Persuasive Essay On The Death Penalty

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The death penalty fails to act as a deterrent to crime. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(1) Starting off, I am going to present to you a fact: the amount of people executed in the United States in twenty-fifteen (2015) alone was twenty seven (27). Let me give you another statistic, the U.S. was found to have the 5th highest amount of people executed last year, first was found to be China. Strangely enough, the number of criminals executed in China is never officially released, but this number is predicted to be in the thousands (1000s). I see these as unnecessary and unfair deaths. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(2) …show more content…

This is one of the supposed positive attributes of the death penalty that a government can cling to. This superstition is not backed by statistics and expert opinion. In 2009, an American study was released titled: "DO EXECUTIONS LOWER HOMICIDE RATES?: THE VIEWS OF LEADING CRIMINOLOGISTS". The study came to the conclusion that: “the death penalty does not add deterrent effects to those already achieved by long term …show more content…

This is mainly due to: “the long and complex judicial process for capital punishment cases.” Even with such systems in place, there can never be a guarantee of not executing an innocent person. The fact that this controversial “act of justice” is still occurring is astounding. There is more than enough evidence to conclude that it is more beneficial for both the state and the prisoner to not be put to death. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(14) I believe the age of capital punishment should be over, humanity has evolved past this barbarism and so should the nations of the world. I do not, for one minute condone criminal activity, but killing a being just for the sake of vengeance is wrong. We must think of the redeemed individuals like Jose Briseno, who in the face of inevitable demise, can make a positive

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