Do criminals deserve the death penalty?
Is the death penalty necessary? The death penalty is the punishment of execution, which is administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime. Although capital punishment was used in the United States during colonial times, the death penalty was brought to the public’s attention in 1972 in the Furman v. Georgia Supreme Court case. After facing many legal challenges, the Supreme Court in the Furman v. Georgia case announced that the death penalty was unconstitutional but later reversed their decision due to the rallying of citizens. All in all, the citizens of the U.S should care about the death penalty because inmates sit in cells for years and end up being falsely convicted, this opens up the possibility of the system killing innocent people, and these death row inmates losing time with their families. I am against the death penalty because it does not reduce crime, executioners use cruel and unusual punishment on inmates, and there are many false convictions. The death penalty has not been proven to lessen crime. For example, John J. Donohue III, JD, PhD, Professor of Law at Stanford University,”Last year roughly 14,000 murders were committed but only 35 executions took place. Since murderers typically expose themselves to far greater immediate
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According to one on my sources, “The Registry reports that official misconduct was a contributing factor in 571 of 836 homicide exonerations 68.3%, very often in combination with perjury or false accusation, which also was a contributing factor in 68.3% of homicide exonerations.” (“Causes of Wrongful Convictions”). One of my sources also states that, “The data for the 34 cases in the NRE database[1] shows that the wrongful capital prosecutions involved more than mere errors.” (“Causes of Wrongful Convictions”). In the end, many death row cases have false