The Controversy Of The Death Penalty

The Death Penalty is also referred to as Capital Punishment and is a process where a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime committed. This is also called a death sentence. This topic has been the source of debate for centuries and continues to be a heated topic. The question that comes in play is whether we are any better than the criminal if we put him/her to death. Some people have been wrongly convicted of a crime and put on death row and later released because they are later found innocent of the charges. The question is do we want to put a person to death and later determine if they are innocent? Death Penalty has been used by countries or states as punishment for crimes or for persons who goes against the political

These offenders include murder, Treason, spying, sexual crimes such as rape, adultery, incest and sodomy. Sometimes, militaries will court Marshall an individual and sentence him to death for desertion, insubordination, cowardice and stirring up protests. The most common methods of capital punishment were decapitation, hanging stoning and firing squad. Various nations use the death penalty as a mean of controlling those who oppose the political system. Other nations especially those of Islamic beliefs use it for those who have other religions than Islam. Some states in the United States have abolished capital punishment. In the United States the use of the electric chain and the gas chamber were considered more humane than hanging or other gross method. Today, we have gone almost exclusively to death by lethal injection. In today’s society, public opinion on the death penalty varies greatly by state and for the crime in

The death penalty for juveniles (under the age of 18 years old at the time of the crime) has become rare. In most countries, the majority age is still 18 and the United States rose the minimum age to 18 years old. The united states supreme court abolished capital punishment for offenders under the age of 16 in Thompson vs. Oklahoma (1988) and for all juveniles in Roper vs. Simmons (2005) and in 2002, the supreme court declared unconstitutional the execution of individuals with a intellectual disability (Atkins vs. Virginia). There are many national and international organizations whose mission is to abolish the death penalty. Those who support the idea of using the death penalty says that it cuts down on crime, that it is a good mean by which police and justice system can assure that this criminal will not do this crime again. Others believe that the death penalty should be reserved for crimes such as child murders, serial killers, or torture murderers. Those who oppose the death penalty argue that all persons who commit murder do not deserve the death penalty and that it discriminates against minorities, the poor and men. Those opposing capital punishment believes it is a terrible violation of human rights, and the right to life is a fundamental human right. Opponents also argue that capital punishment lead to injustice through the wrongful execution of innocent people, with new and better technology, many innocent people