Richard Sherricky And The Death Penalty

Death to the Death Penalty

“When you use murder to end murder you guarantee murder will never end,” states Richard Sherricky. The death penalty system has executed many people, both guilty and innocent of their convictions. Imperfect is the critical justice system that has taken the lives of the innocent. This unnecessary act is morally wrong, as it is hypocritical murder. An unconstitutional process, yet deemed legal in over 35 states. The public argues that capital punishment implements a legacy of discrimination. Also, the system itself is very expensive since the cost of death exceeds the cost endless imprisonment. Capital punishment is dead wrong. It's time that our justice system repel against these barbaric ways to enhance equity of

With the cost for each death in a case being roughly about $2 million, the state and taxpayers pay for more experts, attorneys, trials, and series of appeals (Richard). The United States are wasting millions on the death penalty system when the justice system disregards the solution of only distributing life sentences in prison. Life sentences offer a more natural, though torturous fatality as criminals are forced to solitude forever. With this in mind, mistakes are more likely to be considered. Many innocent/mentally ill victims would be saved given the absence of capital punishment. On May 1990, Jesse Tafero was convicted of murdering two officers and executed in the state of Florida. The conviction was then overturned two years later after a recreation of the crime scene pronounced that a third person committed the crimes (History). For the inevitably guilty criminals, pro-death penalty Americans argue for the need to use the system as a deterrence mechanism. PhD, Ernest Van Den Hagg defends this notion: “Common sense… tells us that the death penalty will deter murder... People fear nothing more than death.” (). Still, people also fear the pang of guilt that they have to live with for the rest of their lives. The truly guilty would long for eternal rest granted in the death penalty to end their suffering. Death teaches the condemned nothing. Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the U.S, in his article Show Death Penalty the Door, wrote “the homicide rate is at least five times greater in the United States than in any Western European country, all without the death penalty”