Execution Via Firing Squad first, I will like to start off by saying that execution is wrong. some people might find a way to justify it but it is wrong and there is no way around. No matter the problem the crime taking the life of another should not be done by the hands of man, Prisons were created for a reason. My finals essay topic is on the law Utah passed that legalized executions via firing squad. my paper will provide detailed information on why this form capital punishment is unethical. Every form of capital punishment is unethical, including executions by the firing squad. we should join the rest of the world in banning executions not finding innovative ways to execute does on death role. According to Stuart Rachel in The Right Thing …show more content…
Capital punishment comes from an era that we are all trying to move on from. During slavery, trails were held called legal lynching where black men's and women were executed by being hanged. During that time, it was unethical to do but people still did it but now we live in a new age where we can advance and try to correct the wronged that have been done and that can be done by abandoning capital punishment. America wants to fix every other country problems but failed to realize that we also have problems of our own. Utah legalizing executions by firing squad just isn’t right, I do not see a moral stance on having a firing squad as a form of execution it is more painful, deadly, and messy. Moreover, if people truly knew the history of capital punishment more people will take a stand against it. It is cruel and unethical and therefore should be banned completely. Lynching period was not a god part of history, everyone feared for their life during that time, anyone could be lynched for no ethical reason provided and the same goes for court systems today. African America are among the top list of inmates in southern states in the south like Texas and the jury makes up the majority of Caucasian without thinking about it, we already know how the verdict is going to be. Verdict decides and finds the murder guilty but he could be innocent, could have been racial discrimination …show more content…
states government shouldn't have the power to give and take a human being life, no one should have that power. Utah and including every other state in America should not have the death penalty, executions have not taken place in Wisconsin and Michigan since the mid-1800s. Prison have worked well for Michigan and Wisconsin so why is it so hard for the other states like taxes and Utah to adopt to this change. Utah department of corrections was granted the first squad as alternatives to the lethal injection (Berman). This could be a message that's being sent with the shortage of lethal injection warning the United States to stop killing their
We pride ourselves on being a humane nation. Capital punishment is not humane. Every method of execution used is painful and often problematic. Second, we have often put to death people we later find out are innocent. The death penalty is dangerous and irreversible and therefore not a good option. Moreover, it ends up being more costly to keep the death penalty because it generates numerous lawsuits. Sometimes in Texas alone they are known to not find the right vein and the criminals are faced to die in excruciating pain. We are supposed to be a country that’s against cruel and unusual punishments. The death penalty doesn’t fit with our values that we hold dear as a nation. For these reasons I am more against the death penalty than ever.
From the time the first colonists arrived in the late Sixteen Hundreds Pennsylvania executions were carried out by public hanging (Cor.state.pa.us, 2014). In Eighteen Forty Three, Pennsylvania became the first state to abolish public hangings. From Eighteen Thirty Four until Nineteen Fifty Three each county was responsible for carrying out private hanging of criminal within the wall of the county jail.
Each year there are about 250 people added to death row and 35 executed. From 1976 to 1995 there were a total of 314 people put to death in the US 179 of them were put to death using lethal injection, 123 were put to death using electrocution, 9 were put to death in a gas chamber, 2 were hanged, and 1 was put to death using the firing squad. The death penalty is the harshest form of punishment enforced in the United Sates today. Once a jury has convicted a criminal, they go to the second part of the trial, the punishment phase. If the jury recommends the death penalty and the judge agrees then the criminal will face some form of execution, lethal injection is the most common form used today. There was a period from 1972 to 1976 that capital punishment was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Their reason for this decision was that the death penalty was "cruel and unusual punishment" under the Eighth Amendment. The decision was reversed when new methods of execution were introduced. Capital punishment is a difficult issue and there are as many different opinions as there are people. In our project, both sides have been presented and argued fully.
Since 1967, a total of 1392 executions have occurred in the United States ("Executions by Year"). What a shocking amount! This staggering number creates questioning on the topic of capital punishment. Is the death penalty really constitutional? Research and study over the topic leads to the conclusion that capital punishment should not be instituted in the United States for various reasons. The death penalty is immoral, unconstitutional, and inaccurate due to human errors.
..., and lethal gas should not be used as an execution method in my opinion. The main method of execution should be firing squad because it is the most humane and most efficient way to kill someone without torturing him or her. Six guys with guns line up and they all fire at the same times so no one who exactly the offender. I believe the United States and each State alone needs to start using or utilizing the death penalty more. Criminals need to know when they commit a heinous crime that there is a risk and that they could be put to death because of their actions. I believe once this threat is high enough and enforced enough that crime will decrease in the United States. In conclusion, criminals made their choice in committing serious crimes and now they should have to face the consequences of their actions by ending their life by using the death penalty.
