death penalty
It is a time of mourning for the United States. They ate now being compared with the countries they, themselves, condemn. The death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment because it breaks sacred amendments and commandments. The death penalty should no longer be an option. According to many people, "we have progressed since the barbaric stone-age,"(Alexander 1) yet our judicial system does not seem to show it. Murdering someone is a barbaric act, whether it is by an individual, society, or our government. Everyone has heard the saying, "two wrongs don't make a right," what one would call the death penalty? The death penalty must be eliminated because it kills innocents and destroys our fundamental human rights: "the right to life" (Reddal 1), it is racially biased, it is based on revenge not as a deterrent and it does not deter crime, it is more expensive.Whether someone wants to believe it or not, innocent people have been sent to death row. "From 1900 to 1985, 350 people imposed with the death penalty were innocent, and 23 of those people were actually put to death" (Cruel 2). Supporters of the death penalty seem to show no remorse for these deaths. One supporter sai
Yashiro, Mitch. "Dartmouth College Speakers Criticize U.S. for use of Death Penalty." University Wire. 5 May 1999. "Contrary to popular belief, capital punishment is four to six times more expensive than life imprisonment" (McLaughlin 2). Most arguments for capital punishment are based on the belief that it is less expensive. Supporters say counting the shelter, food, electricity, water, and all other possible luxuries; life imprisonment would be more expensive. In fact, due to all appeals the courts have from death penalty recipients, it would be less costly to give an eight-teen year old life imprisonment without parole, rather than give him the death penalty. Although, the argument already seems logical there is still more that can be argued. McLaughlin, Abraham."98 Executions in '99 Re-ignites a capital debate." The Christian science monitor. 27 December 1999. This brings us to the fourth reason. Many claim it is a deterrent. It is not. "In recent studies it has been shown that the states with the death penalty have a higher murder rate than the states that already abolished it. (McLaughlin 1). It may not seem logical, but then again people with an illness do not think logically. The death penalty is not a deterrent; it cannot be. "Lawes believed that the death penalty's defects made it a useless punishment too seldom applied by a judge and a jury to be warning" (Hughes 1). The d
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