Persuasive Essay Pro Death Penalty

The death penalty has been known as a punishment for many years but it is a vindictive system. The system is used to get back at the criminals that have done wrong. How are we able to classify what crime should be punishable by the death penalty? The death penalty is a cruel and unusual punishment. Throughout this essay you will encounter five chapters that back up my thesis. This essay will provide the readers with many reasons why the death penalty is detrimental and how it is affecting the lives of many people.

Keywords: Death Penalty, inmate, innocent, punishment

Introduction

About 35 innocent lives have been put on death row within the last 10 years. These people were either discharged at retrial and all charges were dropped,

The VIII Amendment states, “ Excessive bail shall not be required, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” (n.d) This amendment is not even protecting us; if it were, the death penalty would have been abolished a long time ago. My position on this topic is based on my morality. The death penalty is unfair, and therefore, should be abolished.

The death penalty has been used for many different reasons. It goes all the way back to when people would be hanged. Since the beginning of the death penalty, every state and country has had their own way of executing people and some were the first to start a method. This will be fully explained in the first chapter of my essay: History.

All death penalty methods have their own designated procedure. Each one has their required medicine and equipment. Not all states carry every method, so some inmates can pick the method they want while some are forced to go through the procedure the state has available. You will find each procedure of all methods and how sometimes executions can be botched in my second chapter: Death Penalty

The death penalty first started in Biblical times and in the United Kingdom in modern times. The death penalty started off as a belief, then it became a practice. It was believed that if people killed someone, they deserved to be killed. Some crimes that people were executed for were stealing, cutting down a tree, and robbing a rabbit warren (a network of interconnecting rabbit burrows).

In the Eighteenth Century B.C. people believed in the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon. The Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon was a set of rules that punished people for justice. People will consider this as an “ eye for an eye”.

The United States was influenced by Britain to use the death penalty. “Britain influenced America's use of the death penalty more than any other country. When European settlers came to the new world, they brought the practice of capital punishment.” (2018) There have been 153 people executed since 1973 in the United States.

In the Tenth Century A.D., hanging was the most popular method of execution in Britain. Some common methods were boiling, burning at the stake, hanging, and beheading. Marrying a Jew, not confessing to a crime, or treason were reasons people got