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The Pros And Cons Of The Death Penalty

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The death penalty is always on the news. With court official's failing to agree on a sentence for suspects, they get to escape the prison sentence and get the much easier way out also known as the Death Penalty. Meanwhile, the prosecution continues its slowing time toward the suspects execution–after, excruciating delays the case is appealed to various courts. The U.S. Supreme Court has already refused the last challenge, for example the execution of spree killer Karla Faye Tucker, who on Feb. 3 became the first woman to receive Texas’s lethal injection–unless, Gov. George W. Bush decides not to sign her a death warrant. Bush faces a really big decision, and so may take some comfort in the knowledge that signing a death warrant turned out to be a problem too, he said, “You do not know how hard it is to let a human being die”,and “when you feel that a stroke of your pen will save him.” Lincoln’s doubts had nothing to do with the legality of this punishment; as he read it, the Constitution gave him the …show more content…

The first offender I found had murdered two Chicago police officers; Second offender murdered a Chicago police officer by running him over with an automobile; Third offender beat and 86 year old woman to death with her walking cane; Fourth offender shot and killed four people during a drug-related robbery; Fifth offender had killed his girlfriend’s 16-month-old daughter by starving her and leaving her to freeze to death in the cold; Sixth offender shot an 86-year-old man to death during a robbery; Seventh offender had dressed as a priest and murdered an 81-year-old widow by shooting her twice in the back of the head; Eighth offender, shot and killed one man and wounded another during a robbery; Ninth offender raped and killed a 34-year-old woman as she waited to catch a bus; Tenth offender shot and killed three people in an argument over

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The moral of the death penalty is that when someone commits a heinous crime, they should be prosecuted in a way that is equal to their crime. Robert Blecker, JD said that "We have the responsibility to punish those who deserve it, but only to the degree they deserve it...." This states that people should get what they deserve. If they go out and commit homicide or murder for fun they should get the same treatment. Losing someone can be tragic, but losing someone because a criminal killed them is even worse.

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As of April 1, 2015, there are 3,002 inmates currently on death row. Greg Wilhoit spent five years of his life on death row for a crime he was wrongly convicted for. On June 1, 1985, Greg’s wife Kathy was viciously murdered in Oklahoma. About a year later Greg was arrested and charged with Kathy’s murder because two dental “experts”, one whom had been out dental school less than a year, testified that a bite mark found on Kathy’s body matched Greg’s teeth. While on trial Greg was assigned a new attorney which helped him to get a new trial, during the new trial forensic odonatologists examined the bite mark and testified that it could not be mark’s and was let out on bail.

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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.

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One solution would be to get rid of the death penalty. Many fellow Americans would be happy if their taxes went at least a little bit down. Another solution would be just to give the criminal life in prison. According to the book The Death Penalty written by JoAnn Bren Guernsesy, it states that "They say that too much money is wasted on trying and executing prisoners and that the state can never be sure it is not mistakenly executing an innocent person". All this money that is being to waste on a innocent person can be used for something that we actually need.

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“Although 31 of the 50 states have statutes which provide capital punishment for one or more crimes, and hundreds of prisoners remain confined in state prisons under sentence of death, only 32% of those first convicted go on to death row, and 8% of those on death row die before they are executed” (Sellin). The Death Penalty: Who Deserves It? The discussion of what’s morally correct is debated in courts every month, and less than half of criminals who originally receive the death penalty sentence actually go on to death row.

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What is an acceptable punishment for a murderer? In the U.S. murderers can undergo the consequences of their crime by life in prison or the death penalty. However, the death penalty is unconstitutional and has many defects. The physical effects of the electric chair, gas chamber, and lethal injection should be taken into consideration when determining the most humane method of execution.

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At the same time, murder rates began to plummet—to 9.6 per 100,000 in 1993, 7.7 in 1996, and 6.4 in 1999, the lowest level since 1966. So, in conclusion the number of murders committed grew as the numbers of executions were reduced. Abolitionists claim that one of the alternatives to the death penalty is life in prison without parole. I don’t think this alternative is good deterrent because the criminal can ask for appeals and as we all know laws can change. Take the James Moore case in New York State for example.

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Point number 3 is that the death penalty creates the possibility that innocent people may be put on death row. The death penalty should only be those who are convicted truly. For example, Kevin Green from the Deseret News, interviewed an innocent man, Ray Krone, a man convicted twice and was sentenced to the death penalty for something he did not do. He spent countless of money and his family had to feel the impact on the fact he was on death row for something he did not commit. The crime was a murder of a woman figure in Arizona.

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One definition of racism is defined as “hatred or intolerance of another race or other races.” Racism breeds hatred and hatred breeds racial bias even every so quietly. When the question examined on whether the majority of death penalty sentences are fueled by race rather than justification, the answer is yes. “Although the death penalty was not exclusively imposed on African Americans, it was principally reserved for them.” When applying statistical evidence to this statement, it speaks the truth.

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Exonerated death row inmate Kerry Max Cook stated in an interview, “I don't think there's any words in the English language to explain what it's--what it's like to--to sit on Texas death row… convicted but innocent and being put to death.” Twenty two years of Cooks life was spent in prison for a crime he did not commit until DNA evidence proved his innocence, warranting his release. Since 1974, 144 convicted murders have had their innocence proven, removing them from death row in America. The primary purposes of the death penalty is to bring closure to the victims family, however, taking another life will never bring the victims life back. Despite being innocent, countless others have been executed for crimes they did not commit.

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Many believe that the death sentence should be stopped while others support it as a means of protection for innocent people. The question is, which side is right? Because capital punishment is a decision that severely impacts a person’s life, it should be carefully examined to reach a conclusion on its validity and effectiveness. One of the first issues called into question is the risk of terminating innocent

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Should death row or death sentencing be legal or illegal? Ever since 1976, 1,389 convicted murderers were sentenced to death. Out of 1,389 convicted to death, there was 15 females. Death row has been around for a very long time, Death row dates back all the way to the very early B.C days. The definition of Death row/Death Sentence is, a sentence condemning a convicted defendant to death.

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Execution by legal order, otherwise known as the death penalty, is an unconstitutional punishment. Since 1976, there have been 1,425 executions in the United States (“Death Penalty Info”). Although the death rate for these capital punishments has gone down since 1999, however the United States is ranked 5th in the world for most executed by legal order “(Von Drehle)”. Many of these convicts are not given a second chance or given any other option of punishment. Retrials are important because some of these felons aren’t entirely guilty.

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We have all watched the news and seen men and women who have do some terrible things. The cops are human and they make mistakes even with suspects they might get confused with the reports which leads to false accusation. So these innocent people die because they weren't responsible of the alleged allegations. I have gone to many websites that are facts about the death penalty and these are the reasons that they are inhumane. First off, The death penalty can be inhumane under some circumstances for example the notorious Charles Manson “Manson, the serial killer who founded the "Manson Family" commune, was found guilty through joint responsibility of a number of brutal murders carried out by members of his group in the 1960s.”

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Every day numerous inmates are being convicted of a capital offense. From murder, to drug charges, and rape, and some of those inmates are being sentenced to the death penalty. The death is a form of punishment used to euthanize the inmate if they are convicted of a capital offense with DNA evidence and gone through a fair trial. The death penalty, used to terminate the life of a person who is convicted of a capital crime, is a controversial punishment.

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