Banning The Death Penalty In The United States

Today, thirty eight states in the United States use the death penalty. Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is putting a person to death for committing a serious crime, usually murder. The question of whether or not the death penalty should be legal has been an issue for a long time. There are many motives for the death penalty, and many states have reasons not to use the death penalty, whether it should be banned or kept is a matter of opinion. The use of capital punishment is to demand justice for violating the social contract and to reduce the culture of violence in the United States. There are types of murder; first degree murder is premeditated, meaning the killer pre-planned the murder. Second degree murder is crime of impulse or passion. Premeditated murder, or first degree murder, is the main crime for which the death penalty is the punishment. States use different types of punishment, including gas chambers, hanging, firing squad, and the electric chair, but the most popular form of execution is lethal injection. Some people believe that the death penalty is inhumane and cruel, but Representative Jim Durkin once claimed "A lot of these

Today many old issues are being raised again about how and who the penalty is carried out on. Only 32 states in the United States still use the death penalty, other states have banned it for various reasons. One of those reasons is because the amount of money it costs to execute an inmate sometimes costs more than it would to just give them life imprisonment. Another reason is because the process of capital punishment can take up to fifteen years; so many states would rather just give life sentences than have to go through that. Even though there are reasons to ban the death penalty, there are reasons to keep it