facilities, immigration detention centers, military prisons, and civil commitment centers. About 443,000 people have not been convicted of anything and are awaiting trial. Another 41,000 are in detention in immigration centers without conviction. On the other hand, 704,000 prisoners are labeled as violent offenders in state prisons. Capital punishment laws create space for potential rehabilitation without dealing with issues of prison over-population. It eliminates sympathy for the criminal. Criminal justice should involve addressing the facts of the situation. Far too often, there is an emotional response to people charged with a capital crime, with sympathy being directed toward the individual or the family of the accused person. When someone is facing a trial, or the consequences of their actions, then the law should be able to address the actions in a way that discourages others from doing the same thing. It offers zero chance of escape. When the death penalty is being implemented, there is no chance for the individual to escape the consequences of their actions. It eliminates the possibility of an illegal escape. Even if an individual manages to survive their execution attempt, the law allows for another attempt to be made. As John McAdams, a suspended associate professor of political science at Marquette University at the time of writing, describes the situation, “If we execute murders and there is no deterrent effect, then we have killed murders. If we fail to execute murderers, which would have deterred others from committing such a crime, then we would have allowed the killing of innocent victims.”
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According to the Death Penalty Information Center, the average cost of a case without capital punishment involved is $740,000. For cases where the death penalty is sought be prosecutors, the average cost off the case is $1.26 million. In addition to the prosecution expenses, the cost of housing a prisoner on death row is $90,000 more per year, on average, then a prisoner in the general population. With the average length of time on death row at 15 years in the United States, housing a prisoner for execution may cost more than $1 million more than housing a prisoner for a life sentence. It does not deter crime like it should. Data collected in the United States, as some states have capital punishment and others do not, shows that there is a clear discrepancy in the rates of violent crime. It should be in the states with the death penalty, but the opposite is the case. The states which have the most executions also have the highest murder rates. In recent years, Illinois, Connecticut, New Mexico, and New York all abolished the death penalty and experienced a decrease in their murder rate in the following years. It does not provide a sense of justice for the families of a victim. Although capital punishment may be the “ultimate” form of justice, it does not provide the sense of satisfaction for the families of a victim that many people think it does. Research by Marilyn P. Armour and Mark S. Umbreit, published in 2012 by the Marquette Law Review, found that family members of a victim experience higher levels of behavioral, physical, and psychological health when a perpetrator is given a life sentence that is enforced instead of the death penalty.
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It is not the only way to ensure someone is never released from prison. The number of people serving life sentences in the United States is surging. About 162,000 people are currently serving a life sentence, which is 1 out of every 9 people. Another 45,000 people in the U.S. are serving an effective life sentence of 50 years or more before being eligible for parole. Incarceration rates for life sentences in the U.S. have risen by nearly 5 times the levels they were in 1984, even though crime is at historic lows. There are options other than the death penalty to keep people in prison.5. It puts the lives of innocent people at-risk within the criminal justice system. Since the 1970s, over 160 people have been exonerated after being initially convicted of a capital crime. Although we may never know how many people have been wrongly executed, there are recent examples of potential innocence. Cameron Willingham was executed for killing his three children in a fire at his home, even though 8 different experts say the conviction was based on faulty science. The case of Carlos DeLuna even brought a rebuke by Justice John Paul Stevens against the use of the death penalty because of the risks involved of killing an innocent person. It does not provide a deterrent against non-violent crime either. In 2008, Indonesia executed two convicted Nigerians of drug-related offenses. The goal of the “emergency executions” was to deter drug use within the country, along with drug-related crime. The actual outcome, however, was much different than anticipated. In 2007, Indonesia experienced 22,630 drug-related arrests. In the year of the executions, there were 29,364 drug-related arrests. In 2009, there were 30,878 drug-related arrests. The number of prisoners incarcerated for drug-related crimes increased after each execution series for offenses as well. There are even 1.7 million more people using drugs in Indonesia after the executions.
