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To sacrifice one’s welfare to the welfare of the majority is not a reason to take life. Whenever a person commits a crime against the public, one reason that is protecting him is his existence of being. The life of an individual as whole, there would no other reason that life as the coherent conveyor of importance. Aperson’s life can be best see as an organically, individual, or rather as the presence of an individual that might possibly be human.The presence of a being relates significance each individual is important regardless of what he do. Being ethically wrong by carrying out wrongdoings like assault is a motivation behind why there is a need in immediate respond from the society, justice system and government.
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In contrary utilitarianism whatever action is being assessed, we should pick the one that will create the best that result to greater good. In the language of utilitarian’s, we ought to pick the choice that “augments utility”. Every action or activity that creates the biggest measure of good is a good choice for utilitarian. As indicated by John Stuart utilitarian principle says that an action is good in extent as they will promote human satisfaction. Along these lines, Mill “centers about the results neither of an actions and not on rights nor in moral suppositions”.
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Utilitarianism, in contrast according to Shchercbinina to Kant’s theory of morality, bases the goodness of an activity on the outcomes it prompts – on the off chance that the outcomes are great, at that point the activity was great too. The decency of an activity is then dictated by the measure of satisfaction or despondency it causes. Utilitarian’s at that point argue that each individual’s satisfaction and welfare are similarly significant. In this manner, as indicated by utilitarian standards, a definitive objective throughout everyday life, the order of human lead is boosting utility.
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The amending of Death Penalty in the country is not the only problem but the social justice system itself. I don’t agree with Senator Sotto when he said there is no need to change our social justice system. Because I believe death penalty is not the answer for all the crimes happening. Capital punishment does not secure us from being not hurt by others. Also, it does not guaranteeusthat no more will perpetrate appalling wrongdoing. Indeed, in the Philippines, national wrongdoing 15.3% expanded in year 1999. There were seven people were executed for various shocking wrongdoings.The government must do an action to prove that peace is possible without blood. To show to the people that they are true not wolves in sheep’s clothing in doing the fair treatment of law.
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According to Lawrence Martin in assessing Jeremy’s Bentham influence in Political Economy. The major requirements for public service, according to Bentham, were moral, intellectual, and active aptitude. Bentham specifies policies and procedures governing personnel recruitment, selection, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, dismissal, etc. Selection, for example, is to be based on an open competitive examination in order to attract and secure the ablest talent. Without actually using the modern term, Bentham is essentially describing a merit system.
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Some agree and some disagree to this situation we are facing. Both side have their own point. One aims to protect the people with justice. Justice is served with due process of law.Truly, criminals that are subjected to the Death Penalty will experience a long procedure in official courtroom. Also, the official courtroom discovered him liable and exposed to detainment and could be exposed to capital punishment. Being in prison is sufficient for it is the result of what he does illegal and his neighbor. Being a long way from somebody you cherish and being not with them is all that could possibly be needed for an individual who commits a criminal offense. In the “Principle of Stewardship”[101] for we individual is only a defender and in charge of dealing with what the Almighty has given, and it is the endowment of life.
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Furthermore, we are also individual and we are not qualified for take one’s life. If this individual would be endured he could hurt increasingly honest individuals. Also, for that individual in power like police should take be in charge of that. Being in prison is sufficient for it is the result of what hedo is illegal and his neighbor. To have peace and harmonious world a law is needed. A rule to role the society in a same manner with selfless intentions results peace. The Second one is protect everyone’s life in all means.Even those harshest and most grounded hoodlums living Even in those people who commit rape and murder, to correct the misconduct Death Penalty is a must. For the happiness of greater number other things will be sacrifice.
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The position is to protect no matter who he is and what he does. After all he is a human being not a rational being. But, are the new social law is necessary to maintain safety, peace and harmony? All of us is created with goodness, our existence is already good. We are given freewill to decide and to be rational beings. Goodness is what and who we are. But some are taking advantage of this freedom. The freedom to express, and decide that cause misconception among laws. The capability of a person to do a certain action is showing his ability to do it. To become a rational being is hard because we are sinners in our own way.
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A philosopher once said, “I act therefore I am”. For in every action we do represent ourselves. In every action, we do we are showing who really are. In a way, we learn a thing that is morally good and evil. Temptations are rampant, entertaining, and deceiving. The temptation is what made them become criminals. We do not know them; even sometimes due process cannot prove the goodness of a person. It can only prove who the criminal is and the victim. For we know here in our country money is powerful. It takes time to earn trust and to really know a person. So it takes a long period of time to know a criminal. One should be with him all the way until he knows him. But, how can we prove that this one is innocent when we set justice in our hands. But how can the family of the sixteen years old church server Christine Silawan whose face was peeled off, exposing her skull get justice?
