Capital Punishment

A detailed Summary of Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment

Warda Shazadi

-Warda Shaza

Each year, 250 people are added to death row and 35 are executed. Capital punishment is the harshest form or condemnation. It is a highly controversial issue and is therefore not practiced in all parts of the world. Putting and end to someone's life is a cruel and unusual form of punishment. One can clearly see the barbaric ritual as a violation of human dignity. The fear of death has proven not to deter criminals from committing crimes. When executing the alleged, there is always a slight chance that he/she is innocent. That alone should be reason enough to discontinue with the practice. Capital punishment is morally wrong and allows humans to play God. This Barbaric ritual should be banned in all parts of the world.

Capital punishment is a relic of barbarism. The act is morally wrong. The methods though which executions are made involve physical, emotional and mental torture. Who was it that gave humans the authority to play God? If the state in which the punishment is being condemned claims that taking a life is wrong, how can

With the practice of capital punishment, there is always a slight chance of the convicted, to be innocent. The death penalty is irrevocable. In case of error, the innocently executed cannot be given another chance to live. In the last century, 75 cases of wrongful convictions were documented, 8 of these were killed by the practice of capital punishment. If 75 cases were documented, surely there were many other cases, which went undocumented. A prisoner discovered to be innocent can be freed; but neither release nor compensation is possible for an innocent death. Professor James S. Leibman of the Columbia Law School, examined every capital conviction and appeal between 1973 and 1995 and showed that courts found serious, reversible error in nearly 7 out of every 10 capital sentences, and it took an average of 9 years to catch the error. These errors were a result of incompetent defense lawyers, police or prosecutors who suppress evidence and faulty instruction to jurors. If the death penalty was practiced in these places than many innocent people would have been wrongfully executed. If out of every 50 executions, 1 person is innocent, that's 1 person too much.

the state in effect do the same thing? To punish the taking of a life, should the state not also be punished for the same thing? Capital punishment does something almost worse than lowering the governme

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