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?
If that person values his/her life, he/she should not take another person’s life. The idealism “eye for an eye” works in this topic. Without penalty, our justice system is a failure. It would fail to bring justice to the victims who died because of these murderers. Our justice system is built to justly punish and bring justice to victims.
Lastly, those that continue to support the death penalty have lost faith in our criminal justice system. The debate over use of the death penalty has been occurring in America is dated back to the colonial times (Clear & Cole, Reisig, 2011 p546). Often the decision to impose capital punishment is not the crime itself but based on a person’s race, economic status and at times even politics. While reviewing a recent study conducted by Columbia University Law School found that two thirds of all capital trials contained serious errors. When the cases were retried, over eighty percent of the defendants were not sentenced to death and seven percent were completely acquitted.
What if that was one of your family member, wouldn’t you want them to be able to protect themselves? I would think so. Many people don’t think of gun violence this way but, it is very true. “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” It’s the person behind the gun that causes the death and deviation known with gun violence. So gun control is not the answer to the problem.
This to me is different than a planned and strategic murder of another person. I do not agree with the idea that men and women in uniform defending the freedoms of their country are ever to be considered murders when they are only following the orders they were given to support our freedoms. Terrorists are a different story all together. In war there are people who are out to hurt others for no good reason. They pick on the weak; women, children and elderly.
Persuasive essay Would you not do whatever it takes just to know that there is one less murderer on our planet? Give justice to the vistim’s grieving family at any cost? Many people believe that capital punishmant is unethical and should be abolished. But presently, the crime rate is rapidly increasing due to the lack of effective capital punishment. The murderers deserve to be executed like they killed their victims.
A vibrant selection That we will all die as we know, even though many do not want to talk about it. The only question is when and how. We all take responsibility for our own lives. Do we not also take responsibility for our own death if given the opportunity? In politics, the question of euthanasia really taboo laid.
All humans are equal so we should all have the same rights. You say ‘I don’t even hate the Taliban who shot me’ but that man could have killed you and you wouldn’t have made the speech. People like him are preventing children from getting their education, so surely you should hate the Taliban. The next generation won’t have the same education as us, and they will not be taught about life and respecting others. How can there be peace in the world if people don’t have rights?
Abolitionists disagree, stating the punishment is too harsh to serve justice, and it will not deter the committing of heinous crimes. The scriptures of the world's major religions seem to agree with, "an eye for an eye," advocates while at the same time concurring with abolitionists that, the death penalty--no matter the circumstances--is an immoral punishment. From these opposing views, we must conclude that scriptures were written by human beings, some accepting, others rejecting capital punishment. Therefore, it isn't possible to go to religious writings to find an answer acceptable to everyone. In searching for solutions, however, we should look at the Oklahoma City bomber's (Timothy McVeigh)
It is really not something you want to play around with. Because once you kill that person you cant bring them back. Just knowing you killed a person with a gun is just as bad as you using it. After they use the gun to kill someone they try and hide it, so they don’t get in trouble for the crime. But how I see it is, you do the time for your crime.