This is truly a bothersome idea because the capital punishment is irreversible. No matter how many precautions are made, there are always going to be mistakes because decisions are made by humans. If the mistake is acknowledged after the execution, then the state would have committed a crime that’s equivalent to the murder. Since the 1900's, at least 416 innocent people have been sentenced to death penalty in the name of justice. (Popular Misconceptions About the Death Penalty, n.d.).
Capital punishment is defined as the execution of a person by the state as punishment for a crime. It is said that capital punishment is inhumane as it involves the killing of people. It concerns a life created by God and raises the question on the value of life and human rights. That is why several countries have started to abolish the aforementioned rule and have used the life sentence for the same cases as that of capital punishment. Countries that still wish to use the death penalty use it for very severe crimes/offences and are likely to be less economically developed countries such that of Ethiopia, Nigeria and Malaysia.Compared to the previous times, the death penalty is now reserved as a punishment for severe crimes such as murder, espionage, treason, or as part of military justice.
Deana Cager Ms.Matis English 9 honors 21 November 11, 2011 Death Penalty Troy Davis was a man convicted for a crime in 1989, for the killing of a police officer. Seven of the nine eyewitnesses had changed their testimony and saying it wasn’t Troy Davis who killed the police officer. On September 21, 2011 Troy Davis was put to death by lethal injection. A few weeks later investigators found that he was innocent. They put this man to death without evidence to support that he committed this crime.
The Homicide Act 1957 has been criticised mainly under these following premises. The Mandatory life sentence for committing murder has been criticised for being too rigid in the cases of mercy killing, for example, a man may have helped to kill his terminally ill wife because she begged him to put an end to her pain. The court may feel considerable sympathy for the husband who carried out the act of a mercy killing, but would still be obliged to impose a life sentence. The mandatory life sentence for murder means that once convicted of the offence, the defendants face the same penalty whether they are serial killers, terrorists or mercy killers. This inflexibility prevents the court from taking into account motive or circumstances, both of which can make a significant difference to the way in which society would view the individual offence.
Innocent people are getting murdered for a crime they didn’t commit. Gray Gauger was convicted of killing his parents but, after his conviction he was from innocent when the police heard the murders talking about the killing. Recently, Troy Davis was executed after convincing the judicial court he was innocent. There was no proof that he actually murdered the victim, and to this day the prosecutors don’t even feel guilty for executing the wrong person. To add to that most of the innocent people on death penalty were black.
That is, is that person a criminal? Many innocent people would be killed if we didn’t have the death penalty because the death penalty puts down our most dangerous lawbreakers to make the streets safe. Without the death penalty our streets would be swarming with our most dangerous felons. The death penalty should
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Does death not descent under the category of “cruel and unusual”? Previous cases have outlawed castration, burning at the stake, quartering, crucifixion, breaking on the wheel, and other so called forms of brutal correction. Why not death? A human being tried to death is reduced to the value of a measly discard able object in which a defendant undergoes due process but has in a sense already lost his or her rights of the trial provided in the Fourteenth Amendment. Since death has so far been a question of judicial interpretation, I propose that it be questioned no longer.
Abstract Capital Punishment is the killing of a person by judicial process for retribution and punishment. (www.dictionary.com) The death penalty controversy is an interwoven argument, no matter where in the world you are. The main reason for this is that it is a sensitive issue which is regularly debated in many occasions, based on personal and moral beliefs. Capital Punishment has been banned from most western civilised countries, except for the United States of America. Retribution is one of the main aims of punishment.
Since the United States does not have an official religious code to interpret right from wrong, we have to depend on our criminal laws. If the laws are not strict enough, as the Death Penalty is, it is too enticing for our criminals. Therefore making it easier for criminals to kill. Harsh, severe laws provide an important measure of society's values and morals. How can the government be "soft on crime"" How can they let others kill innocent people?