...April 24, 2011 The Death Penalty Should Be Mandatory For People That Kill Other People The death penalty is the punishment to a person that does a capital crime or capital offence. This is a topic that has been discussed among many societies across the country. The judicial system uses the death penalty to dissuade people from horrible crimes. The death penalty should be mandatory for people that kill people because it gives a person to revenges his or her death legally and it makes society feels safe. This is why the death penalty should be mandatory for people who kill other people. People go through a time in their life when they have a loved one murdered in a violent crime. It is not fair for a person to have a friend or family member killed by another person and they get away with it. This is why people who kill other people should get the death penalty. Even though death penalty trials are long, it will give the person some closure in their life knowing that the killer of their loved one is also dead and will never hurt anyone ever again. This is just a way for people to get revenge on another person who killed their loved one legally. Having the death penalty mandatory for people who kill other people makes others in societies feel safe. People would die to a day to day basis if the death penalty wasn’t mandatory for those who kill other people. Any giving day a person can get murdered for whatever reason. With the death penalty in effect, it slows...
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...Introduction If one is big enough to do the crime, then he should be indeed big enough to take the punishment that follows. “Capital punishment, the death penalty, or execution is the sentence of death upon a person by the state as a punishment for a crime.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment) Basically Capital Punishment is the country’s major punishment, for what they consider to be the most major crimes. It is a subject of active disagreement and controversy in various countries and positions in the argument can vary with a single switch in political hierarchy. To count there are about fifty eight countries that still recognizes Capital Punishment. Surprisingly most of the European and Asian Countries are the ones prohibit the use of Capital Punishment. And oddly even though most of the world physical land masses rebukes Capital Punishment, most of the world’s population still resides in countries that still strongly agree with the use of Capital Punishment. But here in The Bahamas, our situation is quite a special one. We are a free independent country, our laws say that we recognizes the use of Capital Punishment in the country, it obvious that a country cries for it, but the dilemma is that it is not being carried out. But the question raised is why? What is the hold up, and how do the Bahamian people feel about the whole situation? Chapter 1 “Capital Punishment in the Bahamas; Gone but not forgotten” Capital Punishment in The Bahamas has been...
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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...
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...Is the death Penalty is a Fair Punishment Capital Punishment is Justifiable Killing Genine Jackson Philosophy 210 August 21, 2013 Dr. N Hooper-Simanaga THE DEATH PENALTY IS AFAIR PUNISHMENT CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IS JUSTIFIABLE KILLING Do believe in and eye for an eye, should a person should be giving a life sentence for selling drugs, is there a big different between giving a person life in prison without the possibility of parole, or the death sentence? Do you think a person should be killed for killing one person, if killing is wrong how can execution be right? Do you think it is cheaper to keep a man in prison for forty years or to be executed? Do you think the death penalty is a fair punishment, is capital punishment justifiable killing? What would you do if you a got a phone call on the night before Thanksgiving: (You) Hello, (Caller) I need you to come to Rainbow South Apartment on Columbus Drive NOW!!!!!! (You) What’s going on; I am trying to cook, (Caller) Don’t ask me any question right now, I just need you to get here now! Then you notice that the caller voice did not sound right, so with any more hesitation you get in your car and go to Rainbow South Apartments. Not knowing where in the complex to go you drive in and on instinct you make a right turn and Oh my God you see all these police light and what appears to be three bodies on the ground. Now you start to get nervous because you do not see the person who call you in the...
