...The death penalty has been around for a long time. It has been and still is a substantial part in the punishment of those who did not obey the law. This punishment instilled fear in many, it made everyone ‘deathly’ afraid. It would put those who defied the laws in a ‘grave’ situation.(Pun). This is where the question come in as to whether the death penalty is Constitutional, or even humane. This act has been around ever since the eighteenth century B.C. in the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon and is still being used today for criminals who is seen to be lost souls, non redeemable. Of course, the saying, ¨an eye for an eye,¨ is reasonable. What if the people that have the person has been raised by and cared for one day suddenly died because...
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...Death Penalty In this paper I will be talking about if the death penalty is wrong or if it is ok to take away someone's life, and I will also be talking about why we even started the death penalty. In my own opinion I believe that the death penalty is wrong and a few reasons why it is wrong. The people who would normally get the death penalty are the people who take others life. Also, in some states if you rape a child you could get the death penalty. Now, a few reasons why the death penalty is wrong is because it is still taking away someone’s life. If you are killing that person who took away someone else's life means that you are no better than them. The only difference there is between the killer and they person who is killing the killer is, the person who is going to kill the person in the chair has the judge knowing they are doing it, whoever the person in the chair families knows you are doing it. No matter what it is still wrong and you are still taking away someone’s life....
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...Our principal and ideals of the death are that we are all just fine that they killed someone else so we should kill them for killing but that is morally wrong and everyone has an inalienable human right to life, even those who commit murder; sentencing a person to death and executing them violates that right. Ideally with the death penalty it will be abolished because of its inhumane attributes and its nonprofit to society it is cheaper to use the tax payer dollars to keep them in jail then to kill them. With this our criminals would actually learn what they did wrong and if they already do would learn their lesson. If it costs more to kill someone then why would why use something more expensive and less ethical and in humane. I am almost...
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...Should the death penalty be mandatory for people that kill other people PANNASASTRA UNIVERSITY OF CAMBODIA Commitment to excellence Commitment to excellence PROFESSIONAL WRITING HOMEWORK ESSAY Topic Should the Death Penalty Be Mandatory For People That Kill Other People? Submitted to Professor LY Meng Written By NHEN Socheath May 30, 2014 Brainstorming Process Should the death penalty be mandatory for people that kill other people? Proponents Opponent * Guarantee justice for the victims - A life in prison is enough * Decrease Crime Rates - Crime remains the same * An eye for an eye is the solution - give a second chance to change * Killing a murderer is fair - Killing is always wrong * Killing is not cruel - Killing is cruel * Practices sometime go wrong - Risk of taking innocent life * It is morally right and fair - Against religious ethics Proponents Opponent * Guarantee justice for the victims - A life in prison is enough * Decrease Crime Rates - Crime remains the same * An eye for an eye is the solution - give a second chance to change * Killing a murderer is fair - Killing is always wrong * Killing is not cruel - Killing is cruel * Practices sometime go wrong - Risk of taking innocent life * It is morally right and fair - Against religious ethics OUTLINING I. Introduction Thesis Statement: I personally do not agree that death penalty can put...
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...18-10638 Should Death Penalty Is Compulsory For The People Who Kills Other People? Death penalty is a very contradictive topic and has received tremendous support to abolish it. Society considers death penalty to be very unethical and barbaric. Death penalty is basically a legal process in which the criminal is executed for committing serious crimes such as murder, rape or human trafficking. Death penalty is the most debatable issue in the world. There are also some people who think that death penalty should be legalized in order to provide justice to the people. However I personally disagree that death penalty can put to end to a crime, nor can it help promote social security; but instead it is just a form of inhumane act which is immortal and it promotes violence and risks the innocent lives. The proponents of this argument believe that death penalty is morally right and fair because when one life is taken, one life must be paid in return. This is a complete mistake in mortality. The fact is that every form of killing, even through death penalty, is obviously wrong because it does not make us moral by killing a killer. The question most people ask is that if the first killing is wrong then why do we allow the second killing? The former U.S president Jimmy Carter also stated that the process of death penalty is broken and cannot be repaired and now it should be the time to seek a better way and more moral substitution (Carter,2012a). In addition death penalty is not only immoral...
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... The Disadvantages of Death Penalty * Though there are scientific methods available to investigate the crime, nothing is guaranteed. You cannot remove the chances of punishing innocents completely. * The cost involved on the death penalty prosecution is greater than the expenses occurred in the life imprisonment of the accused. The appeals against such capital punishments take too long to decide, and often it takes years to decide the fate of the death penalty. All these things make the death penalty an expensive option for the governments who spend millions of the dollars of the taxpayer money on death penalty prosecutions. * It is reported that some of the jury members are not completely impartial as they decide the penalty on racial or religious basis. * Some of the accused are mentally ill, and it is ethically wrong to put mentally ill patients to the death. * In most cases people who can afford to hire the expensive lawyers often survived from such kind of capital punishment. People who are poor, and cannot afford to get a quality legal assistance becomes the victim of this penalty. * Some of the experts believe that life prison is a more effective punishment to control crimes as compared to the death penalty. The countries where the death penalty is banned have less capital crime rate as compared to those countries where the death penalty is practiced. THREE FACTS The Philippines Had The World’s Second-largest Death Row Population Among Democracies ...