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It does not address the issue of crime in society. There will always be criminals who commit heinous crimes for personal pleasure. Yet 20% of the U.S. prison population involves people who have been locked up because of a drug offense. People who are in prison are reported statistically under the most violent offense from their conviction. Its groups people with felony murder convictions with those who do not even commit the crime, like participating in a robbery where someone dies, but they did not pull the trigger.8. It creates the possibility of sentencing children to death row. George Stinney was wrongly convicted of murder in 1944 in his hometown of Alcolu. At the time of his execution, he was only 14 years old. He was convicted in less than 10 minutes, in a 1-day trial, by a jury that was all-white. Stinney had been accused of killing two white girls, ages 11 and 7, and supposedly confessed to the crime, though no record of the confession was every found. Stinney was denied appeal and electrocuted. Although the Supreme Court ruled in March 2005 that the death penalty for anyone under the age of 18 is cruel and unusual punishment, other countries are not bound by such a ruling. It eliminates the possibility of rehabilitation. There are criminals who prefer to live outside of the rules that society sets. These individuals may never be rehabilitated. The death penalty eliminates that possibility from the equation. Instead of allowing individuals an opportunity to make amends in some way, it automatically assumes that nothing can be done about that person. It suggests that society discards people based on their willingness to follow the rules, especially in nations where non-violent offenses qualify for capital punishment.
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In conclusion, the risk of capital punishment is often based on information that is faulty, misleading, or an outright lie. Although some societies may see temporary benefits from its implementation, the use of death as a deterrent against crime says more about the people who want it than the people who commit crime in the first place. At the very least, its presence risks the execution of an innocent person. At worst, it may encourage more violent crime in a society because the government sanctions violence as part of its systemic structures.
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In the Jamestown colony of Virginia in 1608, Captain George Kendall was sentenced to be hanged for the capital offense of treason. Among other serious capital crimes in colonial times were murder, rape – and witchcraft. Then later the first state to limit crimes punishable with the death penalty was Pennsylvania. In 1682 the conference of Pennsylvania produced the Great Law or Body of Laws, which consisted of 61 chapters dictating the governance of Pennsylvania. It included the original Quaker criminal code which limited crimes punishable by death to premeditated murder and treason.
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Many states enacted laws providing private hangings, where the public was not allowed. Rhode Island (1833), Pennsylvania (1834), New York (1835), Massachusetts (1835), and New Jersey (1835) all abolished public hangings. By 1849, fifteen states were holding private hangings. This move was opposed by many death penalty abolitionists who thought public executions would eventually cause people to cry out against execution itself. For example, in 1835, Maine enacted what was in effect a moratorium on capital punishment after over ten thousand people who watched a hanging had to be restrained by police after they became unruly and began fighting.
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In 1846, the state of Michigan abolished the death penalty for all crimes, except treason, and replaced the death penalty for all other serious crimes with life imprisonment. The law took effect the next year, making Michigan, for all intents and purposes, the first English-speaking jurisdiction in the world to abolish capital punishment and the first state to outlaw the death penalty for all crimes, including treason, was Rhode Island, in 1852; Wisconsin was the second state to do so a year later.
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The movement against capital punishment revived again between 1955 and 1972, after teh II World War and the publication of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the newly created United Nations. England and Canada completed exhaustive studies that were largely critical of the death penalty and these were widely circulated in the U.S. Death row criminals gave their own moving accounts of capital punishment in books and film. Convicted kidnapper Caryl Chessman published Cell 2455 Death Row and Trial by Ordeal. Barbara Graham’s story was utilized in book and film with I Want to Live! after her execution. Television shows were broadcast on the death penalty. Hawaii and Alaska ended capital punishment in 1957, and Delaware did so the next year. Controversy over the death penalty gripped the nation forcing politicians to take sides. Delaware restored the death penalty in 1961. Michigan abolished capital punishment for treason in 1963. Voters in 1964 abolished the death penalty in Oregon. In 1965 Iowa, New York, West Virginia, and Vermont ended the death penalty. New Mexico abolished the death penalty in 1969. Trying to end capital punishment state-by-state was difficult at best, so people who wanted to get rid of the death penalty turned much of their efforts to the state courts.
