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Death Penalty Thesis

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Malena Roswarski
AP Lit
April 23rd, 2023
Is the Death Penalty an Effective Capital Punishment?
Two thousand five hundred people are on death row in the United States of America right now. Since 1976 more than eight thousand seven hundred Americans have been on death row, and only a little more than one thousand, five hundred fifty have actually been executed. Many Americans have different perspectives on the fisciality, morality, and biblicality of the death penalty. The death penalty is not an effective capital punishment and should be eradicated because of the overall cost to the government, the biases of the people, and the biblical truth against it.
In the United States of America, the death penalty has existed …show more content…

Because of this, the United States as a united people must find the best solution to the growing issue of the effectiveness of the death penalty as capital punishment. In “The Republican Party, Conservatives, and the Future of Capital Punishment,” the issue of the death penalty’s effectiveness is expanded on in evaluating how political affiliations determine a criminal’s life or death.
The eighth ammendment states, “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted” (Constitution). With the few people that survived the lethal injection, all of them said the same thing. The lethal injection is excruciatingly painful. While some Americans may think that the criminals on death row deserve to die in pain, practicing cruel and unusual punishment on anyone violates the constitution. Because of the constitutional violation, many people call for the nullification of the death …show more content…

Although Democrats are mainly against the death penalty and Republicans are divided on this issue, the academic journal “The Republican Party, Conservatives, and the Future of Capital Punishment” states that, “At times when voters had a chance to disband, ratify, or solidify the death penalty, the pro-death penalty option won.” The conclusion of this vote leads many people to come to the consensus that despite their political beliefs, many Americans would rather a person die than risk being exposed to danger in their own lives, no matter how small of a chance there is of that actually happening. Equally important, from a Christian moral perspective, the death penalty is against the Bible. In Exodus 20:13 and Deuteronomy 5:17 it states, “You shall not murder.” The statement is very blunt and clear. To give someone the death penalty is murder, even if that person murdered someone

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