Persuasive Essay On The Death Penalty

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Sitting on a chair arms and legs strapped t it and a metal helmet over his head. As the volts rise, smoke becomes apparent in the air and fractures begin to occur. This and many more things often happen while being strapped to an electrocution chair, which is the consequence of the death penalty. The death penalty is a cruel and inhumane punishment by its methods of execution, its biased towards white people and (innocent people)

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To begin with there are multiple different ways that countries (use) the death penalty around the world. In the US, there are 4 different methods: lethal injection, electrocution, firing squad, and hanging. All of these cruel and unusual by making people suffer. Lethal injection is one of the most humane ways to achieve death. What occurs is that a deadly dose of 3 different drugs is inserted into the veins. This allows for the prisoner to die at almost an instant. According to Infobase an unbiased database, about 85% of death penalty’s are now lethal injections. Supporters argue that the death penalty is a valid and reasonable punishment, for people who may have …show more content…

Race plays a major role in deciding who gets put on death row. In fact, if a white person is killed the murderer is 97% more likely to be sent to death row than if a black person is killed. More specifically on 12 people were killed for murdering a black person, while 1,976,202 black people were executed for killing white people. People who are for the death penalty say abolishing the death penalty with disrupt the judicial system. As a matter of fact, in a majority of states, the prosecutors are white, and more than 20% of black defendants that have been punished by the death penalty have been convicted by all-white juries. Not only are the methods of torture cruel and inhumane. The system is clearly biased towards white people by not making trails and punishments fair for