1429 the number of executions conducted since 1976 just in the United States, 1260 executed by lethal injection, 158 executed by electrocution, 11 executed in the gas chamber, 3 executed by hanging and 3 by a firing squad according to the Death Penalty Information Center since 1973, more than 150 people have been released from death row with evidence of their innocence. And today 140 countries have abolished Capital Punishment in law or practice.
How would you feel if you had to make the decision whether someone should live their life behind bars, or be sentenced to death? This has been a controversial issue for some time now. There are different opinions on whether the death penalty should be an actual option for those who commit crimes/murders. Those who are more religious are more likely to be against the death penalty and refer to the Eighth Amendment, which states that no one should have to be put through cruel and unusual punishment.
The death sentence has become a huge controversy in the United States over the past forty years. Over those forty years there has been a lot of less tax payers and donators willing to pay money to the justice system to execute a criminal. These types of people that have helped to pay in the past for these executions have stopped due to them not wanting a death connected to them in any way, or because they simply see life in prison a more suitable punishment. Without the funding needed, the criminals on death row are not able to receive their proper punishment within a reasonable amount of time. A lot of times the criminals never get their proper punishment due to lack of funding. Also, criminals that commit extreme crimes may not get the death penalty due to it not being registered as capital murder. These are all issues that have affected the death penalty over time.
The death penalty is an outdated, costly, discriminating, form of punishment that should be abolished in all states throughout the U.S. Currently, the death penalty is legal in 34 U.S. states. Among those besides the common and heavily expensive lethal injection for killing, states Arizona, Missouri and Wyoming allow gas-chamber executions. Delaware, New Hampshire and Washington state still allow inmates to choose hanging as well as lethal injection. This just shows the barbaric practice of the death penalty and how outdated it is. Besides the discrimination made towards people in cases because of their class or color. Mental health patients are also greatly at risk here in the U.S.
For many years, the death penalty has been used to execute people who had committed horrific crimes. Even though it is still practiced by the justice system, there are people who support it while, there are others are against it. Many people feel that the death penalty is a cruel way to kill a person, while others believe it is capital punishment. When someone is sentenced to death, you have to think about the possibility that person might be innocent and you will end up putting their family through a lot of suffering and heartache. Is the justice system really willing to go through all this in order to gain some form of closure? I recently came across an article “Punishment should fit the crime,” in which they were supporting the use of The death penalty. It was definitely against my beliefs about enforcing the death penalty.
The death penalty brings conversation in all spectrums of rhetoric. Some view the death penalty as needed and an appropriate punishment for those who are deserving. While others view the death penalty as being unconstitutional by way of cruel and unusual punishment. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, capital punishment or the death penalty is “Execution of an offender sentenced to death after conviction by a court of law of a criminal offense. Capital punishment should be distinguished from extrajudicial executions carried out without due process of law. The term death penalty is sometimes used interchangeably with capital punishment, though imposition of the penalty is not always followed by execution (even when it is upheld on appeal), because of the possibility of commutation to life imprisonment." This shows, according to antideathpenalty.org, the first person to ever receive the death penalty in america was in 1608, a man was spying for the spanish government in jamestown. from 1608 to modern times the death penalty has been apart of our judicial system.
The death penalty is something very huge in the United States some may ask what the death penalty is, and some already may know. The death penalty is when someone commits a crime so cruel that the government has no other option but to put the criminal to sleep aka send him to death row. They don 't just shoot the people who have committed the crimes they inject them with a lethal injection. But before then, they have death row and they have some time to live before being injected with the lethal injection. Many people think this punishment is really harsh and shouldn’t be given even though the people have committed some pretty hateful crimes. There are currently 31 states with the death penalty being active with the remaining 19 states having abolished the law. It isn 't easy getting the death penalty in the United States, so if someone where to get this death penalty then this means they have done a crime like no other and it had to have shocked and frightened many people. Most of the people who are receiving the death penalty are the ones who are killing mass groups of people, hate crimes, racial crimes and any other crime that will make headline news.
Death penalty has been the highest form of criminal punishment in the American judicial system since the 13 colonies. The death penalty in the United States of America is a constant source of controversy. It has taken the form of hanging, stoning, drowning, burning, beheading, gas chamber and firing squad. Taking a person 's life for criminal behavior is wrong. People should be informed about this topic about the cause & effect, History, and types of death penalty like hanging firing squad and gas chamber.
The death penalty is a cruel and unnecessary punishment. It promotes violence and terrorism. The death penalty does not deter a crime, and it costs millions of dollars. The death penalty does not reduce crimes. The death penalty is immoral and it shows discrimination. The death penalty is unfair. The death penalty needs to be abolished because no one deserves to die. Two wrongs do not make a right. Twenty percent have showed that people who were executed was found not guilty.
“An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind” (Gandhi). The same concept of retribution causing more problems than it solves is applicable for the issue of capital punishment. For the past 50 years, the United States (U.S.) has been traditionally using the death penalty to punish those who commit murder. Since the late 1900s, death row inmates have received death by lethal injection or electrocution without the public questioning the practice. However, in recent years, capital punishment has come into light because of death penalty abolitionists who question the government’s implementation of a practice that has numerous legal, moral, and execution flaws. Nonetheless, there are those who advocate for retributive justice known as retentionists. The government continued use of the death penalty is preposterous because although death by lethal injection the more humane method of executing a person, ultimately, the institution of such a practice is inequitable and a violation of the citizen’s Eighteenth Amendment rights.