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...Death Penalty: Terminating the Death Penalty in the United States The Unites States of America is one of the few remaining countries to keep intact the most severe of criminal sanctions, the death penalty, even though it has not been proven to be effective, but rather the opposite. It is a truism. Their are many and more reasons to why this drastic criminal sanction should be abolished. Under definition of law, execution is premeditated murder in the first degree. The death penalty is unjust and we, the people, should have moved past our ancestors barbaric ways. To create a peaceful and just world even for the worst that humanity may offer. This criminal sanction also has a cost, in more ways then one. It is very expensive to preform physically but also has the ability to take a mental toll to those involved, it’s a costly situation. The worst of situations is those convicted and put of death row, only later to be found innocent of all charges. The lucky ones proved innocent before their scheduled execution but some are not half as lucky until they have reached their after life. The overall cost of executions have different ways to take a toll on someone. It’s the financial cost of carrying out the death penalty. The cost of an execution is much higher then the cost of life in prison. If sentenced to death, their are many financial costs that need be taken care of such as the lawyers, the medications for the actual execution, the trials to be tried, etc. Since 1978, in...
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...Arguments and reasons to be against the death penalty Argument two: The death penalty is morally wrong by having the death penalty we are effectively sinking to the same level as those we are trying to punish. While people disagree on ethics and moral codes most people agree that killing is fundamentally wrong. Even if killing people would have better consequences it still morally the wrong thing to do. Mercy is objectively a good thing and retribution isn't. This doesn't mean that we should let violent criminals on the streets but means that we needn't sink to there level and kill them just like they killed the victims. Argument three: Violence begets more violence One of the best arguments for the death penalty is that if we really want to promote a nonviolent society our legal system needs to set the example. If we want people to be less violent than we need our judicial system to be nonviolent. If we as a society are saying killing people is an acceptable method of dealing with a problem than other people will interpret that as a green light to use killing to fix their problems. The only real way to stop violence is to promote the sanctity of life and send a clear message to society that killing isn't okay under any circumstances and it's impossible to do that while the state itself is killing people. Argument four: The death penalty carries with it the risk of executing innocent men Over the years several people have been killed by the state for crimes they did...
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...punishment or the death penalty is the execution of a person of the state as punishment for a crime. Capital punishment is a difficult issue and there are many different opinions as there are people. Supporters of the death penalty believe that in some instances, people who take another human life deserve to forfeit their own lives. Many supporters also believe that the threat of death discourages crime. I am oppose to the death penalty for many reasons. Criminals need to live with their consequences for the rest of their life’s, not die for them. He or she will never have to look in the mirror and regret he/she’s horrible crime. Life in prison without parole is the best alternative for the death penalty. Criminals should have to face what they committed everyday of their life; they need a punishment to fit their crime. Death is just an easy escape for the criminal. If we kill the killers we are only becoming them. When turning on the television, radio, or simply opening the local newspaper, one is bombarded with news of arrests, murders, homicides, serial killers, and other such tragedies. Killers kill innocent people, there is no question about that, but does that give us the right to kill these killers? I do not think so. I believe that there is a risk of executing mistakenly convicted people. One could be spending and ending his life incaptivity for simply walking down the wrong street on the wrong day. It's...
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...(ProQuest Staff) The Death Penalty, “is the process by which convicted criminals are executed by a governing authority” (Issist and Newton). And “It violated the eighth amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment” (ProQuest Staff). The death penalty should be abolished because it is a violation of the Eighth Amendment and often results in the deaths of innocent citizens. The death penalty should be abolished because it violates the 8th amendment. To begin, the death penalty is cruel and unusual and should not be allowed, but only “Eighteen states have abolished the death penalty” (Issitt and Newton). Warner, committed a murder and was given a botched execution. He was, “In a renovated death chamber, the lethal cocktail began flowing into the veins of...
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...tooth; just as he has injured a man, so it shall be inflicted on him..” a quote from the Bible, Leviticus 24:20. It is kind of ironic how people would argue that the death penalty is going against the the Bible’s moral code of “Thou Shalt Not Commit Murder,” one of the the Ten Commandments in the Bible, when the Bible also encourages justice for those who has been done wrong. The death penalty is a form of punishment against criminals who committed a crime so wrong, the only way of justice would be sentenced to death. Many would argue that this form of punishment is morally wrong. It is true that execution may be considered as a form of murder too, but the intentions of the execution is not as...
