death penality
Capital punishment is a very controversial issue. Many people have differing opinions about how a criminal should be disciplined, but there is no one right or correct answer. According to a USA today poll, eighty percent of Americans are currently in favor of the death penalty (USA Today). Presently, thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia have the penalty as legal statues, but is this concept of 'a life for a life' the best way to punish a criminal? Of the thirteen states that don't have the death penalty, is crime more likely to occur in their state. Has there been criminal's wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death row? Of course. Does the death penalty really prevent criminals from killing? Does a criminal think about the punishment before the crime? Is the death penalty fair to everyone, even the minorities and the poor? These are some of the questions confronting this debate. Two very important Supreme Court cases dealing with capital punishment have been heard regarding this issue. In 1972 the case of Furman vs. Georgia, the Supreme Court ruled that under the existing laws, "imposition and carrying out of the death penalty...constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eight and Fourte
The arguments against the death penalty are just as strong. The theories of two wrongs don't make a right have been heard by many. Murder is murder and its wrong no matter what. Should the punishment for a rape be another rape? Should we detach one's hand for the crime of theft? The government's jobs is to protect its citizens, but are there another ways to do it without killing our own. There are no creditable studies that show that capital punishment acts effectively as a deterrent to crime, murder, and other capital offenses. Most murder cases happen due to recklessness and are not preplanned, therefore most do not think about the consequences of their wrongful actions. States that have death penalty laws do not have lower crime rates than states without such laws (FBI). And states that have abolished capital punishment show no significant changes in either crime or murder rates. The death penalty rarely discourages murderers who plan to kill because they do not believe that they will be caught. en Amendments of the US Constitution (Supreme Court). Yet four years later, the court shifted in opposition in Gregg vs. Georgia. The Court ruled that the "punishment of death does not invariable violate the US Constitution." The Court ruled that these new statutes contained "objective standards to guide, regularize, and make rationally review able the process of imposing the death sentence" (Rehnquist). Capital punishment has been and will conti
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