Execution why it needs to be public. Executions being public because it would change the amount of crime committed on the streets, and it would strike fear into the country’s population. Public executions would also help save the taxpayers’ money. Having executions like this would also change the prison population throughout the country. Executing people publicly would bring some closure to the families that were hurt by the suspect being executed. Executions should be public because it would be a crime deterrent, it would save taxpayers’ money, and reduce population in the prison system.
Public execution would put fear into the country’s population. If public execution was legal citizens would witness the consequences of crimes they will begin to think before they act. While there is no solid evidence linking public execution to lower crime rates some professors believe that it will cause a decrease in crime. (Isay) People in this country would not want to commit crimes because people fear death and would not want to be executed. (Leighton) Some believe that the reason people do not support the death penalty is because they fear execution themselves. (Leighton) One group did a study over the decades the years where the execution rate was higher the lower the murder rate was. (Isay) If executions were public and there were executions much like the Suddam Hussein and Benito Mussolini executions people would never commit crimes ever again. (Leighton) Public execution for many crimes would prevent people from doing anything that is seen legally as some form of crime. (Leighton) The rate of crime in the country would drop severely once public execution was made legal for inmates. (Leighton) After witnessing the execution of many inma...
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...eople rethink committing crimes. The drop in the prison population would also reduce prison crime. (Reggio) Fearful people after witnessing executions would not want to go to prison and take chances like that. (Smith) With the drop of prison populations there would be less drug use, murders, and rapes on criminals by criminals in prison. Public executions would most likely prevent prisons from being needed. (Smith) With the prevention of prisons there would be more land to have houses, national parks, hunting clubs, and farmland for the hungry/starving people/children in the country. If the penal system was completely gone the economy would go up and there would be more money for the workers in the country and pay of some of the country’s debt.
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Many people are led to believe that the death penalty doesn’t occur very often and that very few people are actually killed, but in reality, it’s quite the opposite. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1,359 people have been executed as a result of being on death row since 1977 to 2013. Even though this form of punishment is extremely controversial, due to the fact that someone’s life is at stake, it somehow still stands to this very day as our ultimate form of punishment. Although capital punishment puts murderers to death, it should be abolished because killing someone who murdered another, does not and will not make the situation any better in addition to costing tax payers millions of dollars.
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Death penalty opponents feel that the death penalty actually leads to an increase in crime because the death penalty desensitizes people to violence, and it sends the message that violence is a suitable way to resolve conflicts. Death penalty opponents also condemn the death penalty because of the possibility of an innocent person being put to death, and because it can be unfairly applied. Death penalty opponents feel that the death penalty must be abolished because it cheapens the value of human life. The death penalty desensitizes people to murder and violence because, by executing people, the state sends the message that violence is an acceptable means of resolving conflicts (Terrill). The death penalty also reduces the gravity of the loss of human life by making it legal for the state to kill people it deems to be beyond reform (Winters 57). Death penalty oppo...
Eliminating the death penalty as a method of punishment will only allow criminals to wreak havoc and chaotic in our community without the fear of death. When a person commits a crime, they are disrupting the order in the community. Justice help restore the disruption of that order. The Death penalty restore social order and give the states authority to maximized retribution for the victims. When the state does not have the authority to maximum retribution, the public may put the law in their own hands. Although, execution may be cruel and inhumane, it is nothing compared to the fate of many victims in the hand of the murderers. The purpose of the death penalty is to provide retribution for the victims and their families. However, retribution is not revenge. “Vengeance signifies inflicting harm on the offender out of anger because of what he has done. Retribution is the rationally supported theory that the criminal deserves a punishment fitting the gravity of his crime” (Pojman, 2004).
In conclusion, our justice system is full of flaws and proves to show why the death penalty should be abolished. The reasons for it to be abolished include: financials cost, long drawn out process, more effective sentencing styles, the conviction and execution of an innocent person and the violation of the “cruel and unusual” punishment clause in the Bill of Rights. While the death penalty may seem like the right thing to do under the philosophy of “Eye for Eye”, it only encourages the ongoing process of criminal behavior. Our criminal justice system is blurred and sometimes ineffective when it comes to certain cases. Moreover, justice can be bought rather served.
As justification for capital punishment, deterrence is used to suggest that executing murderers will decrease the homicide rate by causing other potential murderers not to commit murder from fear of being executed themselves and obviously the murderer who is executed will not kill again. This position may seem initially correct, and indeed, in a USA Today Poll, 68% of respondents agreed that the death penalty is an effective deterrence for crimes. However, some research suggests that rather than deterring homicide, state executions actually may cause an increase in the number of homicides (Stack, 1990). This phenomenon has been called the "brutalization hypothesis" and it suggests that through proposition, modeling, or by legitimizing killing, the death penalty actually causes an increase in homicides. Thus, the brutalization hypothesis is a reason for opposing the death penalty.
“The death penalty is popular among politicians and the public in response to the escalating fear of violence. However, capital punishment actually makes the fight against crime more difficult. Executions waste valuable resources that could be applied to more promising efforts to protect the public. Additionally, innocent people are sometimes executed and the brutalizing effect executions have on society may result in more murders. For these reasons, the death penalty should be opposed.” (Morgenthau 14)
The death penalty has been a strong controversial argument since it first got ratified into the law. It gives the power of taking an individual’s life into the hands of those around them. The peers around him may only need to state one effortless word that can sentence the person to incarceration leading to their inevitable execution that. The death penalty has inflicted a new type of concern in the minds of many Americans, in which many are not entirely sure such punishments are necessary anymore, not only through opinions but also through substantial facts that support the abolishing of such an inhumane punishment which has proven to have become less beneficial than anything else.
The death penalty is an economically wasteful method of punishment. It has been calculated that “if the death penalty was extinguished…we could save $11 million a year” (Locke). While this may not seem a significant sum, ...