Should The United States Allowed The Death Penalty?

The legitimacy of the use of capital punishment has been tarnished by its widespread misuse , which has clouded our judgment regarding the justifiability of the death penalty as a punitive measure. However, the problems with capital punishment, such as the “potential error, irreversibility, arbitrariness and racial skew" , are not a basis for its abolition, as the world of homicide suffer from these problems more acutely. To tackle this question, one must disregard the currently blemished universal status quo and purely assess the advantages and disadvantages of the death penalty as a punitive measure. Through unprejudiced examination of the death penalty and its consequential impacts, it is evident that it is a punishment that effectively serves its retributive, denunciatory, deterrent, and incapacitative goals.

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.

The death penalty, or capital punishment, has been around as early as the Seventh Century B.C. and is still used in many countries today, including the United States. There are many arguments stating capital punishment should be abolished for many reasons, including that capital punishment violates the Bill of Rights, and life in prison is a more effective deterrent than capital punishment; there are also counter-arguments, saying that capital punishment should not be abolished for reasons such as capital punishment achieves justice for those who have been wronged and that it brings a sense of closure to families.

I would like about whether or not the United States should abolish the death penalty. The United States should not abolish this because those who commit a capital felony which is punishable by imprisonment or death, should serve a capital punishment which is the death penalty. Many believe that certain crimes such as rape and murder should punishable by the death penalty. Although many also see it as inhumane, many also view murder and rape as inhumane. One can view this as part of Hammburi’s Code law that states “An eye for an eye.” Capital punishment has ben around for thousands of years; beginning even before the ancient Greeks and Romans. At that time, there were many different ways to carry out capital punishment such as, beheading, stoning and electrocution (PBS).

In 1984, former NFL player Kermit Alexander lost his mother, sister and two nephews due to a gang related shooting on the wrong family. The Alexander's family was not supposed to be targeted, it was a miss communication between the gang members. Alexander was so full of rage that he prowled the streets at night in search of the members that did this to his family, his goal was to give revenge for what they had done. The only reason he did not become a killer himself was because the mayor Tom Bradley made him promise to let it go and let the law handle the situation from there and in 1986 the killer, Cox was found and sentenced to death. Capital Punishment should be allowed because it stops the killer's from being able to kill again, it provides some closure for the families who have lost a loved one, and it is a deterrent showing what will be done to you if you do these heinous crimes.

“The death penalty is not about whether people deserve to die for the crimes they commit. The real question of capital punishment in this country is, Do we deserve to kill?” In 1607 the British left the United Kingdom to the new world now known as the United States. When the British went to the United States they brought over the death penalty with them. When the British came to the United States there had been some spies that followed them from the European countries. They ended up finding a guy named Kendall who was a spy from spain. The first execution occurred in Virginia where they executed Kendall. After the first execution, it became a regular thing in the new world. People were executed for stealing grapes, trading with the Indians and killing chickens.

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.

Imagine that you are arrested and going to be tried for a crime that you did, or did not, commit. What if you cannot afford the cost of a lawyer? Will you be able to handle the physical and mental toll that all of the appeals have on a person? The death penalty, or capital punishment, is one of the most debated topics in America. It has been used for centuries, but many claim it to be barbaric, and want the practice to end all together. The death penalty should only be used in cases where there is absolute evidence that the criminal is guilty, because life in prison can be an alternative, there are many flaws in the justice system, and it can be a cruel and unusual punishment.

American prisons today are filled to their capacities, yet crime here in America seems to have increased. I am speaking of one of the cruelest forms of crime that must be eradicated, which is murder. It seems as though a life sentence does not impose fear into modern day criminals, seeing that serious crimes are being committed more often. The death penalty is something that is needed here in the United States to help lower these ongoing vicious crime rates. In the essay “The Death Penalty: Is It Ever Justified?” Written by Edward I. Koch, this exact issue is discussed. Koch believes capital punishment in the form of the death penalty may help make these criminals to understand morality, or right from wrong. He states, “Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps to affirm that fact” (483). If they were aware of the penalty, criminals may have, “Shown moral awareness before their victims die, and not after” (484). Through persuasive techniques Koch will support his argument in favor of the death penalty.

The death penalty today is a hot button question that many experts cannot agree on. The topic deals with justice, logistics, and human morality which leads to either a person remaining alive or losing their life. It is not an easy choice to make because the death penalty has so much to do with human desires for justice as it does the justice system carrying out just punishments for crimes committed. In almost all of human history, capital punishment has been a punishment that was used to punish individuals who broke laws the society upheld. The United States of America is no different as it still continues to use the death penalty as a punishment in many states across the nation. The United States has contemplated the legality of the death penalty, with multiple court decisions dictating if and what is legal, as discussed in the video produced by CNN (http://www.cnn.com/videos/crime/2014/05/06/orig-jag-death-penalty.cnn/video/playlists/death-penalty/).

It is understood that most murderers in the United States and even around the world are not sentenced to capital punishment, but instead sent to prison from a range of seven years to life. Instead of making the punishment for murder a yearly sentence, the punishment for every single murder could be death. Right now, the only criminals who are sentenced to death are serial killers who have killed tens or even hundreds of people. If the capital punishment rule was set in stone and stated that every single murder, no matter how heinous it might have been, is to be punished with death. Right now, some people are thinking that they can kill the person that they hate or the person that had wronged them, and they would only get a sentence of about seventeen years. Their life is sometimes better in prison then on the outside. However, the murder rate would go down substantially if not disappear at all if the punishment for every murder was death. Obviously there are negative consequences to this with one of the huge ones being that the punishment would not equal the crime in severity. If a person accidentally shoots a friend or kills someone with their car with no intent, then the punishment doesn’t really fit the crime. Another consequence would be that the United States would probably lose a portion of its population as fear of capital punishments might provoke people to move out of the country. This could also increase murder rates in other countries since the criminals who would have murdered in the United States have moved

Who places the value on human life? That was the underline thought in each one of the essays read, which were written about the death penalty. Throughout this essay I will be using examples from multiple sources. Marie Cartier “Right to Life vs Right to A Life”, Edward Koch “The Death Penalty: Is it Ever Justified?”, David Bruck “The Death Penalty” which is a direct response to Koch, and lastly Zachary Shemtob and David Lat “ Should Executions Be Televised”. It should also be stated that when talking about the value of life, this author is referring to the criminal, on death row for murder. As insensitive as it may sound we are writing under the thought that what’s done is done, now what? Who has the right to determine if this criminal life has value or not.

In my opinion I believe that no one should be sentenced to death no matter what they do because at the end of the day that is a human and that is some one’s son/daughter or some one’s dad/ mum. To clarify, it is wrong for any human being to be killed because; of a crime and that is why it shouldn’t happen in Great Britain. Several reasons to support my reason are because, when they get sent to jail some people get life and that is there whole life gone. Another reason everyone makes mistakes, the sentence might be a mistake it could of not even be the person that was arrest. The racial discrimination is rising as well. Another reason is family are paying tax’s to basically kill someone.

Capital punishments have been around for centuries. They have always been an efficient way to deal with heinous criminals. I believe that you should be punished equally as to your crime, and if that crime is intentional murder then you have signed off on your life as soon as that person, or those people died. Death penalty should remain instated because people have an obvious fear of death, for the justice it rightfully deserves, and people deserved to feel safe.

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.