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As a turning point, in 1982, The United States Supreme Court overturns the death sentence of a man who was convicted of the robbery and murder of an elderly couple in Florida. Edmund had not directly participated in the murders himself but had only driven the getaway car. This was enough, under Florida law, to make him a ‘constructive aider and abettor’ in the killings, and so liable to the death penalty. However, a majority of five of the Supreme Court justices rules that this is not enough to subject him to the death penalty since they find Edmund had no intent to kill.
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Teresa Lewis was put to death in Virginia on Thursday for arranging the killings of her husband and a stepson over a $250,000 insurance payment. The 41-year-old was the first woman to be executed in the United States in five years. Texas held the most recent U.S. execution of a woman in 2005. Out of more than 1,200 people put to death since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976, only 11 have been women.
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In conclusion, the death penalty was not considered a very serious punishment centuries ago, although now people have actually started to realize the severity of its implications. The death penalty is illegal/ prohibited in many countries and states, including in all of the European Union and most of Europe. These methods of punishment are very extreme and excessive. I chose this topic because I found it fascinating that a country that is considered very developed (USA) still uses methods considered to be very old fashioned and cruel, and that a continent such as Europe has already for several decades abolished capital punishment methods… all except for Belarus.
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What exactly is the death penalty? In simple words, it is a punishment given by the State to an individual for committing one of these crimes murder, rape, kidnapping or distribution of drugs, etc. The death penalty should be legal in the United States of America because criminals should face the consequences of their actions secondly the death penalty is less expensive than life imprisonment thirdly evil should be removed from society to bring peace and comfort to the families of the victims.
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The first reason that criminals deserve the death penalty instead of life imprisonment must be, that criminals must face the consequence of their actions. Organizations that are against the death penalty usually mention that even though the criminal did wrong, he/she deserved a second chance in life. But these organizations only think of the welfare of criminals. However, they do not care about the pain that the families of the victims are experiencing. Usually, when a criminal commits a crime heshe doesn’t think about the consequences of their actions, nor do they care about their actions.
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Imagine a world were no norms existed the world be in chaos. This why rules were created in the first place. Going back to the topic of the death penalty for a lot of people this topic can be a sensitive and difficult topic to bring up.Because people think that is cruel to punish a human being using the electric chair, and lethal injection or hanging them.Because they believe that the prisoner will be in pain during the time of their death. But this not an issue anymore because knowing day technology has grown so much that makes the time of death painless. in the article Drugs used in the death penalty mentions the protocol that is used during the death penalty to make sure the process is been done correctly. “…drug regulation and correct drug use in lethal injection….”(Howard 18). The second point people bring up is that the death penalty goes against what the church say they believe that the only person who can judge their actions is a god because no one in this world is perfect. In the article Why countries choose the death penalty professor Carsten Anckar talks about “… the decision by the Philippines to abolish the death penalty in 2006 was strongly influenced by the Catholic church….”(Anckar 7).
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Lastly, the groups that are against the death penalty often mention what about men/women who were wrongly convicted of the death sentence, and later on, were found innocent. Many years ago this might have been the case, however, technology has improved a lot recently since the past years it almost makes it impossible to make a mistake and condemn an innocent man to die if this actually happens it as to be because there was enough evidence that proves he did it. In most criminal cases a private investigator makes sure they have the correct information. By doing the DNA test, and recreating the scenario to make sure the story they are telling makes sense they also gather information from the witnesses. In the united states every single person as equal right no one can be condemned just because some else feels like it doesn’t matter if that person is poor or rich. The article restates the civil rights of every human being as a citizen of the united states “…no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law….”(Rizer 47). A Lot of people want the united states government to abolish the death penalty and replaced it with the death sentence instead because their no blood involved. Because they believe the death penalty does not follow the human rights protocol however that’s not always the case “…many, industries, can help prevent human rights violations from occurring….”(Howard 3).In conclusion, the death penalty can be a really controversial topic to bring up because it involves the suffering and death of a human being however criminals must face the consequences of their actions.
