Why I am against the death penalty

The death penalty has been used for years as a way to punish the guilty. Over the years
the death penalty has cost our Justice system millions. Besides the cost, it violates our
Human Rights Bill and punishes the innocent people. The death penalty is not effective
at reducing crime. Our society is not any safer and does not deter people from breaking
the law. There are many different options in our system to fight crime, but the death
penalty in not one of them.

The death penalty is supposed prevent others from killing but it does not. According to
“Death Penalty Information Center the top academic criminological societies, 88% of
these experts rejected the notion that the death penalty acts as a deterrent to murder.”
Fear of the death penalty has little effect on people committing murder. A murder it
usually starts, as an argument gone bad when the person is angry. The average person
does not walk outside and says, “I think I will kill today”. No one makes death penalty
their first thought when they leave the house. It never crosses the people mind: if they
kill a person, they will get the death penalty. People are still killing and it has not slowed
down the number of murder cases in the US. If the death penalty is sending a message,
unfortunately no one is listening to the message.

Second, the death penalty cost more for an execution versus life in prison. Our country
spends millions to execute prisoners versus leaving them in prison. Our country is
having a budget crisis but it seem like we have millions of dollars for the death penalty.
According to “Death Penalty Information Center “California spends it cost $232.7 million
per year. A prisoner can spend life without parole cost $90,000 a year per inmate.” We
spend a huge amount for a system that has little effect on crime.

Third, the death penalty goes against our Human Right Bill. On December 10, 1948,
United Nations adopted the Human Rights Bill. According to Article 5 states that “No one
shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”.
The death penalty is heartless to humans and a cruel punishment. We say do not kill,
but we are doing the same thing. A form in which a human life is being taken by
execution is merciless. Many prisoners reform while they are in prison. Criminals have
committed some unspeakable crimes, but they do not deserve to have their life to end.
The US has changed the meaning of Human Rights Bill to justify our system settling of
scores against another. In 1986, 48 nations has abolish the death penalty.

Fourth, the death penalty has executed people who are not guilty. If we continue the
Death penalty, not guilty people will die. According to death Penalty Information Center
“Since 1973, over 130 people have been released from death row with evidence of their
innocence. From 2000-2007, there has been an average of 5 exonerations per year”.
The problem with the death penalty is that innocent people is killed. The system makes
mistakes and do not always have the evidence when convicting people. Many prisoners
spend years serving time for a crime they did not do. There is no justice for them or their
families. Justice system do not question how many not guilty has died. We can punish
them end other ways beside the death penalty.

They argue that the death penalty executing those that are guilty. Capital punishment
takes many steps to assure that fewer mistakes is made. In support of their side it is true
that criminals get a fair trial in the legal system. Our system assures that lives will be
save by execution, just the opposite there little evidence to prove that the death penalty
saves lives.
Retribution for a crime means the justice system is going to get even for the crime you
committed. Retribution it is a cruel way for our justice system justifying what they are
doing. Taking the life of the people who has killed, we are doing the same crime. Killing
the criminal is not going to bring back the victim. We justified it by saying it will bring
closer to the victims’ families. The victim family heals no faster than they did while the
prisoner was in jail. They will grieve the same way in the same amount of time. The
system is adding murder on top of murder there is no end to crime. The cycle goes on
and does not end and the whole purpose is the stop murder. At some point, the system
has to face reality and find another way that works. Criminal’s carry out murder it is the
lowest form of crime and the system does the same thing but it gets a fancier name.

Despite the claim that capital punishment can serve as a way to stop criminals. Showing
would be criminals the consequences of their actions. There is a law and justice system
and you have followed it. The death penalty should make people think before doing a
crime but it is just the opposite.

All things consider the justice system is morally wrong when it comes to the death
penalty. The cost to execute a person is more expensive than life in prison without
parole. Knowing that innocent people will be executed it is heartless way of punishment.
We should focus more on how stop and prevent crime.

The death penalty is when the government takes one’s life as a punishment for wrong
doing. The death penalty is the most extreme punishment a government can use on its
citizens. It has been used at different times in many societies in all parts of the world,
though mainly as a last resort in a small number of cases. At the beginning of the
20th century, many countries practiced some sort of capital punishment, but it is no
longer applicable in some nations. The death penalty pros and cons are among the
contemporary issues that are widely debated. This paper finds out whether death
penalty should be abolished.

The death penalty is the ultimate punishment. There is no harsher punishment than
death itself. Currently fifty-eight nations practice the death penalty. Our nation, the
United States of America, is one of the fifty-eight nations that practice the death penalty.
Currently the United States will only use the death penalty, if one commits first-degree
murder. Individuals that believe in the death penalty believe that capital punishment will
deter murderers. In this paper, I will be arguing that the death penalty does not deter
criminals and that the United States should outlaw the practice.

Before I make my argument, I would like to provide some background information

regarding the death penalty to the readers. The idea of capital punishment was brought
over from Britain, when the founding fathers declared independence. Our ancestors
loved the idea of the death penalty, since it was a common part of life. Europeans gave
the death penalty for various crimes. The first recorded execution in America occurred in
Jamestown, 1608. A man named George Kendall was executed for treason. In the
earlier colonial days, laws regarding capital punishment varied area to area.

During the nineteen century, the death penalty changed dramatically. Around this time
the death penalty started to lose popularity. States no longer committed public
executions. All executions were done in private. Pennsylvania was the first state to adopt
this trend. Eventually some states abolished the death penalty all together. In current
times, fourteen out of fifty states no longer carry out the death penalty. These states are
Alaska, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, New
Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Rhone Island, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.

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