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Can the Commission on Human Rights facilitate the torment that the family feels this time caused by some uncouth and unethical human? Truly, I can say those individuals are the influence of illegal drugs, liquor and other substance. Capital punishment is a response to this sort of violation however the critical thing our legislature should address initially is itself. For how we can change other thing when we can’t change ourselves. To address unlawful the problem in drugs, first activity is to get the pusher without drug pusher tranquilize client will never again exist.
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A plant without the help of other necessary things such as soil, water, daylight and carbon dioxide will die. We need to kick the bucket up to its root to assure it will never grow again. In the book in titled Applied Ethics, Macer (2017) express that farfetched hole ought to be address first for it keeps on breaking the advancement of the general public. Just nation was work for the integrity of its kin. The welfare and the wellbeing is its central objective. We are given equivalent chances to pick and experience our lives with equivalent assurance of the law. The equity framework itself is an issue. Capital punishment must serve to the individuals who truly merit. Yet, after this earthly living the Alpha and the Omega will pass judgment on us as indicated by how we carry on with this life.
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I do support the Death Penalty. I don’t consider it cruel, why because some people do some things to the point they can be found guilty and they live will be taken. People don’t think about their consequences. “ If that was the case, there would be more killings by police than arrests. When murderers are confronted by a policeman, they normally surrender because of the threat of the lethal weapon pointed at them”. I don’t but then i do because some people deserve what they do but i also kinda be feeling sad.
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You should never walk around here thinking you can get away with the crimes with any crimes matter of fact. Especially if a man rape a kid or a teenager they should be killed. Can’t rape someone and think you about to go to jail in live your life there, NO! It stated “ if it anyone commits a crime of rape shall be punished by life imprisonment at hard labor without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentences. If the victim was underage the offender shall be punished by death. The death penalty should apply to killers of black people as well as to killers of whites. I agree and disagree with the Death Penalty.
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While some studies have found that there is some evidence that the death penalty may deter some, the death penalty serves as no deterrent, and many people that are being released from prison need rehabilitation services and employment showing that incarceration is ineffective. There is too much crime, at the same time, crime rates have decreased or stayed near notable lows, but the realization of crime is up, and the penal population has risen to unbelievable new heights.
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Not one part of the criminal justice system has brought down the crime rate. Prison is a central component of punishment that is outmoded and injurious for dealing with the rising crime rates. Long sentences and how criminal offenders are punished is closely related to the increased incarceration rate while the crime rates have declined even though they both are linked in some way. While reentry from prison is positively associated with crime rates, removal from the neighborhood is negatively associated with later crime (Clear et al. 111). “The experience of imprisonment may exert criminogenic effects by providing a criminal learning environment, by labeling and stigmatizing offenders as criminals or by constituting an ineffective way of addressing the underlying causes of crime” (Nagin, Cullen, and Jonson 127-128). Prisons provide little rehabilitative programming and often release individuals back to communities without proper support, leaving them vulnerable and likely to turn back to crime (Brennan Center For Justice 5).
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Today, imprisonment has become a substitute in the fight against crime. Increased drug-related arrest, mandatory minimum sentences, and the speed of incarceration has quadrupled during the last four decades (The Growth of Incar.). In crowded prisons and jails, there are questions of safety within these institutions and it limits the effectiveness of incarceration. According to James Kilgore, “jails have played a key role in the rise of mass incarceration” (117). The United States penal population at 2.2 million is by far the greatest in the world which is slightly below one-quarter of the world’s population is detained in American prisons (The growth of Incar.). Don Stemen claims, “the impact of incarceration on crime is limited and has been diminishing for several years” (5). Despite recent declines, our jail and prison population are four times larger than in the year 1980 (Enns et al. 9). A prison is an important option for incapacitating and punishing those who commit crimes, but the data show that a long prison sentence does little to deter people from committing future crimes (Nagin 2).