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The second reason why the death penalty should be legal it’s because the life sentences are more expensive compared to the death penalty. Money is a very important factor when it comes to deciding whether a criminal should be sentenced to life in prison or convicted of the death penalty. In the first place, the government shouldn’t be expected to pay for criminals who are in a death sentence and that they deserve the death penalty. For example, every year the government collects taxes a big majority of the people taxes go to the prisoners this taxes should be going to the educational system instead to help students with their studies. Secondly, criminals can ask for as many appeals as he/she wants there no endless appeals, special treatment, DNA testing and they have equal right to ask for one of the best attorneys of the state. “…first, our system is required attorneys to provide the best representation possible for their clients….”(Rizer 50)This may not sound how much but there no limit of how many appeals criminals can get. This may sound cruel and not human, however, why should society have to spend their money paying for this criminals representative. Thirdly society had to pay for this criminal’s food, clothing, and many other necessary utilities for them to live a peaceful life in prison without having to work and earn their money like the rest of the citizens.
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Yes the death penalty is also expensive however it’s only done once with each prisoner however the life in prison may take years or decades for a prisoner to die in the long run the money spends on the death penalty is nothing compared to the life sentence. “…California had shockingly spent at least $4 billion dollars maintain them and pursuing the capital cases…”(Rizer 49).life in prison may be less cruel for the prisoner and good news for groups that want to abolish the death penalty but what about if the criminal commits this crimes ones again .what if she/he kills someone in prison or worst he escapes and kills another innocent victim, yes this may sound ridiculous but these scenarios have happened before its possible it can happen again. This why a lot of countries have chosen to keep the death penalty. In conclusion, the life sentence is costing the united states a lot of money.
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The third reason why the death penalty should be legal is to remove evil from society and bring closure to the victims’ families. In the first place, if criminals are not removed from society future generations that are growing up in this kind of world will see its okay to commit this kind of crime because they are not going to get punished for it. For example, when a kid starts to curse it’s because he as heard some else use this kind of language near him/her so, therefore, he thinks it is okay for him to say too. Secondly, if the criminal is only sentenced to life in imprisonment the victim’s families are going to feel pain, anger, and resentment towards them. On the other hand, revenge is not going to bring the victim family members back to life or stop crime from happening again, but it will bring peace to their soul. And lastly yes there are people who deserved a second chance to make up for their mistakes however the percentages of a criminal to change are low and the government cannot take this kind of risk of letting out a criminal and later regretting it.
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In conclusion, is the death penalty is it good or bad? the death penalty is an extremely sensitive topic for a lot of people to talk about it, however, it should be discussed so the government can come up with a solution to the problem. Why the death penalty should be legal in the united states of America. Yes there will always be a crime in this world and there will always be people who want to abolish the death penalty, but there will also be people who support the death penalty because they believe that the main goal of the death penalty is to remove evil from society and also bring closure to the victim’s families secondly minimize the money been used by criminals and lastly make criminals pay the consequences of their actions. Should the death penalty be legal or not?
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The death penalty is one of the most severe forms of punishment that could possibly be given to a criminal for committing extremely serious crimes (Bohm, 2017). Varying levels of punishments are present for individuals according to the level of their criminal activities but the death penalty is used as a last resort response. It’s believed that one of the main sources of the death penalty is to ensure that it acts as a deterrent for the heinous crimes that might prevail in a particular area.
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Heads were chopped off, electric shock chairs were used and other such violent means were employed may have been too inhumane. However, as time went on the severity of the actual way punishment was inflicted was drastically reduced but still, the end result is the same; the loss of life. The death penalty adversely affects both families of murder victims and families of the accused (Muller, 2016). According to many supporters of the death penalty, they argue that it in fact does serve as a deterrent to crime, and assumes that justice has been served.
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Many people are still committing horrifying crimes and they still seem to increase even though capital punishment does exist. It’s believed that capital punishment should be noted because it provides a transparent justice system and major crimes are inexcusable and should be met with some extreme measures. In human behavior people are bound to commit crimes due to passion and the deterrence will never be ethical in society. With or without the death penalty people will continue to commit crimes because of the justice system. False confessions, eyewitness misidentification, and bad lawyering have all been reasons why innocent men and women have been wrongfully convicted and put to death while the real perpetrator is still on the loose committing the same crimes. Since 1973, 167 former death row prisoners have been exonerated of all charges. It is now clear that innocent defendants will be convicted and sentenced to death with some regularity as long as the death penalty still exists (DPIC,2020).