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...Many people are for it and many are against it. Our very own Supreme Court still debate on this topic. If properly used right, capital punishment is good for society because it is a deterrence against future crimes and protect the rights of victims of malicious murders, capital punishment is a legal and an appropriate measure in the United States legal system. Capital punishment was reestablished in 1976 by the Supreme Court as an appropriate measure for murder cases. Since then, many murderers have been convicted and put to death for their awful crimes. With each execution of a murderer, society is a safer place. When a human makes the ultimate decision to commit a crime of murder, rape, child rape, and torture, would a life in prison term be fair. Prison's are for much less acts of crime and people who do the acts against fellow humans should be punished by capital punishment. Prisons and jails are used as a deterrent so that people in today’s' society will not perform an act against another human. If they do, they know the repercussions of the acts they are performing. Some people are clearly not mentally capable of knowing the difference between right and wrong and they are put into hospitals because of their sickness. The majority of society know the difference of right and wrong. Another form of a deterrent that our county has is the speed limits. Without having speed limits, people would be driving at very high speeds with no care for their life or others. The...
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...Capital Punishment or as some people refer to it, the death penalty, is the legal process in which an accused is sentenced to death for their crimes. There is a wide range opinions regarding the death penalty and whether it is a cruel and unusual punishment or if justice is better served by means of execution. Currently the total population of state and federal death row is at 3,170 inmates. It has been greatly debated for years whether the death penalty should be enforced. In this paper I will discuss my reasoning as to why I feel the death penalty should be eliminated. Some have argued that capital punishment is a form of cruel and unusual treatment which makes it unacceptable due to the pain and suffering that it causes the condemned individual. An execution is a violent spectacle of official homicide which endorses killing to solve social problems. Governments worldwide have often attempted to justify their lethal fury by insisting that the benefits that these executions would bring to the rest of societies safety. People would argue that a person accused of taking another person’s life should suffer the same pain that they caused not only the deceased but also their family. I would say that it would be reasonable for a person to feel that way but not only does the deceased’s individual’s family have to suffer for the loss but, the accused’s family members must watch their loved one be executed. Just because we sentence someone to death it does not mean that it will bring...
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...“Death Penalty” Furman was a poor black man living in Georgia when he broke into William Joseph Micke, Jr’s house, Mr. Micke went downstairs to investigate and saw William Furman in his house with a gun. Furman began to flee the house but tripped in the process and fired the gun accidently shooting Mr. Micke in the chest and killing him instantly. Furman was later found by the police still carrying the gun and arrested for murder. This case is known as Furman v. Georgia and was taken to the Supreme Court on the fact that the death penalty in Georgia violated the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. This is a landmark case because “The significance of Furman v. Georgia is that this case was the first case that was ruled violating the Eighth amendment and that it halted every man on death row in the United States” (study). But before the case reached the Supreme Court the case went on trial September 20, 1968 where Furman pleaded mentally ill and insane, the court rejected his plea and found him guilty of murder. Then, Furman appealed his conviction and sentence, based on the death penalty in Georgia violating the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution . The Eighth Amendment says the federal government may not use "cruel and unusual punishments” (Henson). The case was later tried in the Supreme Court January 17, 1972. The justices who won majority and reversed the case were William J. Brennan, Jr., William O. Douglas, Thurgood Marshall, Potter...
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...Why Capital Punishment Should Be Supported Marven Gee CJA/204 April 11, 2011 Royce Decker Abstract This paper speaks about capital punishment and why I feel that capital punishment should be supported. In the Bible, there are scriptures quoted by God and his son Jesus in reference to supporting the death penalty. If the God we serve is not opposed to taking the life of a person that has committed a crime of murder, then we as a people should not be opposed to the death penalty. Many people are opposed to capital punishment for various reasons. The main reason many people are opposed to capital punishment has to do with biblical issues. I support capital punishment because of what bible scriptures say and I honestly believe that god does not have a problem with a criminals life being taken because of a severe crime the criminal committed. All throughout the bible, many of God’s chosen leaders killed many kings, tribes, and soldiers that opposed the people of Israel. Moses, Josuha, Saul, David, Paul, and Sampson were some of God’s greatest men to ever lead his people and yet they killed many men that opposed God. In the bible, it states “an eye for an eye” which means that what you do to a person, should be done to you. So if a person commits a crime of murder, then their life should be taken from them. During biblical times, there were many ways a person was put to death for wrong doing and one of...
