The Death Penalty: Right Or Wrong?

The Death Penalty: right or wrong?
The Death Penalty is wrong, simply because it is cruel and no one deserves to go through such a terrible punishment. In my research, I hope to show how morally wrong, expensive, and solutions to prevent the death penalty. Our American government have tried many ways to make sure that a person who is sentenced to death is executed in a painless and humane way. They have tried hanging, firing squad, lethal gas, electrocution, and lethal injection. When an execution goes wrong and the victim endures greater pain than usual it is labeled as a botched execution. For example, the rope snapping or the body igniting during electrocution shows to me inhumane. According to Sarat he argues that over time 3 percent of all executions in the united states were botched in some way and percentages have risen even higher with lethal injections to 7 percent (Sarat, 347).
As you can see, this is just barbaric, but this has been going on since time began. In ancient Israel death was given to those who have committed murder, magic, blasphemy and disrespecting parents. In Britain, more than 200 crimes were sentenced to

It’s because it violates human rights but why are still practicing this? In the first five years of modern executions there were only six deaths from the years 1977 to 1982. In 1998, 68 people were executed and 74 executions were held in 1997. During the first two weeks of 1999 there were seven executions. To prevent these horrible acts, the anti-death penalty was established which consisted of religious organizations, nonprofit organizations, civil right groups and other groups that shared the same goal. This movement believed that the Death Penalty violates human rights, puts innocent people at risk, and is too expensive. According to Haires, Alaska rejected the death penalty of the basis of the costs of creating the death row (Haires,