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The consensus blamed three-strike laws, mandatory minimum sentences, stop-and-frisk, and the rest of the anti-crime policy as the key factors in the crisis of incarceration (Gopnik par 2). The author also points out that, “John Pfaff has made the argument that another key factor was the prosecutorial overreach” (Gopnik). For decades, Louisiana locked up its citizens at nearly twice the national rate, many for nonviolent offenses, and for longer terms of serving sentences without the chance for probation or parole (Brangham and Woodruff). According to the article, “How the Incarceration Capital of America embraced Criminal Justice Reform,” said that the state of Louisiana has been the incarceration capital of America, in a country that incarcerates more people than anywhere else on Earth (Brangham). Modification in the sentencing, prison, and social policies are needed in order to reduce the certitude of the mass incarceration rate and pitfalls in the prison institutions that neglect the needs of modern society.
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Question eight of the article, “The Death Penalty: Questions and Answers” has pointed out that, “capital punishment is a savage remnant of an uncivilized society, which is unethical in practice and unfair discrimination in practice”(4). “Most capital crimes are committed ill-considered, during emotional stress or under the influence of drugs or alcohol” (Death Penalty Info Center 4). Capital punishment relates to a prisoner who has been sentenced to death but has not yet been executed, and capital punishment refers to the actual execution. Capital punishment could be enforced only if guilt is decided by evidence, leaving no room for an alternative explanation of the facts. Even if it is presumed there is a possibility of innocent prisoners being executed, it must be that the troublesome trial led to the current punishment. Critics of capital punishment claim that it has no deterrent influence on crime, and wrongly gives the government the power to take a human life, also perpetuate social injustices by targeting people of color and people who cannot afford exceptional attorneys (Death Penalty).
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John Lamperti states, “it is sometimes suggested that capital punishment provides added protection to the police or prison guards, and several states which have abolished capital punishment for murder keep it for the killing of a police officer or prison staff” (5). According to the National Academy of Sciences, “research on the deterrent effect of capital punishment is uninformative about whether capital punishment increases, decreases, or has no effect on homicide rates” (Nagin 1). According to an article, “some observers have pointed out that the term capital punishment is ironic because only those without capital get the punishment” (The Death Penalty 3).
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At the center of capital punishment, arguments sit the concept of deterrence. Deterrence can be split into two categories: specific deterrence and general deterrence. General deterrence has been defined as the “imposition of sanctions on one person, to show the rest of the public the expected costs of a criminal act, and discourage criminal behavior in the general population” (Nagin 96). Specific deterrence pertains to the effects of legal punishment on those who have already committed a criminal offense (Stafford and Warr). Johannes Andenaes states that, “if an individual is deterred by the experience of punishment, we speak of specific deterrence” (78). Certain crimes require a stronger punishment for deterrence, and capital punishment is the ultimate deterrent.
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The research on the death penalty has grasped the various consequences of the death penalty for deterring crime. However, many cross-state and cross-country studies that documented the results over the years have had a deterrent effect. Ernest van den Haag believes that, “the death penalty because of its finality, is more feared than imprisonment, and deters some prospective murders not deterred by the thought of imprisonment” (2). The death penalty is not a deterrent because most people that commit murder either do not expect to be arrested or never weighed the differences between a death sentence or life in prison before doing the crimes (Death Penalty Info 3). As a deterrent and a form of incapacitation, the death penalty helps to prevent future crime (Death Penalty Info Center 2). Morally, killing is wrong, and murdering on behalf of the state has been just as wrong, but the state gives a soldier the legal rights to kill in war, and if the police have killed someone or if a citizen in self-defense skills, it’s not called murder (Anderson 2). The source claims that “in the United States, since 1976, there have been 1,412 executions through 2015 and during this period there have also been 155 exonerations, findings of innocence in which the death sentence inmate was sent home” (Baumgartner and Lyman 69).
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Since the reinstatement of the death penalty nationwide in the mid-seventies, proponents of capital punishment might expect an accompanying drop in crime and instead, the national crime rate in the eighties and nineties soared to terrifying new heights, blowing the hell to the tenuous theory of the death penalty as a deterrent (Hamilton and Henderson 98). Question number five on The Death Penalty article claims that “study after study has found serious disparities in the charging, sentencing, and imposition of the death penalty” (3). People who oppose the death penalty state that it is given to more blacks, which make it racially biased and unfair to the black communities (Pro-death penalty). A break down of races that received a death sentence since 1997: White- 48.6%, Black- 40.9%, Hispanic- 8.9%, and Other 1.6% (Pro-death penalty). “Arguments for and Against the Death Penalty” states that “the existence of any systemic problems is no reason to abandon the death penalty system” (Death Penalty Info Center 13).
