Death Penalty California

The California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation, give a thorough background to the death penalty. The CDCR confirm that the introducing of the death penalty here in California, began due to the Criminal Practices Act of 1851 along with the penal code that was reinstated the fourteenth of February, 1872. According to the CDCR, there are two maximum facilities who held executions in California, being in San Quentin and Folsom. The first ever execution was held on the third of March, 1893 in San Quentin maximum facility. Folsom following their first on the thirteenth of December. 1895. Throughout the years, over 215 inmates in San Quentin and 92 in Folsom were executed, none being documented correctly. Thus, leading into the California

As Cass R states… “Capital punishment may be morally required, not for retributive reasons, but rather to prevent the taking of innocent lives”. Death penalty is one of those extreme punishments that would create fear in the mind of any person. If murderers are sentenced to death and executed, potential murderers will think twice before killing for fear of losing their own life.

for and 52.8% against repealing the law. As a result, California’s death penalty system has become backlogged and many offenders continue to wither away on death row. Something to bear in mind is the fact that just because a state has a capital punishment law on the books, doesn’t necessarily mean that the condemned will be executed soon after conviction. As already discussed, multiple trials, appeals, and petitions will delay the process, which will likely result in years, sometimes decades before the convicted is ever executed, if at all. Sometimes an offender dies on death row before he ever receives an execution date.

Despite the level of irritation, people genuinely perceive killing another person as an evil act. According to 18 U.S. Code § 1111 - Murder, it states “Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being, or a fetus, with malice aforethought (a). Whoever is guilty of murder in the first degree shall be punished by death or by imprisonment for life” (b). Therefore, killing a person is not just about the illegality, but also the judicial punishments by law. There are several types of murder in the United States, such as: first degree murder, second degree murder, felony murder and aggravating circumstances. In the news article “Serial killer is denied parole again”, Hamilton introduces Juan Corona’s first degree murder case who has murdered 25 farm labors in the year 1971, and is currently he still serving a life sentence in the Corcoran State Prison, California. At the same time, the reporter highlights that The State Board of Parole has rejected Corona’s 8th parole request on November 9, 2016. In short, people should appreciate laws, understand crime, and acknowledge the importance of theories such as differential association theory because they aid the human society to solve social problems and accelerate public safety.

In addition, putting someone in jail for life who murdered multiple people is unjust as he/she gets more than he/she ever gave his/her victims before they were murdered by the offending, as now he/she gets three meals a day and a place to rest their head until the day they die, something that a victim’s family may not be able to afford now depending on the family’s economic situation, including whether or not the victim was their main source of income (Carmical, Casey. "Capital Punishment Is Morally Justified."). In addition it provides a better sense of closure to the family of the departed, as now they know that the criminal has been punished to the full extent of the law (Carmical, Casey. "Capital Punishment Is Morally Justified."). In addition, taxpayer dollars from the victim’s family could go indirectly to keeping the murderer alive, and what sort of justice allows a victim’s family pay to keep

The use of the death penalty has been known to help to give closure to the families of the victim and the killer to help ease their

The state of California is currently suffering from a state deficit so great it would seem wise to restructure the death penalty as it stands now rather than cut education programs and jobs. California is a state which supports capital punishment; it is also a state that very rarely executes it death row inmates. In the last several years, California’s public educations system has taken on enormous budget cuts due to the state revenue crisis. As political leaders gather in the senate and review the gravity of the state’s situation, political leaders should examine how restructuring the death penalty and implementing life without parole would be beneficial for the state and those residing within the state itself. Utilizing the death penalty

What are we mad about electricity rates, gasoline prices, traffic congestion and crowded schools? We're missing the point here. What were missing here is some good, old and honest anger about an issue that has been a concern for decades – California's Death Penalty. The Death Penalty has long been a problem in California from costs, deterrence, overcrowded prisons, execution of the innocent and so on. Then if were having all these problems why should we continue using this system?

Many families want to see the criminal who killed or raped their family members suffer. They don't want to live life knowing its possible for them to do that to someone else. The goverment believes in certain situations that them using the death penalty will allow others to see what could happen to them if they commit that same crime. If the criminal can kill someone, then they will most likely kill someone else and it can be prevented. In today's world there is many who kill, rape, and do serious crimes who do not get the punishment they deserve. Of course not in all cases is execution the way to go, but in certain cases many would have to agree it could be neccessary.

“Enjoy life today, yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come,” said an unknown author. The death penalty faces many pros and cons as to why it should be legal and illegal. Capital punishment is another name for the death penalty. So many people are clueless as to what the death penalty even is or what it does. The death penalty is the punishment of execution, administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime. Crimes to be punished by death differs from every state and country. Usually the death penalty comes to action when the capital crime is murder or rape; capital offense usually means bail will not be an option. Even though the death penalty gives closure to the victim’s families who have suffered so much, the death penalty

     What are we mad about electricity rates, gasoline prices, traffic congestion and crowded schools? We’re missing the point here. What were missing here is some good, old and honest anger about an issue that has been a concern for decades – California’s Death Penalty. The Death Penalty has long been a problem in California from costs, deterrence, overcrowded prisons, execution of the innocent and so on. Then if were having all these problems why should we continue using this system?

Thousands of people will attack the death penalty. They will give emotional speeches about the one innocent man or woman who might accidentally get an execution sentence. However, all of these people are forgetting one crucial element. They are forgetting the thousands of victims who die every year by the hands of heartless murderers. There are more murderers out there than people who are wrongly convicted, and that is what we must remember.

Crime in America is something that has been around for many decades. While a large number of crimes are considered minor, many more result in the serious injury or death of another human being. “When we think about crimes, we … normally focus on inherently wrongful acts that harm or threaten to harm persons or property” (Bibas 22). The death penalty, also called capital punishment, has been used as a means of punishing the most violent of criminals in an attempt to prevent others from committing similar crimes. Over the centuries, the methods used to conduct these executions have evolved and changed due to effectiveness and public opinion.

In our understandable desire to be fair and to protect the rights of offenders in our criminal justice system, let us never ignore or minimize the rights of their victims. The death penalty is a necessary tool that reaffirms the sanctity of human life while assuring that convicted killers will never again prey upon others.

The death penalty should be enforced because it is a deterrent for future criminals and a means for a victim’s family to obtain justice.