Should The United States Abolish The Death Penalty?

The death penalty is government sanctioned punishment by death. Crimes subject to capital punishment are capital crimes. Thirty-six countries actively practice the death penalty, including the United States. However, 103 countries have abolished capital punishment and instead jail serious criminals for life. Capital punishment is the only fitting punishment for people who have done the ultimate wrong, it saves space at federal prisons, and it gives closure to families of victims, or victims of these crimes.

Elliot Spitzer states, “Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don 't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.” Although the Death Penalty is meant to kill the ones that have murdered, many innocent people have been executed due to the ignorance of facts during trial. Since this has come to me and my partner’s attention, we are resolved that The United States should change its penal code to abolish the death penalty. The Death Penalty is execution following someone’s conviction of murder or any other serious crime. Abolish is to end the observance or effect of. The Penal Code is a set of criminal laws of a particular country, society, etc. Our courts are not steady, which is why we need to abolish the death penalty.

Good afternoon Madam chairperson and my fellow students. The topic for our debate is “That Australia Should Reintroduce or Legalise the Death Penalty.” We the negative team, do not believe we should reintroduce the death penalty.

With all the jails in the United States being overcrowded with convicts with serious crimes, and doing life without parole. I start to wonder what the impact would be if the United States allowed the death penalty to be used in all fifty states?

Across America there are 27 different states that have the death penalty. there are reasons that the death penalty should be used for example when someone kills other people or a group of people they should be put in the court with the death penalty to be an option.

While some states chose to reinstate capital punishment, they reformed to limit how harsh the death penalty was and the terms in which it is given. “Pennsylvania adopted a law in 1794 to distinguish between first- and second-degree murder and limited the death penalty to murders committed with premeditation or in the course of carrying out another felony (first-degree murder). In 1846, Louisiana abolished the mandatory death penalty and authorized the option of sentencing a capital offender to life imprisonment rather than to death, a reform universally adopted in the U.S. during the following century.” (Capital Punishment.) The most common general offenses that result in capital punishment are things such as espionage, treason, and various forms of murder.

According to Amnesty International, “today over two-thirds of the world’s nations have ended capital punishment in law and practice”. However capital punishment remains a part of the criminal justice system. One of many recent surveys among law officers in North Carolina find the majority of law enforcement supports the death penalty, while simultaneously acknowledging a flawed system that has convicted and executed innocent people in some cases. Given the slightest possibility of executing an innocent person, do you think America should follow the lead of some other countries that are completely abolishing capital punishment? Some say the threat of capital punishment can deter future violent crimes. Some theories point to the idea that

The death penalty is a capital punishment that is put into effect for major crimes. The death penalty is a very controversial topic in the United States and throughout the world. There was a time period were the death penalty was banned for about four years in 1972-1976. Many feel that the death penalty is justice because it is retribution toward criminals who have committed heinous crimes. However the death penalty is inhumane and should be abolished in the United States.

Throughout our nation’s history, various forms of executions (such as hanging, electrocution, crucifixion, drowning, beatings, stoning, lethal injections, along with many other methods) have taken place as punishments for those who have committed crime. Our nation should stop and ask ourselves, what is capital punishment? Capital punishment is simply defined as one person taking the life of another. It is deliberate manslaughter and first degree murder. The death of one human being by another is an act so profound that one cannot simply flip a switch, blink an eye, and have it all be over. The tragedy of a loss of life is as terrible as sanctioned killing is. There are many reasons why punishment

The death penalty that is still in effect today in America, stems back to before the United States gained freedom from Britain. The formation of the death penalty as a punishment was taken by the colonists from the British. It has been under constant pressure from abolitionists since the day that it was established as a punishment. However, it was not until the nineteenth century when abolitionist movements began to influence the states on the issue of the death penalty to see the form of punishment abolished. Slowly states began to change the laws on the death penalty and some even stopped using the death penalty as a punishment option. These states have now lost an element of deterrence in which is the only way to halt some crimes from being committed. It also does not serve justice now that a innocent life can be taken while the murder continues to live. The United States death penalty is a benefit to America’s society because it deters capital offense, justice is upheld constitutionally, and it lessens the cost to house inmates.

Therefore, on behalf of these innocent people who have faced and become friends with hell daily in solitary on death row. For the sake of those who have developed death row syndrome while waiting for a solution from some good samaritan for a crime they never commit. In the good name of justice for those who were innocent nevertheless executed at the hands of their trusted government whom will never be able to give these innocent lives back; or pay for the lost years with loved ones. When considering those who spent years on death row whose life will never be the same with a fatal legacy called death row phenomenon. This illness will affect their family greatly because they have lost trust in humanity, hope, and contact with any social experiences for too many years.

Should capital punishment be abolished in America or is it a reasonable form of punishment for certain criminals? That’s the question that has been asked for the past 40 years and it is a sensitive topic on the count of people’s lives being at stake. It is a reasonable debate though, because there are many people that think it is morally wrong and should not be practiced, but then there are others that believe in capital punishment and think it should stay in place. Is America going to totally abolish the death penalty?

Should capital punishment/ death penalty be abolished in the United States? Many feel that the death penalty is immoral and question whether the state and federal government deserve the right to kill those whom it has imprisoned. On the other hand, those opposed feel that by not acting upon the death penalty communities would plunge in anarchy and that by having the death penalty it honors human dignity by treating the defendant as a free moral actor able to control his/her own destiny for good or for ill. However, others believe it serves as a deterrent for citizens not to commit crimes, in fear of death. While others argue that there is no scientific evidence that supports this claim, that states that abolished the death penalty showed no significant change in crime or murder rate. States that have the death penalty did not have lower crime or murder rates. Therefore, the death penalty does not act as a deterrent. Although, abolitionist think killing the person who has killed someone close to you is simply to continue the cycle of violence, which ultimately destroys the avenger as well as the offender. Retribution is not really a rational response to a critical situation and it contaminates the otherwise good will which any human being needs to progress in love and understanding. In contrast, the opposition believes that society

The death penalty has been given as a form of punishment to people who have been accused of heinous crimes. Due to the justice system being flawed, many people have been exonerated

There are thirty-one states within the United States that has the death penalty (Jurisdictions with no recent executions, 2017). Although thirty-one states have a death penalty, executions are rare or non-existing in most states (Jurisdictions with no recent executions, 2015). In 2015, only six states carried out executions (Jurisdictions with no recent executions, 2015). The death penalty has been a topic people argued over since it was first established. Many arguments have been made stating the positive impact from the death penalty, but there has also been arguments made against it. One of the arguments that has been made against the death penalty is the fear that an innocent person may be executed. This argument is one of the reasons