The Pros And Cons Of Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment is one of the most debated and controversial subjects in our society. This Paper will show why it should be abolished and why this subject is so highly debated, it will also show what types of exactions are used, the crimes that lead to the death penalty, the effects of this punishment on reducing crime, what alternatives are available to the death penalty, and finally the ethical dilemma related to the death penalty. It will also look at the how the inmates on death row are treated and the psychological affects it has on the.

The methods used of executing someone vary greatly between each other. One method is a lethal injection which is when lethal dose of drugs administered in to the blood stream through the veins Two methods

Another method is the electric chair in this method the body tenses up and inmates frequently defecate. Smoke and steam rise out of the body probably because the inmate’s blood is boiling. The inmate's body temperature becomes so scorching that flesh falls off if someone touches the body and the inmate usually receives third and fourth-degree burns under the electrode cap, and this is called a successful exaction if it did not go well it could go a lot worse and cause pain agonizing amounts of pain. Other methods include the Gas Chamber, Hanging, and yes even a Firing squad. But one question that has never had an accurate answer is what the most humane and reliable type execution is? Well first let’s answer another question what is the most unreliable? This does have an accurate answer it is the lethal injection statics have shown that seven percent of all lethal injections carried out in the United States have failed that’s not counting the ones that succeeded but the prisoner was able to feel pain as a result of this the United States Supreme Court opened

Do the costs of this punishment justify its purpose? Well in the United States Researchers have concluded that “most of the action in homicide rates in the United States is unrelated to capital punishment. The way they did this is by studying the deterring effect of death sentences by compare homicide rates in states that have never had the death penalty to the other states that have the death penalty in the United States. Now what about the costs well studies conducted in Washington D.C on average cases where the states was looking for the death penalty coasted more than that of the cases that looked for life in prison. What about the actual costs of the execution versus life in prison figures? In California alone the taxpayers spent ninety thousand dollars more on prisoner executions than on regular prisoner. In theory California could save One billion dollars every five years if they abolished the death penalty. Other figures show that California has wasted 4 billion dollars since 1978 on capital punishment so that adds up to hundred and eighty four million dollar per year (Death Penalty Focus) since the death penalty was legalized again thirty seven years ago . Studies have shown that this number will rise to nine billion by 2030 (Alarcon, and Mitchell