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Crime permeates our social fabric, and it has because we are all deviant and deviance is an underpinning of criminality (Kinnard). According to David Anderson, the determining issue is that knowing that no state governed law is perfect and the guilty one is punished and justice will be served regardless of whether the defendant is a man or a woman, rich or poor, black or white, educated or uneducated (Arguments for Death Penalty 2). The article, “Where American Criminal Justice Went Wrong” implies that our system is merciless, destructive, and above all, unjust (Neyfakh 4). The article also said that, “the criminal justice became a clash of mandates and bureaucratic rules, it became unaltered from what was once its basic function: separating the guilty from the innocent and delivering a fair punishment to those who deserved it” (Neyfakh 13). The author implies that, “a just system must do more than protect the rights of the innocent; it must also respect the humanity of the guilty” (Gopnik). Brennan Center for Justice emphasizes that, “it is time to change our laws to reflect and serve our country’s current public safety needs” (6).
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Enns, Peter K., Christopher Wildeman, Youngmin Yi, Megan Comfort, Alyssa Goldman, Hedwig Lee, Christopher Muller, Sara Wakefield, and Emily A Wang, Family History of Incarceration Study. 2, Aug, 2018. 31115615, Version 4. NORC at the University of Chicago. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, Mar-26-2020. www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/publications/fwdus-and-cornell-university-every-second-impact-incarceration-crisis-americas-families-2018/
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The death penalty should be eliminated due to the types of drugs used, the issue of race in sentencing, it is morally wrong, and the mentally ill cannot get a fair trial. The type of drugs in these executions are suspect. The race of the offender can play a large role in their sentencing and this is a big deal when deciding whether or not this person has the right to keep on living. The death sentence itself is morally wrong because humans have no right to “play God” and decide whether or not to take the life of other human beings.
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When traditional drugs used for lethal injection begin to “dry up,” states are forced to turn to alternatives such as trying combinations of drugs that can in hand lead to botched and “inhumane” executions. Michelle Johnson states, Death-penalty states also face growing pressure over lethal injection, as sources of traditional drugs dry up and states are forced to try new drug combinations. After Oklahoma botched execution in April, President Obama called for a federal review of protocols used in state executions. Meanwhile, support for capital punishment has gradually diminished, though the practice continues to have widespread support in some states.
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This botched execution took place due a new drug protocol in Oklahoma. The man on death row was Clayton Lockett and he was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of 19-year-old Stephanie Nieman. This drug used on Clayton Lockett caused to writhe and groan just minutes after the drug was administered. The drug was injected into Clayton Lockett at 6:23 p.m. and at 6:42 p.m. it was determined by doctors that Lockett’s vein had collapsed. Lockett ended up dying due to a heart attack. This is just one case of the many in which the drugs administered failed and ended up causing a slow and painful death. If the death penalty were to be administered the death should be quick and painless in order to make it more “humane.” This, however, is not the case therefore this method of justice is ironically unjust. Another example of a botched execution took place in Ohio with the execution of Dennis McGuire. From the time that the lethal injection is administered, the process should take only 5 minutes until the inmate is officially pronounced deceased. This however was not the case with Dennis McGuire in which his execution took 3 times the normal amount. The death of Dennis McGuire took place within 15 minutes in which he was suffering brutally. Michelle Johnson states,
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Eyewitnesses described him gasping and struggling in his final minutes after being injected with the sedative midazolam and hydromorphone, a painkiller derived from morphine. McGuire’s lawyers had argued against the use of the drugs, but a federal court approved their use after the state’s supply of pentobarbital, a commonly used sedative, dried up. After a review of McGuire’s death, Ohio officials announced they would increase the dosages of both drugs in future executions.
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These cases of botched executions all have one thing in common, the type of drug administered. With experimentations taking place on humans with different kinds of drugs more suffering comes out of the process. If drugs were to be labeled the most inhumane form of execution and were to uniformly be used across all states that administer the death penalty, there should be a federally regulated drug or classification of drugs that can only be used. Christina L. Lyons states, “Pharmaceutical companies, meanwhile, are increasingly taking legal action to prevent the use of their drugs in lethal injections, forcing states to use other drugs that death penalty opponents say make botched executions more likely.” This point made by Christina L. Lyons would only further complicate my previous solution to these problems. If pharmaceutical companies refuse to allow their drugs to be used in for these purposes, it will only be more difficult to regulate a list of permissible drugs for the purpose of execution.
