For centuries, societies have argued for and against the use of capital punishment as a sentence to stop heinous crimes. Evidence shows that capital punishment is not the only sentence that will stop murder in our society. This essay will investigate and analyse the current laws in place and how effective they are. It will evaluate and justify if the existing laws are just and equitable.
Capital punishment is the practice of executing someone as punishment for murder or other heinous crimes after being found guilty after a fair and proper legal trial (BBC, 2014). Queensland’s last execution was in 1913 with Queensland completely abolishing capital punishment as sentencing for heinous crimes in 1922. Queensland abolished capital punishment …show more content…
The graph showing the statistical data (see appendix 8) undoubtedly prove that states with the death penalty in place actually have higher murder rates than those without the point of viewing the tables, (also provided under appendix 8) the data shows that in 2013 there was a 22% percent contrast between the two (Death Penalty Information Center, 2014). It can be derived, that whilst looking at this data, presenting capital punishment as the penalty for homicide / murder would not deter any more individuals from doing it in the first …show more content…
When asked what the worst crime someone could commit, more than 50% of those individuals responded with murder. 44% of the individuals believes that the guilty offender should be sentenced to life in jail without parole, whereas another 44% said that capital punishment was the suitable punishment …. But, when asked if they though capital punishment could stop murder, 58% of the people said no. When asked is a guilty offender should have to stay in prison for their whole sentence without parole or other luxurious stuff 65% of the asked said yes. But, they were then asked if capital punishment should exist in Queensland and 54% of the persons said yes. It appears that when looking at these answers that the people were either confused or did not read the question properly due to their being many contradictory statements. More to the point is the fact that 58% of people said that having the death penalty in place was not an appropriate thing to do.
When looking at one of man possible downfalls of having capital punishment as the sentence for committing murder, there will always be a high chance of wrongful conviction. In 1921, in Melbourne Australia, there was a rape and murder of 12 year old Alma Tirtschke which is more commonly known as the Gun Alley Murder. Mr Colin Campbell -
Capital punishment is the practice of executing someone as punishment for murder or other heinous crimes after being found guilty after a fair and proper legal trial (BBC, 2014). Queensland’s last execution was in 1913 with Queensland completely abolishing capital punishment as sentencing for heinous crimes in 1922. Queensland abolished capital punishment …show more content…
The graph showing the statistical data (see appendix 8) undoubtedly prove that states with the death penalty in place actually have higher murder rates than those without the point of viewing the tables, (also provided under appendix 8) the data shows that in 2013 there was a 22% percent contrast between the two (Death Penalty Information Center, 2014). It can be derived, that whilst looking at this data, presenting capital punishment as the penalty for homicide / murder would not deter any more individuals from doing it in the first …show more content…
When asked what the worst crime someone could commit, more than 50% of those individuals responded with murder. 44% of the individuals believes that the guilty offender should be sentenced to life in jail without parole, whereas another 44% said that capital punishment was the suitable punishment …. But, when asked if they though capital punishment could stop murder, 58% of the people said no. When asked is a guilty offender should have to stay in prison for their whole sentence without parole or other luxurious stuff 65% of the asked said yes. But, they were then asked if capital punishment should exist in Queensland and 54% of the persons said yes. It appears that when looking at these answers that the people were either confused or did not read the question properly due to their being many contradictory statements. More to the point is the fact that 58% of people said that having the death penalty in place was not an appropriate thing to do.
When looking at one of man possible downfalls of having capital punishment as the sentence for committing murder, there will always be a high chance of wrongful conviction. In 1921, in Melbourne Australia, there was a rape and murder of 12 year old Alma Tirtschke which is more commonly known as the Gun Alley Murder. Mr Colin Campbell -