Death Penalty The death penalty should be illegal in all states. “ To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.” It’s not a deterrent to violent crime. “The death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment” ( "Six Reasons to Oppose the Death Penalty." Nodeathpenalty.org. Campaign to end death penalty, 2017. Web. 21 Apr. 2017). The death penalty is used for capital punishment of criminals that commits a crime. In most cases, the crime that they’ve committed is murder. The methods that are used for capital punishment is lethal injection, electrocution, lethal gas, firing squad and hanging. Most jurisdictions provide for execution by lethal injection. There is a better alternative which is life without parole. The states that have the death penalty in the U.S. are inconsistent. There are 31 states that allows capital punishment and they are Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Wyoming. There are 19 states that does not have death penalty as …show more content…
In the year of 1992, Cameron Todd Willingham was convicted of arson murder of his three kids. The rumor was that he had intentionally set a fire leading his three kids to death. In 2004, Willingham was put to death, but had been wrongly convicted of the murder of his three kids. The Texas Forensic Commission found that the evidence had been misinterpreted and that the evidence that was used against him was invalid, because the fire was really accidental. With this case of Cameron Todd Willingham, going against death penalty is best because in cases like his, no justice was served for anyone. There were four lives taken away from people that really loved