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Another issue in the sentencing of capital punishment is the implicit bias within judges. Christina L. Lyons states, “A study commissioned by Gregory’s attorneys found that black defendants were at least 3.5 times more likely to be sentenced to death in the state than white defendants.” This statistic is significant because people are more likely to die due to their race. This is something that must be taken into consideration when sentencing someone to death. People of color have accounted for 43% of total executions within the United States from 1976 until now. 55% of people awaiting execution are African American. Although it cannot be denied that statistically, African Americans tend to commit crimes due to several reasons such as community and such, this does not explain the disproportionate amount of African Americans that have been executed or are awaiting their execution. Some of this is attributed to implicit biases within the judicial system.
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Following that action, a 7-1 high court majority in late May ordered a new trial for Timothy Foster, an African-American convicted of murder by an all-white Georgia jury, and sentenced to death in 1987. Citing prosecution records from the jury selection process, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority that the notes showed a “focus on race . . . [that] plainly demonstrates a concerted effort to keep black prospective jurors off the jury.” Justice Clarence Thomas, the court’s only black justice, was the only dissenter from the decision.
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Instances such as these promote these implicit biases because white people, on average, are more likely to have these biases against people of color due most likely to less exposure. African American people on average show less implicit biases against people of their own race so it is important to have a diverse jury. These biases are not conscious instead of unconscious labeling them implicit. Race should not have any effect on the outcome/verdict especially when it comes to such an important and substantial decision such as the sentencing of a human being to death.
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The idea of capital punishment is not only immoral but ironically unjust. Sentencing a human to die is not something that should be up to other humans to decide. The idea of a “humane” execution does not exist because execution in it of itself is wildly cruel and inhumane. Humans should not have authority over other human beings to decide the outcome of their lives. Democratic Gov. Jack Markell called the death penalty an instrument of imperfect justice. The death of a human being does not bring them justice because they do not pay for the horror they have caused. Someone who has committed such atrocities to deserve capital punishment does not actually pay for their actions as they are dead. If for example, one were to commit murder and then receive the death sentence, the sentence would not make things right. This system runs on the basis of the “eye for an eye” idea but in reality, 2 deaths do not make things right. It is not a humane punishment to sentence another human being to death. The life or death of a person is a sphere of influence that other fellow human beings have no right to control. Republican Mark Earley says that he had “come to the conclusion that the death penalty is based on a false utopian premise. That false premise is that we have had, do have, and will have 100 percent accuracy in death penalty convictions and executions.” This however is not the case. This death penalty is built on the premise that we will get things right without a doubt and for us humans to believe something so naive is simply immoral when dealing with such a heavy topic as the life or death of another living person. The death penalty should be eliminated because it is, all in all, immoral.
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The death penalty should be eliminated because it does not allow for fair trials for the mentally ill. The mentally ill depending on the severity of their mental illness do not have fair trials when it comes to the sentencing of capital punishments. Many of these people are unfairly sentenced to death because of the mental illnesses that they suffer from. Instead of killing these people options to help them should be offered. For example, Vernon Madison was sentenced to death for the murder of an Alabama police officer in 1985 but due to his dementia, he was unable to recall the crime he committed and therefore that sets up an argument for if the death penalty should still be used. There is constant discussion about whether or not a prisoner’s mental illness should give them protection from execution. The mentally ill are many times incapable of controlling themselves due to their mental illness so instead of putting these people to death for the heinous crimes they committed, they should be helped to deal with their mental illness. There is no way to account for one’s mental illness and its effect on the crime committed therefore the death penalty should be all in all eliminated because it serves no purpose and it and is an unjustified end to the means.
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The death penalty should be eliminated due to the suspect drugs being used to carry out the executions, the issue of race, and how it affects the leniency of the judge/jury, it is immoral from a humanitarian point of view, and the mentally ill cannot get a fair trial that accurately accounts for their mental illness. The drugs used in executions only lead to more harm than justice as they are not well regulated by federal or state law. Race plays a large role in the decisions carried out by judges because people of color are significantly more prone to receive the death sentence for the same crime. The death sentence itself is absolutely immoral as humans have no right to decide whether or not to take the life of another fellow human being. Lastly, the mentally ill are unable to get a fair trial that accounts for their mental illness which can cause unfair sentencing especially when the sentence is death. The death penalty should be eliminated.
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According to the Telegraph, “more than 30% of the world’s countries still practice the death penalty and the United States is an exception in its continued use of the death penalty among its allies that don’t practice it”. Some of the supporter for death penalty may say that it serves as a deterrent to crime, but I think the capital punishment should not be used because it is a misuse of the government’s budget, and there is a risk of executing innocents people, also it is an uncivilized, uneffective form of punishment, serving no good for society as a whole.