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In 1999, 5.7 million homicides in every 10,000 people were recorded, while the rate of homicide in the U.S was almost three times lower with figures standing at 1.8 million in the same population sample (Banner & Banner, 2009). Capital punishment and life imprisonment have the same deterrence. Capital punishment constitutes cruel and unusual punishment, it is arbitrary to due process, and it is not direct control of crime. Racial bias is also a reason why the death penalty is unfair. Between 1930 and 1996 4,220 prisoners were executed and 53% of them were black. Given that it is argued that the death penalty is deserved certain punishments should have limits because murder and rape fall along the same lines. Capital punishment is irreversible and according to the old saying ” An eye for an eye turns the world blind.”
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Capital punishment can and will never be an appropriate form of punishment for anyone, not even the person who committed the crime because retribution is seized, and there may be many who disagree with the notion. It causes an emotional response for all families seeking revenge fearing that they will never get closure because after all, they will never get that person back. Many sentences other than the death penalty may be more effective. Today, about 3,350 people are on “death row.” Virtually all are poor, a significant number are mentally disabled, more than 40 percent are African American, and a disproportionate number are Native American, Latino, and Asian. The death penalty is a lethal lottery. The first argument is that now people sit on the death row for decades waiting for their punishment after suffering from mental illness, old age, many have even suffered strokes and heart attacks causing them to forget the nature of the crime that was committed. If there is no effect on the overall crime rate then the best option would be to remove the death sentence completely.
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On the flip side, the removal of the death penalty will save costs that are utilized to carry out trials. Potentially save money for tax-payers. On average $1.1 million dollars was quoted for death punishment, while the average yearly life term sentence would cost roughly $315,156 making it the most expensive in the United States. The cost may vary by the number of lawyers the defendant is considering, the amount of time it takes for the prosecutor to prepare for the trial, and even appeals are common when their life is at stake. Currently, 15 states has abolished the death penalty in the United States because it has disproportionately punished the poor.
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While the loss of life is no small matter and it’s argued that it should be repaid equally the deterrence effect is just one reason to inflict the death penalty. An unfair justice system is another reason because the underlying statues are sometimes considered unconstitutional. We find that the death penalty is pointless, as it does not work to deter crime. Therefore the death penalty should be abolished because it proved to be inhumane and it doesn’t minimize the effects of the murderous activity.
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Racial minorities are most likely to take a big part in this issue. There have been several studies that have shown the death penalty is most likely to be recommended by the juror if the victim is white rather than black, Hispanic, or any other race. The race of the victim discrimination was singled by the U.S. General Accounting Office: “Death Penalty Sentencing.” The conclusion of the studies havens shown that the race of the victim who found to influence the probability of someone being charged with capital murder or receiving the death penalty “Those who murdered whites were found more likely to be sentenced to death than those who murdered blacks.” Amnesty International confronted the findings, assemble from government statistics and its tracking, that have revealed the death penalty is applied unreasonably. It released a report that in 2003, 290 blacks had been put to death on April 10 and at least 10 more black convicts were scheduled to be executed by the end of July. This brought the total to 300 death that year. The United States Department of Justice found that 48 percent of White defendants were able to not receive the penalty if he/she pleads guilty. But yet, only 25 percent of Black defendants and 28 percent of Hispanics were able to plea bargaining in the exchange to get a life sentence.
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The discussion on the death penalty has been ongoing for a long time with no end seeming close. The death penalty is the case where criminals convicted of rape or murder are supposed to be executed as they are thought to be a danger to society. Some people believe that a death sentence should not be passed to people, while some think the punishment should remain. To the opponents, they believe that the death sentence is brutal to society and without morals (Williams, 2016).
