10. Promotes killing as an OK solution to a difficult problem. 11. Death sentences are handed down arbitrarily, not in a fair manner. The American Civil Liberties Union holds that the death penalty inherently violates the constitutional ban against cruel and unusual punishment and the guarantee of due process of law and the equal protection of the laws.
Amnesty International (2010) believes that the death penalty legalises an irreversible act of Violence by the state “While the death penalty runs the risk of irrevocable error it has not been proven to have any special deterrent effect. It denies the possibility of rehabilitation. It promotes simplistic responses to complex human problems, rather than pursuing constructive solutions…. It is a symptom of a culture of violence, not a solution to it. It is an affront to human dignity” (Amnesty International
That is a true punishment; knowing you have done something wrong and genuinely regretting it. There is a chance the the wrong person could be executed. Within the past forty years more than 140 people have been released from death row in 26 states after being wrongly convicted. For every ten people executed in the United States, one of them is exonerated. "The death penalty costs more, delivers less, and puts innocent lives at risk.
“Why do we kill people, who kill people, to show that killing people is wrong”. Fair enough as it might seem, but what is the ground for the opposition to the death penalty? It is asserted that death penalty is unjust, Tax Payer waste too much money, and it is a breech of biblical principles in our society. In the U.S. in 2010, 129 people on death row have been released with proof that they were wrongfully convicted.DNA, available have justify most of these convictions. I can’t guarantee we won’t execute innocent people.
Should the Death Penalty Exists in Modern day Society(USA)? by Nicholas Checketts The death penalty, in the USA, is the most inhuman and crucial punishment. Even though it is not applied in every state, the death penalty is a very strong debate and argument within the US government. There are people who support it and those who are against it. The death penalty is a punishment to those who due to their actions and circumstances commit crimes.
The case scenario on Abu Ghraib prison scandal has joined accountability and ethics together .The acts of torture and humiliation have undermined the military’s reputation and diminished the standing of the U.S. around the world which is unethical to the code of conduct of US intelligence. The spectacular nature of the scandal demands an examination of how ethical considerations play out in an accountability framework. Accountability for moral lapses and unethical behaviors is qualitatively different than it is for political or technical missteps. When you look at the definition of ethic as the standards of behavior that tell us how human beings ought to act in the many situations in which they find themselves-as friends, parents, children, citizens, businesspeople, teachers, professional that explains that the Abu Ghraib scandal is not ethically defensible. Making good ethical decisions requires a trained sensitivity to ethical issues and a practiced method for exploring the ethical aspects of a decision and weighing the considerations that should impact our choice of a course of action.There were confusing and conflicting demands made upon those responsible for the operations of the prison, but the way they reacted to those demands was wrong and immoral.
Does the death penalty serve as a justified and legitimate form of punishment? This issue has recurrently created controversial debates. Whenever the word "death penalty" comes up, extremists from both sides start yelling out their arguments. One side says discriminative, the other side says fair; one says execution; the other side says justice. Crime is an inevitable part of society, and everyone is aware that something must be done about it.
Ashlyn Smith Capital Punishment Spring 08 Capital punishment should not exist in America. Punishment by death serves no purpose or benefit to society and is an unethical practice. It simply restricts the ability to grow as a nation and as human beings. Implementing capital punishment in society is denying basic human rights, as well as, expressing the idea of a double standard: If killing is wrong, then why punish by killing? What message does this send?
Hostile Witnesses - a Menace to the Criminal Justice Administration Introduction: "Witnesses" as Bentham said: are the eyes and ears of justice. If the witness himself is incapacitated from acting as eyes and ears of justice, the trial gets putrefied and paralyzed, and it no longer can constitute a fair trial. The incapacitation may be due to several factors like the witness not being in a position for reasons beyond control to speak the truth in the Court or due to negligence or ignorance or some corrupt collusion. Time has become ripe to act on various experiences faced by Courts as a result of witnesses turning hostile very often, either due to threats, coercion, lures and monetary considerations at the instance of those in power, their henchmen and hirelings, political clouts and patronage and other innumerable corrupt practices ingenuously adopted to smoother and stifle truth and realities coming out to surface rendering truth and justice, to become ultimate casualties. Broader public and societal interests require that the victims of the crime who are not ordinarily parties to prosecution and the interests of State represented by their prosecuting agencies do not suffer even in slow process but irreversibly and irretrievably, which if allowed would undermine and destroy public confidence in the administration of justice, which may ultimately pave way for anarchy, oppression and injustice resulting in complete breakdown and collapse of the edifice of rule of law, enshrined and jealously guarded and protected by the Constitution.
“Genocide is the ultimate essentializing of the exotic. It defines a type and assigns it a character, projecting what is inwardly hated or feared onto this fetish” (Goodman, 2010). It is wrong to single out a group of people because of their religion, race, or beliefs. I do not believe that people should die because another race thinks they are better than them. I find that to be one of the most ridiculous things in the world.