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S. judicial system grants the accused many opportunities to defend himself and to avoid capital punishment. According to the United States Department of Justice, “between 1973 and 2013, around 75% of those who were sentenced to death were not executed and around one-third of their sentences were overturned on appeal and others died of natural causes or had their sentences commuted.” Death penalty trials are often complicated, costly, and time consuming since the person has to go through a series of trials. In Kansas, defense costs for death penalty trial averaged around $400,000 each, confirmed by the Death Penalty Information Center.
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This high cost multiplies by the amount of trial and adding to all the additional cost sums up to an average of $1.26 million to execute a person compared to an average of $740,000 to incarcerate a prisoner serving a sentence of life without parole to the end. Nevertheless, the death penalty is expensive and sometime, misuse of money since three-fourth of people sentenced to a death row we’re never executed after going through series of costly trials, by continuing this practice, we will put more pressure on the government’s budget. The money wasted on death trials can otherwise be used on something else more beneficial to society like improving infrastructure in the country or publicizing the health care system.
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Throughout the history of the world, there were many cases of mistakenly convicted individuals, who were put to death but later discovered to be innocent. According to the Atlantic, this tragedy happened on Carlos DeLuna where he was put to death in December 1989 for murder in Corpus Christi, but he was later founded to be not guilty because of the evidence the investigator found after his death. Imagine being that person, having to face death even though you never did anything wrong and were innocent. By getting rid of the death penalty, we could release those who were innocent rather than making the irreversible mistake of putting them to death. Even so, having one innocent person put to death wrongfully is a violation unto ourselves. You may think that states with the death penalty may have a lower crime rate but according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports, states that abolished death penalty have 30% lower crime than states with the death penalty. This proves that the death penalty serves as a terrible deterrent to crime. Today, many people commit serious crime knowing the consequence of the capital punishment. In the heat of time, when a person is not thinking logically and clearly, the existence of the punishment doesn’t usually cross their mind. Therefore, death penalty in most cases has no influence over the decision making of the person doing the crime.
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Some people may argue that the taking of life can restore the balance of justice and show society that murder and other heinous crimes are intolerable. Likewise, for people who commit the cruelest crime, they deserved the worst punishment under our law system. On the other hand, I think retribution or in other word revenge is not a justified reason to inflict our capital punishment on the people who commit the crime. The founding father created the law and criminal system to demonstrate the respect for life, and even the life of a murderer. It should be noted that encouraging our feeling of vengeance will only extend the chain of violence in people and will do no good for society as a whole.
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Overall, the ultimate capital punishment of the death penalty should be abolished by all states in America for the reason that it is ineffective and has no real benefits to society as a whole. Not only is the death penalty a costly method to punish people as it cost $1.26 million on average to execute one person but it serves as a very bad deterrent to crime, shown in reports done by the FBI. Even in some tragic cases, the innocent can get executed and by getting rid of the death penalty it can prevent these tragedies from happening. A better solution compared to the death penalty could be a sentence without parole, since it prevents the criminal from doing the crime and it serves as a justified punishment for them.
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The Death Penalty is a very diverse and well debated topic and all around the world it is used. Typically death penalty would only be used on people who commit very bad crimes and are not suitable for everyday life. Most say that The Death Penalty should only be charged to a person who killed someone therefore they lost their right to live when they killed the other person. However if we punish the wrong person and end up killing them then the state would be in trouble for killing the innocent person.
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A religious point of view can affect the topic of Death Penalty a lot since it does state you can not kill people otherwise you have broken one of the ten commandments and does not make the situation any better because everyone just keeps killing so there really is no justice to it. Finally the last reason that death penalty should not be legal is because it is not very punitive or punishing due to the fact they do not have to suffer or truly answer for their crimes there just getting killed.
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Or said by David Zink an inmate who was executed ‘For those who remain on death row, understand that everyone is going to die. … Statistically speaking, we have a much easier death than most, so I encourage you to embrace it and celebrate our true liberation before society figures it out and condemns us to life without parole and we too will die a lingering death.’ which ultimately proves the point of why death penalty should be illegal.