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A good example of this statistic is seen in the 25 states in the US where crime is on the rise. In the20 states where the death penalty has been legalized, the rates of crime remain at alarming rates. If the death sentence would have been an effective mode of combating crime, then there would be few cases of crime, but which is not the case (Steiker & Steiker, 2016). In the world of today, capital punishment has gained other purposes like revenge. Therefore, it should be noted that the death sentence is against human rights, and for that reason, it should not be practiced.
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Again, there is no evidence indicating that the death penalty is effective when it comes to the reduction and prevention of criminal activities. However, it has been shown that there are many misgivings when it comes to practicing this death penalty. Research shows that people who get executed usually are innocent. A good example is the conviction of Donald Marshall, who was behind bars for more than ten years for a killing he did not participate in. In the year 2017, statistics from prisons in the US showed that 137 inmates that were released were very innocent (Williams, 2016). Data concerning people that have been killed are hidden, making it difficult to find out the real number. Still, there is a possibility that among those executed, there are innocent people. Information indicates that 4 percent is the number of innocent people who have been executed. Therefore, it would be essential to get rid of the death penalty as it leads to the killing of innocent people.
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Statistics have also shown that the death penalty in the US is a segregative policy within the American population. The death penalty has had adverse effects on the African American population in the US as the population of death inmates in the US prisons stands at 5 percent. Besides, the population of African Americans in the US stands at 13 percent (Cholbi & Madva, 2018). The figures, therefore, indicate that the black community would be more likely to be executed as compared to a white individual. Accordingly, this misgiving of the death sentence should inform the US government to abolish the death penalty policy.
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The other claim that explains why the death penalty should be abolished concerns the moral standing and ethical perspective of the policy. No doubt that the death sentence is unethical and morally wrong. When a person kills another, the best punishment is not to murder them too but to try them and make them get out of such thoughts. There is no way that a person can steal from thieves or get to rape this that takes part in rape to revenge. Such a case is, with no doubt, depredating to authorities concerned with penal (Wilson, 2016). When there is a case of revenge, it means that it is condoning crime by getting to repeat it. By murdering those that have murdered others, it is getting the focus away from the victims having attention on the criminals. Therefore, it would be good to get rid of the death penalty as a sentence in the US and all over the world.
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In conclusion, the death penalty should not be passed to people today, as it is not ethical. As stated above, the death penalty leads to the execution of innocent people, and for that reason, it should be banned entirely. Again, the death sentence should be abolished as statistics have shown that the sentence is not supportive when it comes to bringing the rates of crime down, as seen in a number of crime-infested states in the US. Moreover, the death sentence should be abolished as it is not morally and ethically correct in the world today. In addition, with the cruelty of how the death penalty is practiced, like through lethal injection and electrocution, no doubt that the policy should be written off.
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The death penalty, also referred to as capital punishment is a legal course of where the state sends a death row inmate to execution as a punishment for a grave offense committed. Although not all crimes are punishable by death, there are strong opinions shared by both pro-death penalty and anti-death penalty supporters. For years in different countries, there have been different forms of the death penalty such as the firing squad, stoning, electric chair, lethal injection, etc. In 1976, another Supreme Court ruling found capital punishment to be constitutional.
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The federal death penalty was held unconstitutional following the Supreme Court’s opinion of Furman v. Georgia in 1972. Unlike the quick restoration of the death penalty in most states, the federal death penalty was not reinstated until 1988, and then only for a very narrow class of offenses. The Federal Death Penalty Act of 1994 greatly expanded the number of eligible offenses to about 60 (deathpenaltyinfo.com).
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com). The question that arises is if handling criminals in this kind of way inhumane or if it is effective. I will be explaining why it is an effective way to handle certain criminals. I believe that it is a great way to handle the people who the judge selects deserves it. There are many reasons why all states should approve of the death penalty when deserved. The reasons I find most helpful for my argument is that life sentences for criminals who should expect the death penalty are an unfair financial burden on the state, the death penalty is the only rational and moral response to some crimes, some crimes deserve the death penalty usually regarding the “eye for an eye” rule, and lastly, it makes the public not want to commit the same crime that some people get the death penalty.
