Is Capital Punishment an Ethical Response to Crime?
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a punishment in which convicted people who have believed to commit terrible, unspeakable crimes will get killed via lethal injection, electrocution, gas chamber, hung or firing squad. After getting put on ‘death row’ for an average of 13 years, with some inmates spending over 30 years. How would like it if you were enclosed in a cell for over 30 years?
Is taking someone’s life for something they’ve done wrong really a humane thing to do? Although there is the saying ‘an eye for and eye’ there is also the saying ‘two wrongs do not make a right’. The punishment of the convicted criminal should ‘fit the crime’ – If they killed someone, they should be killed to. Whereas others may say, the death penalty goes against our most basic
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In 9 years New York paid roughly $170 million and had no executions, also New Jersey spend $253 million over a 25-year period which also had no executions. This is a huge amount of money compared to a life sentence, why doesn’t every country use life sentences instead? When Timothy McVeigh was convicted and executed for the Oklahoma City Bombing that alone cost $13 million, although, if a life sentence without parole is given, instead it will cost around 7 times less. Although others may say that in most cases a death penalty worth the money, when having a criminal executed they are taken off the streets for ever and never to be seen again, no-one has to think about them anymore. On the other hand if the convicted criminal has been given a life sentence, in some countries a life sentence may only be 30 years. When that criminal is then released back onto the streets – into the public, they could still be dangerous, which would lead to civilians getting worried once