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The Death Penalty should be illegal, it is the worst form of punishment ever created. A main debated area of the death penalty would have to be the part in which people die but ultimately don’t serve a fulfilling punishment. In all ways but none the death penalty has a crucial effect on scaring people out of crimes due to the fact they are dying due to a extreme crime and are getting punished to death. The death penalty should be illegal because it cost the state that issues it more that 120 thousand dollars typically for one person’s lawyer fees and for the state to get the lethal injection drugs. However if someone does commit a heinous crime they could also be put on death row and literally sit for several years before even being executed. Therefore the state spends money on the criminal for so many years that it literally can have a economic effect on the state in which it was issued. This causes not only instability in the economic status of the state but the cost of living goes up and the money people make also could fluctuate. The main cause of these crimes could be mental issues and or childhood abuse it could come from a multiple number of medical issues anything that really provokes a person to commit the crime and get charged for it. The biggest thing that affects inmates would be like gangs or someone who purposely makes a person do these crimes, therefore if we help people achieve a dream or a thing they want to achieve then they could possibly stop looking to get into trouble and or cause crimes to happen. In several studies people have been linked to committing crimes that are provoked not only by people but by mental illnesses. There are many topics to this viewpoint and one is expressed by a man named nathan peterson” Capital punishment is an intolerable denial of civil liberties and is inconsistent with the fundamental values of our democratic system. The death penalty is uncivilized in theory and unfair and inequitable in practice. Through litigation, legislation, and advocacy against this barbaric and brutal institution, we strive to prevent executions and seek the abolition of capital punishment.
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Said by the supreme court” Capital punishment is cruel and unusual. It is cruel because it is a relic of the earliest days of penology, when slavery, branding, and other corporal punishments were commonplace. Like those barbaric practices, executions have no place in a civilized society. It is unusual because only the United States of all the western industrialized nations engages in this punishment. It is also unusual because only a random sampling of convicted murderers in the United States receive a sentence of death. This also has a hidden meaning to it. It states that other sources of punishment would be more fulfilling or more useful because it’s like putting a dog to sleep when the dog bit or killed something your ultimately putting the being out of its misery and sending it to a better place so there’s not truth or justice to killing someone. Some specialist that study crime and data say that “They argue that the death penalty executing those that are guilty. Capital punishment takes many steps to assure that fewer mistakes is made. In support of their side it is true that criminals get a fair trial in the legal system. Our system assures that lives will be save by execution, just the opposite there little evidence to prove that the death penalty saves lives.” the chance of someone being innocent is just way too much to risk due to people commiting crimes there should really be clear evidence before even sentencing someone to a capital punishment because if you murder an innocent person you will definitely cause people to be angry and you’d punish the wrong person and leave them available to commit another crime scott free.
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The first problem is that the justice system is never 100% correct. “Judges and juries can convict the innocent like Donald Marshall, who was jailed for more than a decade for a murder he did not commit. Most crimes end up with people getting jail time or an alternative punishment. Sometimes people are actually innocent. Due to people only going to jail the sentencing can be reversed. A person who is sentenced to death penalty is not . the jury also plays a big role in sentencing someone no matter what people can be sentenced to a crime they didn’t commit due to a jury member possibly having something against another person and even though the jury gets “tested” before the hearing or case they could still potentially hold hatred toward someone or something. This also brings the conclusion that The death penalty is unjust and morally wrong. When a person kills someone else you can’t just punish them by death. the correct punishment is not to murder him or her, you can potentially fix them by a rehabilitation center or possibly a ward of some sort. Why do we murder the murderers if all were going to do is murder again it would be an endless stream of murdering. In a case study scientist and researchers have found that 36 states ban the death penalty or do not have it as a punishment in their from of trial by jury. This proves that most people and states think that the death penalty should not be legal and proves more and more how morally wrong the death penalty is. Not only is killing someone hard to do but to even think of killing another person sickens most. To even fathom the thought of killing them would honestly take a cold hearted person or someone who personalizes in death so typically there would not be anyone who’s willing to take another person’s life that should not be charged with a crime.
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In some research it was found that most people who grew up with a not so good childhood or not as equal or does not have as much stuff or as nice stuff as other people were more likely to get a capital punishment crime and were later killed for a crime they commited. Most people who were either treated wrong or were mentally ill have the hardest time overcoming not commiting crimes this is what should truly be looked at when charging someone of a crime. Some people look at the death penalty as “ An eye for an eye” and if everyone goes around having the same mentality or lives the same then what kind of society are we really living in. if everyone lived by the same set standards or the same religion or same sex/gender than technically that makes us all the same and makes all of us a criminal. There could also be a racial difference here, if someone on the jury say does or does not like a person from a different race then you’re definitely going to get an opposite judgement than what is really deserved and could potentially put someone’s life in the hands of someone else causing tremendous pain for not only them but the families and friends of an innocent person.