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The ancient rule of an eye for an eye goes back to the bible days meaning that whatever the person that does the crime does the same will happen to them. So, for example, in 2017 a woman in Iran who left her victim blind after throwing acid on the man’s face was blinded in one eye and 7 years in the penitentiary. This rule is often brought up when referring to the death penalty. Especially with murderers, most people believe that when you take a person’s life an appropriate response from the judge is for them to be sentenced to death. The emperor Constantine, for example, ordered that runaway slave be punished by the amputation of afoot, and on one occasion instructed that the tongue of an informant by torn out. And by the sixth century CE, mutilation became quite common in Christian contexts as a form of punishment. Emperor Justinian’s legislation stated that heretical scribes and fraudulent tax collectors be punished by having their hands amputated (dailybeast.com).
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Now and days most people who commit murder will get jail time instead of the death penalty. If we were to kill the killers than it would make common people not even think about killing anybody. That would of course make the country a better place. It is the right of an individual to live peacefully and be free from harm. People who commit crimes like murder, rape, and other crimes of that caliber have no regard for other people or their feelings, these people are known as sociopaths. Since they violate other people’s lives, it is but fair that they are brought to justice and suffer the fate they rightfully deserve. People who are for capital punishment also talk about free will wherein an individual is given the right to do things in his or her own volition and he or she is responsible for his or her own fate” (greengarageblog.com).
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There has been some sick people that has done terrible things in American history that the only adequate consequence was the death penalty. In 1995, Duane Buck broke into the home of his ex-girlfriend, Debra Gardner, in Houston, Texas, after they broke up. Armed with two guns, he shot and killed Gardner and her friend Kenneth Butler while Gardner’s three children were in the home. He was tried, convicted and sentenced to death in 1997. It is awful acts like this that deserve the death penalty. Allen Lee Davis was sentenced to death for the murder of a pregnant woman and her two children, ages 5 and 9. Davis was executed using an electric chair by the state of Florida. That he committed a crime against a pregnant woman is bad enough; that he also took the life of her unborn child and then her two living children makes his execution more reasonable.
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A more famous case that ended in the death penalty was the case of Ted Bundy. Theodore Bundy was a serial killer and rapist who started doing his dirt in the 1970s. “He tended to prey on young and attractive college women, first near his home in Washington, then moving east to Utah, Colorado, and finally in Florida. Bundy would prey on these women with a ruse, often wearing his arm in a sling or his leg in a fake cast and walking on crutches. He would then use his charm and faked disability to convince his victims to help him carry books or unload objects from his car. He was also known to impersonate authority figures, such as police officers and firefighters, to gain victims’ trust before he attacked. Once they got to his 1968 tan Volkswagen Beetle, he would strike them over the head with a crowbar or pipe. After hitting his victims, he would immobilize them with handcuffs and force them into the vehicle. Bundy had removed the passenger seat and often stored it in the backseat or trunk, leaving an empty space on the floor for his victim to lie out of sight as he drove away” (alcatrazeast.com). He ended up confessing to over 30 murders and was sentenced to the electric chair. Also, there was a person like that deserves no time in prison and should be killed by the judge’s order. There are some instances that the death penalty is not necessary, but for monsters like that, the death penalty is absolutely called for.
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When certain people do a crime that could get them a possibility of the death penalty or life in prison, from a financial standpoint, it would be better for the country financially if you just got rid of them as harsh as it sounds. There is a cost to doing the whole process of the death penalty. Although it is more expensive than life in prison, the likelihood for a one-time offender to do the same crime is very high. Also, not knowing how long the person could live it, it could end up costing more in the long run. The Vera Institute of Justice did a survey, “The Institute surveyed spending by 40 states to determine the average expense per prisoner per state. The amount budgeted by the states for their corrections departments totaled $33.5 billion. However, another $5.4 billion of taxpayer money was paid by other state departments. Broken down by inmate, the average charge to taxpayers for each prison inmate in these state prisons was $31,286. Some states paid far more per prisoner and some paid less. The annual cost per inmate was highest in the state of New York at $60,076. Kentucky paid the least at an average $14,603 per inmate. The Vera Institute points out that the amount of spending does not necessarily reflect whether a state spends effectively” (gobankingrates.com).
