Cruel and Unusual: Death Penalty
“The day has come, sitting back with my hands and feet cuffed to a chair, and a metal helmet on top of my head; staring out of a glass window seeing my friends and family cry, barley being able to look at me. Suddenly a very broad voice starts to speak. Starting to beg and plead for another chance then, SNAP it was over, the electrocution is over.” The death penalty is the punishment of execution, administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime. There are many crimes that goes to death penalty are rape of minors, to murder or any other types of capital punishment. In the United States, 4443 people, has been sentenced to the electric chair, according to Capital Punishment UK. (Ingram et al). Capital punishment is inhumane. Due to many crimes committed, and also people deserving second chances, should judge not have the right to determine if an induvial deserves to live or not, if the judge sentences an individual to the death penalty, the judge committing a crime also, for murder. …show more content…
Many judge believe that if they sentence a person to the death penalty, it will cut down the crime rate in the world. According to Amnesty USA, the murder rate in the states that does not use the death penalty has remained lower than the rate in the states that continue to use the death penalty (Amnesty).
However, the death penalty gives the victim’s family a piece of mind. Only because it is an exchange of the crime that prisoner committed. The family will have the assurance that they can gain revenge through the pain and suffering that they experienced, which is the loss of one of their family members. Families may believe that if you give the prisoner the death penalty that is one convict down and many more to go, they will be a bit safer with that prisoner dead and gone and would not have to worry about that prisoner going to kill off many other people and having many more
“The day has come, sitting back with my hands and feet cuffed to a chair, and a metal helmet on top of my head; staring out of a glass window seeing my friends and family cry, barley being able to look at me. Suddenly a very broad voice starts to speak. Starting to beg and plead for another chance then, SNAP it was over, the electrocution is over.” The death penalty is the punishment of execution, administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime. There are many crimes that goes to death penalty are rape of minors, to murder or any other types of capital punishment. In the United States, 4443 people, has been sentenced to the electric chair, according to Capital Punishment UK. (Ingram et al). Capital punishment is inhumane. Due to many crimes committed, and also people deserving second chances, should judge not have the right to determine if an induvial deserves to live or not, if the judge sentences an individual to the death penalty, the judge committing a crime also, for murder. …show more content…
Many judge believe that if they sentence a person to the death penalty, it will cut down the crime rate in the world. According to Amnesty USA, the murder rate in the states that does not use the death penalty has remained lower than the rate in the states that continue to use the death penalty (Amnesty).
However, the death penalty gives the victim’s family a piece of mind. Only because it is an exchange of the crime that prisoner committed. The family will have the assurance that they can gain revenge through the pain and suffering that they experienced, which is the loss of one of their family members. Families may believe that if you give the prisoner the death penalty that is one convict down and many more to go, they will be a bit safer with that prisoner dead and gone and would not have to worry about that prisoner going to kill off many other people and having many more