Pros And Cons Of The Death Penalty

The death penalty provides closure for the victim(s) family and people want to protect their family at any cost. The physicians and other doctors there are not there to kill them but to make sure they are comforted at their last minute of life instead of in pain. These doctors make sure the criminal is not in pain while he or she dies. Jail is actually a nice place, people who are homeless often commit crimes to go to jail. There they get fed good, they're clothed, they have a roof over their heads, and most of all they benefit from our tax money.

In the beginning of 2018 there was already 2,816 people on death row and in the first 3 months 6 of those people were executed. The death penalty is the punishment of execution administered by someone of authority. It is used to punish someone that has committed a horrible crime . The punishment is the most expensive form of capital punishment that is given. The death penalty is not fair because it is unconstitutional, gender biased, and inhumane.

Every one in twenty-five people on death row are actually innocent. Since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, 143 people have been exonerated. Sadly this is less than half the number of the people who may have actually been innocent. The death row inmate stated earlier, Jesse Tafero, who had a botched execution was later found to have been innocent (Time). An innocent man experienced an extremely painful death orchestrated by the government.

Unfortunately, a lot of innocent people get locked up for crimes they did not commit. Unfortunately, a handful of people have been executed for crimes they did not commit. Imagine being the accused and knowing damn right that you are innocent and trying your hardest to show the law your innocence yet losing the battle. Sometimes, you're innocence is proven or at least believed by a jury. Other times it takes investigations by institutions like the Innocence Project to prove your innocence.

Climate change is a huge issue around the world. It is melting the polar ice caps, which is rising the sea level wiping out cities along the coastline. Also because of the ice caps melting many animals that live on it are going extinct. The animals that don’t live on the ice caps are also going extinct because they can’t adapt at the alarming rate that the climate is changing. Some animals are starting their migration earlier and other animals are going to higher elevations (higher than they should) to get cooler weather.

and I really do not know what my stance is. Both sides have good points, and on one hand I believe it is immoral and does not serve any justice especially if someone is falsely convicted, but for some crimes I believe if guilty it isn’t that horrible of a punishment. On the topic of false conviction and how many people on death row tend to be innocent, the the article “Justice Is Not Served with the Death Penalty” by Raymond Lesniak explains it well, stating that “Since 1973, 130 human beings on death rows throughout the United States have been released from jail for being wrongfully convicted. During that time, over 1,100 prisoners were executed. How many of them were innocent?

In case the offence escapes, or something unfortunately happens, more innocents will die. However, people have the right to live. Moreover, if the offence is wrongly convicted, his or her life is ruined. In Just Mercy, there are many cases that told us about wrongful conviction and imprisonment by some reasons. Stevenson mentions, “My short time on death row

The Increasing Danger of Executing ). In the article it shows that it was at times that there were innocent people waiting to be executed even though they were innocent and were lucky that evidence of their innocence emerged if it didn't they would have be executed. “Since 1973, 144 people on death row have been exonerated. As a percentage of all death sentences, that's just 1.6 percent. But if the innocence rate is 4.1 percent, more than twice the rate of exoneration... an untold number of innocent people have been executed...”(One in 25 sentenced to death in the U.S. is innocent, study claim).

The decisions being made are not always going to be correct. What if the person being accused is totally innocent and they have already served plenty years in prison? Should there be reparations for the person who was wrongfully accused? What is the best ethical approach to capital punishment and what are possible solutions for this?

There is a very short explanation to why the big numbers plays part in this. Death penalty is flawed in many ways. Together with all the required appeals to execute someone actually costs more than a lifetime in prison. Think about how much money the government would save if they stopped executing people. Let us take Texas as an example.

The execution in May 1989 involving Stephen McCoy is one in several examples of these defective results. According to witnesses, McCoy reacted violently to the lethal injection given to him. According to the Flawed Executions, the Anti-Death Penalty Movement, and the Politics of Capital Punishment article, “after the drug was administered McCoy was seen gagging, violently coughing, and undergoing body contortions” (Haines). Examples such as these show that the systems that has been put in place, and the methods used in order to afflict capital punishment has some defects. Morally speaking, one cannot consider to willingly and with a clear conscious sentence an individual to a punishment that completely fraudulent and unethical.

It is not only about the sentence it also has so much to do with money too. Just for one death penalty case it averages up to 1 million to 3 million dollars. Some people do not deserve the death penalty because of false accusations or for being framed

How would you feel if one of your family members was put to death for a crime he or she commited? The death penalty is wrong, no matter the crime no one deserves to die. The death penalty is the punishment of execution, administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime, the death is given to the excused from the state, an inmate can stay on death row for an average of 15 years before they are put to death;There are 5 ways someone can be put to death Lethal Injection, Electrocution, Lethal Gas, Firing Squad, and Hanging, The death penalty is legal in 31 states and is against the law in 19. The death penalty is given to human by another human so there will be mistakes out of 25 people who are put to death 1 of them will be innocent.

The definition of murder according to law.com is “the killing of a human being by a sane person, with intent, malice aforethought” (Hill 2015). Is the death penalty not, in fact, the killing of a human being by a sane person, with intent, malice aforethought? If one follows that definition then the death penalty is indeed, murder. Our government claims it is not murder through the guise of legal reasoning.

Death Penalty 144 innocent people died on death row. The Death Penalty shouldn’t be used for anything. It’s wrong because killing the guilty people. It isn’t the way to get justice. The phrase, “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth”, isn’t a fair statement.