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...The Use of the Death Penalty A Paper Presented by the National Policy Committee to The American Society of Criminology National Policy Committee James Austin, Chair Kitty Calavita Roland Chilton Jeffrey Fagan Calvin C. Johnson Delores Jones-Brown Mark Moore Ira Schwartz Linda Teplin Franklin Zimring November 2001 The findings and opinions contained herein are those of the National Policy Committee and do not necessarily reflect the official position or policies of the American Society of Criminology. Ronald Weitzer, Professor of Sociology, Dana Coleman, Research Assistant, and Sarah Benatar, Graduate Research Assistant at the Institute on Crime, Justice, and Corrections at George Washington University provided substantial assistance in the preparation of this document. Introduction Capital punishment is among the most hotly debated issues in American politics. Passions run high for both those who want the death penalty abolished and those who seek to preserve or expand its use. What follows is a summary of key issues in the death penalty debate, research findings on the application of capital punishment, and a discussion of policy considerations. The American Society of Criminology (ASC) is greatly concerned with the death penalty and its application in the United States. This year, ASC President Ronald Huff and the ASC Executive Board authorized the ASC’s National Policy Committee (NPC) to develop a policy paper that would focus on...
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...What is death penalty? Death penalty is a form of punishment that involves the act of revenge to those people that commit a serious crime. Originally, death penalty viewed as an action that makes the criminal to pay the price to what they committed at the past. Death penalty is an irreversible form of punishment (Debate.org, 2013). It usually implement on person who commit on espionage, murder, or dealing drug crime. In the previous time, the methods to execute death penalty are very terror and cruel compare to now. This is because during past, death penalty normally does not see as the punishment but must be executed to ensure person was executed had to be painful (wisegeek, n.d.) Some of the common means of execution included crucifixion, boiling alive and etc. Until today, death penalty had been executed in more humane way. For example, electric chair, death by hanging or injection that can reduce the time of suffering for criminal. Recently, most of the country has executed death penalty as a form of punishment. The country with the most population among the world which is United State, China, India and Indonesia still practiced capital punishment. However, execution of death penalty is a very controversy form of punishment among the world. Many people started arguing whether the execution of death penalty is wrong since a long time ago. Although execution of death penalty is considered mandatory to deter criminal activity, there is several strong reason that death penalty...
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...Punishment: Execution by the State 12/8/2011 History of the Death Penalty The first death penalty laws date back to the Eighteenth Century B.C. The death penalty was punishable for 25 different crimes. The death penalty also dates back to the Fourteenth Century when it was punishable for any kind of crimes. In the Fifth Century, death sentences were administered by ways such as drowning, beating to death, burning alive or even crucifixion and in the Tenth Century A.D. hangings became the main method of execution. During the Sixteenth Century, under the power of Henry VIII, 72,000 people were executed by boiling, hanging, beheading, and boiling. People were executed if they had failed to report a crime or committed treason. During the 1700s, even small crimes were punished by death. These crimes included stealing or even cutting down a tree. A total of 222 crimes were punishable by death (“Part I: History of the Death Penalty”). Capital punishment in America was heavily influenced by Britain. When settlers came to the new world, they brought the form of capital punishment with them. Captain George Kendall was the first recorded execution in the United States for being accused of being a spy for Spain. This occurred in 1608, while in 1612 the Divine, Moral and Martial Laws were created, allowing capital punishment to be enforced for the smallest of crimes such as trading with Indians. The death penalty varied from colony to colony. The New York colony followed the Duke...