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Capital Punishment has long been a controversial issue. Your political views or religious beliefs may cause you to favor one side of the argument against the other. The death penalty is the most extreme punishment you can receive for committing a crime. But is the death penalty worth its exorbitant cost? The death penalty is vastly more expensive than the cost of a life sentence in prison. The “threat,” “deterrence,’ “terror” does not exist to criminals. They do not fear the ultimate penalty.
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26 million. $90,000 of that figure could be saved by simply placing the person in prison for life. If each death row inmate that was executed in 2018 would have just been sentenced to life in prison, $2,250,000 would have been saved. In the last ten years, 357 individuals were executed. $32,130,000 could have been used for something more deserving. The government is using taxpayers’ money to pay for these executions, but are they efficient? 1,427,341 violent crimes were committed in 2017 along with 7,694,086 property crimes. Capital punishment, time in prison, community service, ect., is not stopping the people from committing the crimes–this is a deterrence issue, not an efficiency one.
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The deterrent is not effective so stop throwing the money away by continuing with capital punishment. The vast majority of homicides are spontaneous and domestic, many even know their killer personally. Many criminals also realize that only about 50% of people sentenced to the death penalty actually receive the punishment. From January to April of 2019, 14 people have received the death penalty, three have been executed, six have stayed, four have been rescheduled, and one has not reached the date yet. That means nearly 46% of 2019’s prosecuted persons have been executed. This does not strike any fear into the heart or mind of these people that are committing these horrid crimes. The death penalty has been active and ongoing for centuries. Is it time to put the ancient method of death to a halt? Is the price we pay to complete the execution really worth it? Many people face the death penalty but the execution is unlikely. Taxpayers are sending their money to the government to fund this method and for its price, it is not effective. Yes, the person will be executed but the crimes are still being committed by other criminals. The threat of death does not strike fear into these individuals. So why do we continue to pay for it?
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Capital punishment was used back in medieval times, ancient history, and the middle ages. In medieval and early modern Europe, before the development of modern prison systems, the death penalty was also used as punishment. While Henry VIII of England ruled, nearly 72,000 people were executed. In early modern Europe, great panic regarding witchcraft flooded Europe and the European colonies in North America. Widespread claims that Satanic witches were operating as an organized threat to Christendom to hurt Christians. As a result, thousands of people were executed for witchcraft and executed through witch trials during the early modern period. In Nazi Germany, there were many forms of capital punishment. Hanging, decapitation, and death by shooting, gassing, etc. Military organizations employed capital punishment as a discipline technique to soldiers that disobeyed laws. One method of execution has also been firing squad once guns became common amongst soldiers in Nazi Germany. More than one million Soviet citizens were executed during the Great Terror of 1937 to 1938, nearly all were executed by a single shot to the head face or neck. The Jewish citizens that lived in Nazi Germany at the time of Adolph Hitler faced various forms of capital punishments after being placed into concentration camps. Many were taken away from their families and as soon as they reached the camp were killed.
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Movements in most of the world have been to change to private and less painful executions. France developed the guillotine in the 18th century, while Britain banned hanging, drawing, and quartering in the early 19th century. “Hanging by turning the victim off a ladder or by kicking a stool or a bucket, which causes death by suffocation, was replaced by long drop ‘hanging’ where the subject is dropped a longer distance to dislocate the neck and sever the spinal cord.” Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar, Shah of Persia introduced throat-cutting as a painless alternative to violent methods of executions used in those time periods. In the U.S., electrocution, and gas inhalation were introduced as more humane executions rather than hanging, but have been almost entirely superseded by lethal injection. Very few countries still have slow hanging methods, decapitation, and stoning. Even though these methods are less violent they are still killing people and costing people a lot of money.
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¨A study of executions in the United States between 1977 and 2001 showed that at least 34 of the 749 executions, had ‘unanticipated problems or delays that caused, at least arguably, unnecessary agony for the prisoner or that reflect gross incompetence of the executioner’. The rate of these ‘botched executions’ remained steady over the period of the study. A separate study published in The Lancet in 2005 found that in 43% of cases of lethal injection, the blood level of hypnotics was insufficient to guarantee unconsciousness. However, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2008 (Baze v. Rees) and again in 2015 (Glossip v. Gross) that lethal injection does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment.”