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...January 26th, 2014 Since capital punishment is the legal process in which the state puts to death a person that commits a certain type of crime, the death penalty should deter criminals from committing violent crimes. “The executions of people who have been found guilty of offenses believe that some crimes, especially murder, are so serious and so destructive to society that the perpetrators deserve the most severe punishment” (Capital Punishment 2014). In the article, Capital Punishment, the issues focused on the moral argument that killing is wrong, the mental capacity of people facing the death penalty, and the fairness of the death penalty in which wrongful executions of innocent people, and the lack of uniformity in applying capital punishment. “Advances in technology, such as new and improved methods of DNA testing and other laboratory procedures, have shown that the justice system can make mistakes” (Capital Punishment 2014). An opponent of capital punishment argues that this type of punishment discriminates against minorities and the poor, encourages a culture of violence, and that it violates human rights. On the other hand, an advocate of capital punishment argues that it deters crime. The unstated premise in the article is that killing is always wrong. If killing is always wrong, then the death penalty is wrong. Killing is always wrong. Therefore, the death penalty is wrong. “Opponents of capital punishment argue that there are no circumstances under which taking...
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...is Murder. It is wrong in so many ways. Capital punishment is when a person is sentenced to death because of a crime. It has been around for years. It has always been a controversial thing. In the novel A Lesson before Dying by Ernest Gaines, the main character, Jefferson, is sentenced to death after being accused of murdering a store owner, but in reality he is innocent. Capital punishment should be abolished because it is unconstitutional, it sends out the wrong message, and it is a waste of money. Capitol punishment is unconstitutional. The death penalty violates an amendment in the U.S constitution. In the article should the death penalty be banned as a form of punishment by Joe Messerli, he states “The 8th amendment of the U.S constitution prevents the use of “cruel and unusual punishment”.(Messerli) Many would interpret the death penalty as a violating this restriction”. This evidence shows how the death penalty is unconstitutional. The death penalty really does violate the 8th amendment. It is like a mother telling her kid that they are not allowed to eat candy at night, while she is eating candy at night. It is an ironic thing. Another thing Messerli states in his article is “It’s barbaric to allow state-sanctioned murder before a crowd of people”. (Messerli)This statement is very true, capital punishment makes the United States seem barbaric. Capital punishment goes against the constitution and makes the U.S seem barbaric, also it sends out the wrong message. Aside...
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...Marc HIS 202 Powley Capital Punishment The death penalty is viewed one of two ways. Either you oppose it or you agree with it. Over the years there have been studies done to try and justify or discredit the actions surrounding the death penalty. Whether you agree or disprove the punishment doesn’t make it right or wrong. The process of capital punishment has been around a very long time. Through the years societies have put their own twists and added their personal variations to the concept. While the death penalty will never lose its ability to start a great debate, who is right and who is wrong? One thing stand the same, whichever side you’re on, you picked that side for a reason and that’s what you believe in, no matter what anyone else says. Well the church is the same way, they have a viewpoint and have taken a stand as well. During this paper we examine the ideas and thoughts of the church as a whole, and how they feel about the death penalty and how it is used in our society. Throughout history, one of the most influential institutions in society has been the church. No matter the demographic location, the religious influence can been seen in almost every aspect of the culture in that area. One reason why religion is so influential is that religion gives a moral foundation for behaviors. Morals are believed to be from a higher power, mainly from God. So when one debates the issues dealing with behaviors, and the laws that govern those behaviors, religion ends...
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...DEATH PENALTY Is the death penalty really the best way to deal with things? The death penalty has a lot of negatives to it like: costs money, it doesn’t decrease actual crime, it is just another word for revenge, and people can turn out to be wrongfully convicted. Also, it would be easy to just use the death penalty; the criminals would kind of be getting out of the punishment. Time is a more affective and a better solution when dealing with crime. The death penalty costs money on the states and the tax payers, in fact it costs around two million per case. That much money just to kill someone, is it even worth the price? The death penalty actually costs more than keeping prisoners locked up. The cost of the death penalty is just too much to put on the tax payers, they pay enough already. You would think that if the crime committers knew about that death penalty, that they would actually stop doing the crime. In all actuality, the death penalty has not shown any decrease in crime or murder rates. Putting the law up, really won’t change much at all, you can’t stop the criminals from doing what they want to do. "Retribution is just another word for revenge, and the desire for revenge is one of the lowest human emotions…” Even if you try to get rid of the evil, purposely killing is actually an evil-like action. Even if they were in the wrong as well, “two wrongs do not make a right.” The quote, “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,” is just another word for revenge. Revenge...
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