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...and Against the Death Penalty from http://deathpenaltyinfo.msu.edu/ ARGUMENT 1 DETERRENCE The death penalty prevents future murders. Society has always used punishment to discourage would-be criminals from unlawful action. Since society has the highest interest in preventing murder, it should use the strongest punishment available to deter murder, and that is the death penalty. If murderers are sentenced to death and executed, potential murderers will think twice before killing for fear of losing their own life. For years, criminologists analyzed murder rates to see if they fluctuated with the likelihood of convicted murderers being executed, but the results were inconclusive. Then in 1973 Isaac Ehrlich employed a new kind of analysis which produced results showing that for every inmate who was executed, 7 lives were spared because others were deterred from committing murder. Similar results have been produced by disciples of Ehrlich in follow-up studies. Moreover, even if some studies regarding deterrence are inconclusive, that is only because the death penalty is rarely used and takes years before an execution is actually carried out. Punishments which are swift and sure are the best deterrent. The fact that some states or countries which do not use the death penalty have lower murder rates than jurisdictions which do is not evidence of the failure of deterrence. States with high murder rates would have even higher rates if they did not use the death penalty. Ernest van den...
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...Against the Death Penalty from http://deathpenaltyinfo.msu.edu/ ARGUMENT 1 DETERRENCE The death penalty prevents future murders. Society has always used punishment to discourage would-be criminals from unlawful action. Since society has the highest interest in preventing murder, it should use the strongest punishment available to deter murder, and that is the death penalty. If murderers are sentenced to death and executed, potential murderers will think twice before killing for fear of losing their own life. For years, criminologists analyzed murder rates to see if they fluctuated with the likelihood of convicted murderers being executed, but the results were inconclusive. Then in 1973 Isaac Ehrlich employed a new kind of analysis which produced results showing that for every inmate who was executed, 7 lives were spared because others were deterred from committing murder. Similar results have been produced by disciples of Ehrlich in follow-up studies. Moreover, even if some studies regarding deterrence are inconclusive, that is only because the death penalty is rarely used and takes years before an execution is actually carried out. Punishments which are swift and sure are the best deterrent. The fact that some states or countries which do not use the death penalty have lower murder rates than jurisdictions which do is not evidence of the failure of deterrence. States with high murder rates would have even higher rates if they did not use the death penalty. Ernest...
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...fiscal effect on society. Deterrence Deterrence is the act of preventing a particular act or behavior from happening. In the criminal justice system deterrence is used to prevent an individual from committing a future crime. Punishment can be an effective deterrence when an individual is sent to jail. Prison is a form of punishment. Prison is a temporary solution while the offender is incarcerated. The highest form of punishment in the criminal justice system is capital punishment. The death penalty is used to deter people from committing crimes. Capital punishment is defined as a form of putting one to death because of a crime a person has committed. The seriousness of the crime determines the punishment. In a mitigating circumstance a sentence will be lighter considering factors of an offender played a minor or passive role in the offense or participated under circumstances of coercion or duress (Gaines & Miller, 2008). Mitigating offenses prevents defenders from receiving the death penalty. An aggravating circumstance is a harsher sentence with factors of if the offense involved injury or...
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...Reasons for Socrates to Resist the Death Penalty: Name: Course: Date: Introduction: Socrates was a well renowned Athenian philosopher many years before his trial. He is actually considered a great founder in western philosophy. He was a very distinctive and typical individual with extraordinary teachings. It is believed that his teachings were very different from those of other philosophers in Greece since his ideas differed with the rightful societal beliefs. This resulted to hatred from the people. According to him, a useless life is one that is not examined. He put a lot of emphasis on the obedience of the state likening it to the obedience a son would have for his father. He was common for taking children through lectures of coming up with arguments to justify the reason for beating his father. Socrates was later accused of corrupting youth groups and godlessness. He was then convicted to death by taking poison which he obeyed as a way of following his teaching on obedience to the law. If Confucius would have believed in a life after death, he would probably have agreed with Socrates to have the law obeyed and kill himself. Socrates, in his day of execution explains that soul is the main form of an individual. Soul does not die and is eternal and does not change. Just the same way it brings life, so must it not die despite the death of the body. Soul is therefore termed as immortal. He feels that dying does not destroy who he really is since in real sense, he will not be dead...
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