The Death Penalty Stopping America's Killers
The death penalty is an effective safeguard against crime. While one cannot help but feel pity for the criminal to excuse his crimes would be a step down the road to forgiving all crimes (McCuen 114). Life sentences do not adequately protect society, whereas the death penalty properly applied does so with certainty (Bender 97). By killing them we give them a zero percent chance of being released to commit a crime or to kill again. The studies show that the death penalty directly effects crime rates; between 1960 and 1969 as executions decreased the number of homicides increased (Zimring 176). By putting killers back into society, society is giving them the change to kill again; therefore, all killers should receive the death penalty. When given a second chance a person will most likely commit a crime again even if they have already done time for the same or similar crime. The same is true with murders (Zimring 165). This can clearly be seen in the case of Eddie Simon. "Eddie Simon was sentenced to death in Los Angeles... he was released from prison... within months he began to attack and kill women again" (McCuen 65). The same must be said for the retarded, who must pay f
(Nardo 39). "The truth is no innocent person has been executed in recent history" (McCuen 63). With new technology the justice system can use more full-proof ways of convicting a murder. DNA evidence can verify that the person on trial is truly the real murderer. "... [M]odern-day examples of executed innocent defendants remain as rare as unicorns, it is much easier to find evidence to execute justly convicted capital murders than would produce fatal mistakes" (McCuen 64). Innocents people being convicted of murder will become almost gone as we gain more science and technology knowledge. "Senator Strom Thurmond chaired the senate committee stating that the possibility of mistakenly executing an innocent person is necessary price to pay for protection from crime" (Nardo 45). The US justice system is also blind; it does not convict someone just based on if they are black or poor, it convicts on hard evidence. There are many reasons why have the people on death row are minorities. In 1987 of 11,474 murders 3,339 were white non-Hispanic, 5,751 were Black, 1,333 were white Hispanic, and 768 were white of unknown ethnicity. This justifies more minority executions (Bender 150). Also, "The Racial Justice Act... The act would make it unlawful to carry out a sentence of death imposed on the basis of the defendant or victim" (Bender 39). Even though this can not stop the conviction of a minority by accident, it can stop people who purposely want to convict a minority. "The more systematically we eliminate murders by executions... the greater we will be the reinforcement against killing and the greater the number of innocent lives saved" (Nardo 25). The numbers add up, and they s
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