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The Pros And Cons Of The Death Penalty

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A journalist for the Tulsa World wrote after assisting Robyn LeRoy Parks in an Oklahoma execution. “It was terrifying, remarkable, a disrupting intrusion into a moment, so private that reporters, believed for years that interruption is their job, had a dilemma staring each other in the eyes after it was over” (Badau, 2012). On August 10, 1982, Frank J. Coppola was electrocuted in Virginia by two 55-second shocks. The second jolts set his head, legs on fire and loaded the chamber with vapors, (Levingston, 2014). There is one person nationwide that is released from death row for every ten executions. As of 1973, many innocent people had a conviction routinely, and 156 people found their liberties from death rows from the 26 states because of their innocence. The crime rates are 80% higher in the south than all United States, even though the officials are executing alleged criminals; nevertheless, they have highest homicide rates in the country, so the death penalty intensifies violence rather than restraining it. There was a study done in Texas which proves that the present capital punishment system is a result a racist legacy of slavery. From 1930 thru 1996, 4,220 detainees were executed. More than half, nearly 53%, were black. From 1930 thru 1976, there were 455 men executed for rape and 405, around 90 percent, were black. A current …show more content…

He was wrongly accused by Juan Moreno, who testified against him, and later on, withdrew his deposition. He testified against Cantu just because he was bullied by the police to classify him as the shooter. Moreno stated that he only testified out of fear of the police. Cantu had no previous convictions, and he insisted that he was framed for the murder-robbery. Regardless he kept repeating that he was innocent, and all proofs implied entirely revoked hearsay, the judicial system had him killed anyway, (Levingston,

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Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Criminal Justice Stevenson through his book has provided various examples that show that people of color and low-income individuals are more likely to be presumed fully prior to presenting their cases. The author has stated that executions are a good example of how norms and policies are used for the purposes of punishing and controlling the people of color For instance, he argues that one in three black people are expected to be sent to jail in their lifetime. Further on, eighty percent of people on death row are black while 65 percent of homicide victims are black.

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Over the last five years, 80% of death sentences have been imposed on people of color in Texas. More than 60% of these death sentences have been on African American defendants. While African Americans comprise less than 13% of the Texas population, they comprise 44% of death row inmates, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Hispanics comprise 26.7% and whites comprise 27.2% of the death row population. According to TDCJ, there are currently 232 Texas death row inmates, which includes 6 women.

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It also needs to be recognized how it may impact a person or groups day to day lives and decision making in these situations. In keeping with time-tested American traditions, black defendants were 38 percent more likely to be sentenced to die than others who committed similar crimes, according to a study by University of Iowa Law School researchers David Baldus and George Woodworth. Their research team analyzed 667 murders that occurred in Philadelphia from 1983 to 1993. Of the 520 cases involving black defendants, 95 were sentenced to die, while 19 of the 147 non-black defendants received the death penalty. (Clarence, Chicago Tribune,1998).

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Introduction: Despite the common misconception that capital punishment leads to a safer and utopian society, research provides evidence that there is no correlation between the two. During 1972, the Supreme Court of Georgia ruled against the use of capital punishment in the Furman v Georgia case. This ruling arose after three African Americans were put on stand after being accused for different cases of murder and rape. Although death penalty was already imposed for these three cases, the court decided that death was “cruel and unusual” and consequently abolished the use of it.

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This report is helpful because it highlights how race is influenced on the death penalty. It will help me see if the death penalty is racially neutral. Coker, D. (2003). Addressing the real world of racial injustice in the criminal justice system. The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology.

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There are roughly 2.3 million people convicted for crimes, in that 2.3 million there are 704,000 people who are convicted for a "violent crime". 174,000 are convicted for murder, 17,000 for manslaughter, 165,000 for rape or sexual assault, 170,000 for robbery, 136,000 for assault and 43,000 for other violent crimes. Giving someone the death sentence can cause a domino effect on people's views of committing certain crimes. It acts as a deterrent in some

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Additionally, many people believe that the death penalty will stop future criminals from doing terrible crimes. However, the South has the highest execution rate in the US and they also have the highest homicide rate while the Northeast has the lowest execution rate and the lowest homicide rate (DPIC). The death penalty will not stop criminals from doing terrible

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Moreover, this resulted in incarceration as they made prisoners rebuild the economy basically creating slavery again. America makes up 5% of the world's population, but 25% of the world's prisoners. In the 1970’s the U.S jail population was around 357,292 incarcerated, but due to mass incarceration by the 1990’s the jail population was up to 1,179,200. African American men make up 6.5% of the American population, but 40.2% of the prison population, which has caused a strippment of equality and rights of many African Americans (Felsenthal, "Ava DuVernay's 13th Is a Shocking, Necessary Look at the Link Between Slavery and Mass Incarceration"). In addition, most of the crimes which many African Americans suffer from are minor and they are given a cruel sentencing.

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Some of them include Florida, Arkansas, Kentucky, Virginia South Carolina, and Tennessee among others. Alabama is leading with the highest per capita death penalty cases in the United States of America. Studies show that at times, Alabama imposes more death penalties compared to Texas, which has a five times more population than Alabama. According to the existing data, the first death penalty in Alabama was in 1812 where Eli Norman was charged with murder. From 1812 up to 1927, the method of execution was hanging.

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Another issue that was discussed is the inequality of death penalty in practice. There have been serious issues with racial discrimination. For reference in cases with white victims and black defendants convictions occurred twenty two percent of the time while with black victims and white defendants with percentage dropped to a measly three

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If we keep discriminating against them, their race becomes broken and our society therefore becomes broken. Justice, based on the rule of law, affects many individuals worldwide and yet no one understands how it shapes society today. Stevenson states, “The bureau of Justice statistics reported that black men were eight times more likely to be killed by the police than whites” (Stevenson 43). The state of Alabama has nearly a hundred people on death row as well as the fastest growing condemned population in the country and yet it has no public defender system, which means that large numbers of death row prisoners have no legal representation. Walter states, “They put me on death row for six years!

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A widely debated question in all of history is who is most influential person. Well, this can be broken up into two parts, who is the most influential of their time and who is the most impactful on modern day. Four big time periods with important people in each were the Renaissance, Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment. The Renaissance was a time of “rebirth” for how everything was ran. An example of this was the printing press, this revolutionized how books were made and made getting ahold of books easier.

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Crime and Punishment have been the main symbols of the existing racial disparities in the United States for a long time now. In the earlier days, the criminal justice systems mostly entailed executions, prosecutorial and judicial prejudice, and chain-gang style penal practices. The judicial systems saw the minority groups being tried in all white court rooms by all-white juries. The highest number of offenders consisted of individuals from the black communities who were subjected to harsh punishments. Blacks who victimized the whites faced harsh and racially discriminative sentences.

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Furthermore, it has been documented that in some jurisdictions, Black defendants are given the death penalty

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Studies conducted by the people behind the death penalty information center, have shown that African Americans were over 80 percent of the people condemned by the death penalty in Pennsylvania. In the united states 82% of the studies the race of the victim was found to influence the likelihood of being charged with capital murder or receiving the death penalty. Those who murdered whites were found more likely to be sentenced to death than those who murdered blacks (deathpenaltyinfo). 5. Counterclaim

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