Capital punishment is a problem that effects everyone. There is no way to dignify this cruel act when there are so many factors ruling against it. Not only is capital punishment unconstitutional but it also inhuman, a drain on tax payers money, and unfair on many levels. Innocent or guilty no one deserve to die under the botched unapproved toxins the prison systems are injecting into these death roll inmates. Capital punishment shouldn’t be abolished in some states, it should be abolished everywhere.
When people ask what reasons should we not have the death penalty the first reason that comes to mind is that it is immoral to what the United States stands for. Now you may ask who is this immoral to. In order to answer that I must define what immoral means, immoral means, according to Webster’s Dictionary, not conforming to the patterns of conduct usually accepted or established as consistent with principles of personal and social. As stated in the previous paragraph the 8th amendment says no cruel or unusual conduct, is it not immoral to kill someone? Would that not be immoral to the United States by going against out rights? There are many cases in which the person that committed the crime could have been deemed, “correctable”. This meaning that there are many professionals that could help figure out what went wrong with the person who committed the crime and find ways to correct their behavior, as oppose to “killing them”. As the death penalty continues to be acceptable in the United States, the new idea would be to get “revenge” not “correction”. By getting revenge on the people who commi...
The United States has a long history with the death penalty. The “first recorded execution was in Jamestown in 1608” (“Death Penalty in America” 259). Since then, thirty five states have continued to use the death penalty. Now it can be considered a normal punishment and many people feel strongly about it, but maybe we should forget what we have done in the past and take a second look. The death penalty should not be used in the United States because it is too expensive, affects the poor and minorities more than others, and (even though many people think it is true) the death penalty does not deter crime.
The death penalty is racist, it punishes the poor, it causes the innocent to die, it is not a deterrent against violent crime, and it is cruel and unusual punishment. More than half of the countries in the world have already abolished the death penalty and the U.S should abolish it too. It is wrong and cruel. Some states in the U.S still hold the death penalty because they think it will keep U.S citizens safe, but we can just keep the murders in a separate patrolled jail. Abolish it and we may save the lives of the people that may have been executed innocent.
The death penalty, ever since it was established, has created a huge controversy all throughout the world. Ever since the death penalty was created, there have been people who supported the death penalty and those who wanted to destroy it. When the death penalty was first created the methods that were used were gruesome and painful, it goes against the Eighth Amendment that was put in place many years later. The methods they used were focused on torturing the people and putting them through as much pain as possible. In today’s society the death penalty is quick and painless, it follows the Eighth Amendment. Still there are many people who are against capital punishment. The line of whether to kill a man or women for murder or to let him or her spend the rest one’s life in prison forever will never be drawn in a staight.
When someone is legally convicted of a capital crime, it is possible for their punishment to be execution. The Death Penalty has been a controversial topic for many years. Some believe the act of punishing a criminal by execution is completely inhumane, while others believe it is a necessary practice needed to keep our society safe. In this annotated bibliography, there are six articles that each argue on whether or not the death penalty should be illegalized. Some authors argue that the death penalty should be illegal because it does not act as a deterrent, and it negatively effects the victim’s families. Other scholar’s state that the death penalty should stay legalized because there is an overcrowding in prisons and it saves innocent’s lives. Whether or not the death penalty should be
There are many people that still believe that Capital Punishment is the best way to go to punish people who murder and commit other drastic crimes. I believe that murders should have the Death Penalty imposed to punish them for taking someone. else's life, although everyone has their own opinion and that is fine. to have a different opinion. Whether Capital Punishment is ethical is also up to your own beliefs, and I hope this essay has given you an insight into Capital Punishment and help you determine your own.
Many who disagree with the death penalty believe it is immoral, discriminates, is very expensive, increases crime, and is only a way to carry out revenge. This, however, is not true. Capital punishment should be legal because it is moral, by not allowing criminals to roam the streets once again. It does not discriminate against those of color or the poor, and is actually less expensive than life imprisonment. The most important reason why the death penalty should be legal is because it deters crime.
Some even claim that it is cruel and unusual punishment. I would like to shed light on the issue and inform everyone as to why we should keep the death penalty and possibly even use it more than we do now. First of all, it is hard for anyone to argue that we already use the death penalty too much because facts say that we hardly use it at all. Since 1967, there has been one execution for every 1,600 murders. There have been approximately 560,000 murders and 358 executions between 1967 and 1996(UCR and BJS).
The death penalty is legal in thirty-two states. I shall argue that capital punishment should be abolished in our country because it is never moral to kill a human being no matter what they have done, because it often costs more money to keep someone on death row than to keep someone in prison for life, because of the men and women who are wrongly accused of a crime they did not commit, and because death is the easy way out.