Capital Punishment is Not an Effective Crime Deterrent

While Capital Punishment has been one of the most feared things of our

time, it is still being questioned if it is unconstitutional. The Death Penalty

is being enforced in more than 100 countries in the world and are usually

used in politically-related cases. Although it has been the case in many

countries throughout the world it has been said that the Death Penalty is "cruel

and unusual punishment" which is a direct violation to the Bill of Rights.

Capital Punishment is a certain copy of the earliest days of slavery, when you

had no rights or any different opinion, and like then, executions have no place

in our civilized society. The Death Penalty, throughout it's years of existence,

has always been against the views of the people, either because of it's

brutality or because of it's lack of effectiveness.

The Death Penalty has been opposed by the people since the beginning of

it's era, which was around 1976, when the United States Supreme Court declared

that the death penalty was not against the Constitution. But if read directly

the Eight Amendment of the U.S. Constitution "prohibits cruel and unusual

punishments" and not only that but abolitionists also think that Capital

Punishment ensures Americans equality for all . The abolitionists also did a

poll which ensured that there was "no support for the view that the death

penalty provides a more effective deterrent to police homicides than alternative

sanctions. Not for a single year was evidence found that police are safer in

jurisdictions that provide for capital punishment" The highest homicide rates

were also in Death Penalty states with executions: 9.7 homicides per 100,000

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committed by the convicted person because it is judicial murder. Capital

Punishment is a brutal act that does not enhance respect for human life, it

cheapens and degrades it . Abolitionists also believe that "the state is a

teacher and when it kills, it teaches vengeance and hatred. If the "barbaric

practice of execution has been abolished in most major industrial countries,

even in south Africa, so can the United States ("Death"2). "An execution is a

dramatic, public spectacle of official, violent homicide that teaches the

permissibility of killing people to solve social problems--the worst possible

example to set for society" Will society put money into schools, rehabilitation,

community services, and jobs, or will it bankrupt itself with more prisons and

more victims? The death penalty is no solution to violence.