Death Penalty
The Death Penalty has been a controversial subject in the American legal system for the past fifty years. There are many facts and reasons why the death penalty should be opposed. Valid reasons are the death penalty is racist, it punishes the poor along with condemning the innocent to die and it’s not a deterrent to violent crime.The United States is a unique country because it allows individual states to decide whether or not they wish to invoke capital punishment. Most foreign nations have a policy on capital punishment that applies to the whole country. The U.S also is one of a handful of countries, which still executes people and there are around 3,000 people on death row, more than any time in U.S. history. (Hood 25,26) Both political parties in the U.S. have started a “get tough” policy, which means more executions and also means something has to be done soon to end this practice. There have been many problems with the death penalty and one that is still evident and very controversial is that it’s racist. The death penalty was even abolished for four years because capital punishment had many racial issues. African Americans have seen and felt the racism of the judicial system pertaining to
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