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One of the best things that come with the death penalty is the perception that it makes for the people on the outside looking in. My father always told me that the definition of insanity is when a person does the same action repeatedly expecting a different result. I would hope that most people in the country would not be insane and try the heinous acts that people have done over time and expect that they would get a different treatment. Other people would not want to commit the same crime that got someone else killed. Even though there will always be a couple of hardheaded people who will do the crime anyway, most logical people know that if they would happen to kill multiple people the court will kill you for it. So really every crime doesn’t need the death penalty but the threat of it to “scare” citizens into not doing ridiculous acts. Paulo Coelho once said that “There are two kinds of idiots – those who don’t take action because they have received a threat and those who think they are taking action because they have issued a threat.”
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Every reasonable argument has solid pros and cons to the topic. Some people don’t have the same views on the topic as me and that is fine, but the cons in no way outweigh the pros. One of the biggest cons of the death penalty is that some say that it is a cruel way to handle the situations. They say that no crime is big enough to cost a person their life. I feel that if you take someone’s life you should be eligible for capital punishment. Another important argument supported by abolitionists is that the death penalty discriminates against minorities and the poor, as it is people from these groups that are more likely to be sentenced to death. For example, although African Americans make up only about 13% of the US population, almost 50% of convicts on the death row are African American (netivists.org). Minorities have been wrongfully accused of crimes for years, that is the only con about the death penalty.
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In conclusion, the death penalty has been used since the 1970s, and depending on cases in the future, it will be used again. The main reasons that capital punishment is good for the legal system that criminals who should expect the death penalty are an unfair financial burden on the state, the death penalty is the only rational and moral response to some crimes, some crimes deserve the death penalty usually regarding the “eye for an eye” rule, and lastly, it makes the public not want to commit the same crime that some people get the death penalty. There were many cases that ended in death such as Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gays, Allen Lee Davis, and Duane Buck. There are more monsters in the history of the country that makes the point that capital punishment should be permitted, for these reasons the death penalty should be established in all 50 states in America. Without history in a subject, there is no future, it has shown that it works multiple times over multiple years. That and more reasons make me personally say that I am a pro-death penalty because it is effective.
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One of the most contentious subjects in our country today is the revision of death penalty. Capital punishment is an absolute necessity in a nation that is in trouble. Rape these days is rampant and a debatable topic in the senate to be oppressed in capital punishment today. The criminal justice system stressed about administering the proper and precise way, instead of the productivity of the procedures required inside the system. And the delay in the due process that preserves the accused, accuser and society as a whole.
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It was abolished during the administration of Gloria Macapagal Aarroyo in year 2006. According to her, the death penalty should be abolished because it had not proven to be a deterrent to crime and had become a dead-letter law. Republic Act 9346 downgraded the death penalty to life imprisonment. Act No. 9346, also known as An Act Prohibiting the Imposition of the Death Penalty in the Philippines. Life imprisonment, on the different hand, has an indefinite duration, has no specific important points on pardon, and does now not come with compulsory accessory penalties.
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In the argument of “an eye for an eye” Amnesty International strongly stands that if anyone who pushes to execute someone also deserved to die. For they believe Death Penalty violates the most fundamental human law. Any innocent people that are mistakenly executed cannot be reversed every decision is cannot be unsaid. Those who have lost deserved justice but criminals also deserve to have a fair trial. They added that research shown that Death Penalty decreases crimes. Different countries have abolished the death penalty capital punishment.
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In the book of Dr. Maboloc PhD in titled “Applied Ethics” in Chapter 6 Social Justice according to John Rawls, “Each individual has a sacredness established on equity that even the welfare of society can’t abrogate”.A right I for equal welfare for each individual in the privilege from everyone who is living in a particular place he lived. An individual had the right that can’t be yielded for the benefit of the majority.Unmistakably an actual existence of one individual who carried out wrongdoing illegalshould not be presented to death [34].