Essay On The Death Penalty Violate The Right To Life

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The Death Penalty Violates the Right to Life

The moral problem surrounding the death penalty is that capital punishment violates the right to life. In the Roman Catholic Church we are supposed to love our neighbors as we love our selves. If we support the death penalty then we are not supporting every individual right to life. Which is fundamental and absolute sacred right that belongs to each and every person.

The arguments for capital punishment include the following: 1) the death penalty can be
Used as a deterrent to crime. 2) If the death penalty was abolished that may increase the
Rate of murders. 3) The punishment should fit the crime. 4) The instinct for retribution is part of the nature of man and channeling that instinct …show more content…

Of the four hundred and forty five executed, twenty three were wrongfully convicted” There is no credible study has yet been produced any solid scientific evidence that the death penalty deters violent crime. The penalty of death is final what if we were wrong. Imprisonment would rehabilitate the criminal.

My position is that the punishment should fit the crime. If someone commits murder they

Should be put to death. Society has become desensitized to violence with all the movies
Glamorizing violence. Also the media coverage of crimes while they are occurring,
Like the Columbine tragedy and following O.J. Simpson alluding police with his attempted escape. Society does not even seem to be bothered with all the violence
Shown on television and in the newspaper. I don’t now when this country became so
Indifferent to the increase in violence. The age of violent offenders is getting younger and younger. The government needs to start holding people accountable for their …show more content…

This should not be acceptable. If you commit murder then be executed.

Opponents to the death penalty will disagree with my views on the death penalty. The Thorsten Sellin studies conducted in the United States during 1962, 1967, and 1980 concluded that the death penalty had no deterrent effect. The British Royal Commission
On Capital punishment analyzed statistics from seven European and non-European countries reporting that no evidence linked abolition of the death penalty to increased homicide rates. Some researchers have found that the death penalty not only fails to reduce murder rates, but may also increase the number of homicides. (www.amnesty-usa.org).
The United States Bowers-Pierce study, analyzing executions between 1907 and 1963 concluded that an average of two additional murders were committed in the month after an execution. Also society noted that as of July 1997, approximately 3,269 men and women were imprisoned on death rows in the United States. An average of eighty percent of these inmates were black, and since murder in the United States is committed at an equal percentage among whites and black, the application of the death penalty is obviously racially biased. (WWW. Amnesty-usa.org). The biggest argument against the death penalty what if we kill an innocent person, which has occurred in the

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