What is capital punishment? Capital punishment is the practice of executing someone as punishment for a specific crime. Capital punish is how one of the most debating issues in criminal justices. In the united states, death justices system ever since it was colonized .According to the death penalty center the first person to be executed in the united states was captain George Kendall in Virginia in 1608 who was executed for being spy for Spain.
Truly there is no purpose to the Death Penalty other than vengeance, yet it seems that our society has sunk to such a level that even vengeance is acceptable to most. The state, though, mimics every abhorrent quality of a punishable act of murder; a murder committed in anger is punished with an execution committed in anger; a cold, calculated, murder committed with pleasure is met with the same form of execution. The end result is the same and the feeling with which it is carried out is the same. There are, even, many qualities of the death penalty that surpass the moral obscenity of a criminal act of murder. Where then is the difference between a murder and an execution? How can one form of murder be right and another be wrong? How can the same deed, carried out by two different people, be one time evil and another time divine? How, furthermore, can a morally adverse action promote the morality, let alone the continued existence, of human society? If we feel bad about explaining the Death Penalty to our children then we should not have to explain it at all. Death penalty is the most debating issue in the criminal justices. Capital punishment has been in some states until 1972 .When the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in Furman v. Georgia stating that it violated the eight and fourteen amendments that was cruel and unusual punishment. Another case just like this one and I believe it wasn’t the right decision. For example, in 1996, Daniel Colwell, who suffered from mental illness, claimed that he killed a randomly-selected couple in a Georgia parking lot so that the state would kill him – he was sentenced to death and ultimately took his own life while on death row.
I’m against death penalty, not because of sympathy for the criminals. But it doesn’t prevent or reduce crime, costs a whole lot more than life in prison, there are a lot of other methods to make criminals pay for their crimes, death penalty can deprive criminals of one more chance, there is a possibility to condemn a innocent people and friends and families of the defendants can get serious psychological traumas.
The death penalty doesn’t keep us safer .homicides rates for the states that use the death penalty are consistently higher than for those that don’t. Even the FBI data confirms this result. For the people who lack a conscience, fear of being caught is the best deterrent. Death is one penalty that makes an error irreversible and the chance of an error is inescapable when based on human judgments.
The cost of death penalty surprise many people. Study after study has found that the death penalty is much more expensive than life in prison. The high cost of death penalty is for the complicated legal process with the largest costs at the pre-trial and trial stages. The millions of dollars in savings could be spent on: education, roads, police officers and public safety programs after school programs, drug and alcoholic treatment, child abuse preventions programs, mental health services and services for crimes victims and their families and California taxpayers pay 90,000 more per death row prisoners each year than on prisoners in regular confinement.
There are a lots of methods to make a criminal repent for their crimes. Life without parole on the books is the most states, also prevents from reoffend and spending the rest of their life locked of knowing that they won’t be free that also helps and avoids killing an innocent person and this also has two big advantages; an innocent person have a huge chance to be