The Murder Of A State

Keeping a prisoner in jail for life will be very expensive considering that it costs $80,000 a year; and the bad news is that the money comes from the taxpayer's pocket. Thousands of people will attack the death penalty. They will give emotional speeches about the one innocent man who might be executed. However, all of these people are forgetting one crucial element. They are forgetting the thousands of victims who die every year. This may sound awkward, but the death penalty saves lives. It saves lives because it stops those who murder from ever murdering again (Bryant). These opinions represent some of the strongest and most influential views that proponents hold. However, if our prison system could rehabilitate more effectively, perhaps those who murdered once, could change.

In my opinion the death penalty truly does help to eliminate the problem of overpopulation in prisons. When prisons become overpopulated more money is needed to pay for supplies for inmates. Why should taxpayers have to pay for criminal that have murdered people? Murdering someone is honestly one of the worst things a person could ever do. Americans should not have to pay to provide inmates with television. The person that was murdered is not going to be able to watch television, so why should the killer be able too. Inmates just sit in jail watching television, doing crafts, playing sports, eating, working, and sleeping. Many people say life without parole is better than the death penalty. I strongly disagree with this statement, because life without parole allows a killer to keep living their life after they took the life of another person. Plus keeping everyone just in prison without parole goes back to the fact it is very costly to pay for prison inmates. Overpopulation in prisons can lead to many riots, injuries, and even deaths. These riots can be from the cause of not enough food or supplies in the prison. Many prisoners have been known to kill their fellow cellmates, but yet all they get is another life sentence for taking another life. I do not agree that life without parole is better than the death penalty. After learning what talks place with killers in prison and

If found guilty of a murder should the person in custody be sentenced to death? Here is why the death penalty is acceptable, the cost of life in prison vs. the cost of death, the morality, also closure for the victim’s family.

The death penalty is supposed to deter murder and bring the justice that the murder families of the victims should be rewarded (Hyden). Although many scientific researches can conclude that it does not deter murder and the members of the murder victims’ family have rejected/rejecting the program because it retraumatizes them with long process of trials, appeals, and of course the media (Hyden). In contrast, a sentence of life in prison is certain and instant, allowing the families to move on knowing that the justice of the crime is being served. Comparing whether or not the death penalty should be legalized, the reasons as to why it shouldn’t be, are strong enough to change one person’s mind. The death penalty still should be illegal in the United States.

if Alonza TThomas was engaged in a crime that warranted the death penalty he will be charge and accused of the crime he committed by being put into death penalty. he had to pay for the crime. . yes i think the death penalty violates the 8th amendment because it is cruel and unusual punishment. it is cruel to kill someone no matter how bad was the crime. it show people that if you committed a crime the same thing will be done to them. it is an eye for an eye. i disagree with this kind of punishment because a person can not be killed like that. i think they are so many options for people to be punish and pay for their rime. death penalty do not teach a person a lesson to not commit the crime again. i think society has to progress by finding

This brings forth Stevens’s main points, namely preventing a murderer from murdering again and deterring murder. Incarcerating the individual (who supposedly committed a crime of high enough degree to be imprisoned for life) in a maximum security prison without parole would be enough to prevent them from committing any more crimes and thus preventing said crime from occurring again. Furthermore, there is no evidence that the death penalty prevents more crimes than the amount that occurs. Many individuals that have murdered another citizen do so for a “reason.” While serial killers, rapists, and arsonists do exist, catching one would not prevent the hundreds of individuals from committing a single murder, resulting in individual murders stacking up and eventually causing more deaths than that of a single serial

More than a hundred of Americans are wrongfully sent to death row. Hundreds of people die innocent. Killing people for killing others is wrong in any situation. Though some people say when murder is punished with death less people will commit crime, murdering is uncivil, especially when the person is wrongfully accused.

1. Being in prison for life is tough enough, life imprisonment breaks down one’s mental health which is more detrimental and serves more as a “payback” to the murderer.

This was an extremely hard question for me to answer. I spent a good hour trying to figure if I believe it’s justified or not. When I think about the mass murdering that has happened from people who have unjustly killed a great amount of innocent people, for example the Charleston Church Shooting and the Boston Bombing, I get angry, I want the retribution to be the death penalty. Then I think about the morals that my parents instilled in me. “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind” Vengeance disguised as justice, isn’t something America should promote because reacting to violence with more violence breeds a culture of violence .The 8th Amendment states, “Excessive bail shall not be required nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. I”m pretty sure the death penalty falls into the “cruel and unusual” part of The 8th Amendment, so wouldn’t that make the death penalty unconstitutional? Are we violating The Bill of Rights? While others may think that the death penalty is warranted, I believe it’s unwarranted because it’s not necessary to kill someone to prevent them from causing further harm, and from the data displaying the use of the death penalty and the murder rates across the states, it shows that the use of the capital punishment doesn’t dissuade criminals from committing

Murder is planned out and requires a somewhat heartless person to commit the crime. But a person’s mentality comes into play. Murder being justified can go both ways. some people believe that murdering a person can be good. When convicted criminals are sentenced to death, they are murdered for the good of society.

The death penalty is not only inhumane but too easy for these criminals that deserve it. The life sentence is swift, severe and certain punishment according to The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU, 2015). Sentencing someone to die in jail is a pragmatic alternative to public safety along with murder victims’ families to still provide them with justice. The death penalty can be consider the easy way out. Being only about 20 minutes of terror. The life sentence gets more justice out of the criminal, they have to sit in a cell for the

While criminals must be punished for their criminal actions, “legalized murder”, as author Coretta Scott King put it, is immoral. The death penalty is legalizing the very thing that many on death row are charged for, murder. There is a multitude of lawful alternatives, to the death penalty, of reestablishing a better reputation for the criminals. The Constitution has no true right to allow such a felonious form of rehabilitation.

People that are against capital punishment say that life in prison without parole serves just as well. That would be the case if you ignore all the murders criminals commit while in prison

Individuals may often ponder, which is more principled: Does the death penalty have more to do with the murderer deserving to die, or the state being allowed to kill this person? Depending on their personal morals or cultural beliefs and perspectives, people could decide either way. According to NYU School of Law, Prof. Bryan Stevenson, “Death sentences are imposed in a criminal justice system that treats you better if you are rich and guilty than if you are poor and innocent.”

A historical moment in United States history was shortly after the “so called,” “Boston Massacre. Many British soldiers were being accused of murder; but one Patriot, John Adams, who would one day become our second President, asserted that everyone deserves a fair trial. There was no killing. Only trials, observation, and questions. Our country states that everyone deserves the right to a trial, and not automatic death. The theory of capital punishment, or as most of you call it, the death penalty, is a violent way to sort out the criminals of an event. Capital punishment is a serious issue, and most of United States is on it. In fact, it is on the 2016 Presidential ballot, whether it should remain or be abolished. To inform people, capital punishment is a government practice where a person is put to death for a crime they committed. These capital offences are of serious issue, but should it really determine whether a person is allowed to live? No! I am an opponent for the death penalty being used anywhere in the world.