Shalom wonders what this is saying about our current system that is in force (10). The author reveals that murderers that are unable to pay for their defense are more likely to be sentenced to death then those who are capable of getting a lawyer. Former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall says that “the burden of capital punishment falls upon the poor, the ignorant, and the underprivileged members of society” (11). Shalom concludes that the United States is not the only country that is continuing to practice capital punishment. The other countries are considered to be far from world leaders in human rights.
Death Penalty Nearly half of Americans say that the death penalty is not imposed often enough (Newport). Yet the number of executions in America continues to drop. There was about half the number of executions in 2009 than 1999 (Thornburgh). Some say that the death penalty should not be used at all because we are not sure if the person is guilty. In fact, the death penalty needs to be imposed more often because it prevents the murders of innocent people, and the punishment should fit the crime.
Shalom’s third point is that the death penalty is the same as imprisonment. He next pointed out that Michigan’s murder rate is lower than Illinois, even though Illinois uses the death penalty and Michigan has not in the last 150 years. Shalom’s fifth point on why the death penalty should be abolished was that capital punishment can easily cost twice as much as a lifetime imprisonment. His next point was that some people believe the victim’s family would have peace of mind knowing that justice has been served because the murderer has now been murdered. He later states that the government does not handle other crimes like they do by murdering a murderer.
Capital punishment does not deter crime; instead it increases the murder rate and there is a chance of error. Therefore, capital punishment should not exist in today’s society because it is an unconstitutional punishment. Capital punishment it’s not necessary and it is also unfair. There is a chance of error, you can execute the wrong person and later on find them innocent. Even though some may argue that death penalty deters crime, studies have shown that it does not.
Sparing the innocent victims who would be spared, ex hypothesi, by the nonexecution of murderers would be more important to me than the execution, however just, of murderers. But although there is a lively discussion of the subject, no serious evidence exists to support the hypothesis that executions produce a higher murder rate. Cf. Phillips, The Deterrent Effect of Capital Punishment: New Evidence on an Old Controversy, 86 AM. J. SOC.
Student Professor English 305 6 November 2009 I Say No To Hate Crime Laws Hate crimes are an irrational, ignorant and cowardly expression of desperation. A person who commits a hate crime is desperate to feel better, superior and in control. That being said, there should not be special laws and mandatory sentences for people who commit these heinous acts of violence because they do not accomplish the goals of eradicating or deterring bigotry. If we, as a society, put special laws and punishments into our legal system, we are unequivocally saying that the motive of these acts is more important than the intent or outcome of these crimes. I do not believe this is true nor do I feel that this is the position of the majority of people in
For instance, the criminal will think twice before killing for fear of receive the strongest punishment. Death penalty actually is not an effective crime deterrent. This is because majority of people do not anticipate they will be caught. Some states in the United State such as New York, Hawaii, Alaska and Michigan do not use the death penalty had proved they had lower murder rate than the states that do. For example in 2004, crimes rate for states do not use the death penalty had 4.08 murders per 100000 inhabitants compare to states use death penalty had 6.32 murders per 100000 inhabitants.
After the mass murders in Tasmania, Australia enacted gun law reform that removed semi automatic firearms, pump action shotguns, and rifles from civilian possession. The results of the
Capital Punishment is used in many countries such as Afghanistan, Belarus, China, Egypt, India, majority of the United States and several other countries as well. According to the United Nations, in 2012 approximately 66% of the world’s population still used the death penalty. Whereas 51% of the 195 countries in the UN had abolished it. FOR If someone murders someone else, they have given up their human rights, including the one to stay alive themselves. Real justice requires people to suffer for what they did and to suffer in a way that is appropriate for the crime.
According to the Death Penalty Information Center, “The highest level was 80 percent in 1994, and the lowest 40 percent in the late 1990s” (Bedau Hugo, 2003). In our time, two thirds of Americans still support capital punishment and they are sure that the death penalty should not be abolished. Those people believe that the death penalty helps to prevent future crimes. When murderers take other people’s lives,