Capital Punishment or death penalty is a government sanction punishment by death. Through Capital Punishment has been used since when Britain first settle in the colonies in early 1600s, Capital Punishment had been a controversial topic. While some thinks Capital Punishment serve as an unusual and cruel punishment that violate the 8th amendment, other thinks Capital Punishment is extremely effective because the harsh punishment can prevent future crime.
The history Capital punishment in the US all started when the British settlement came to the new world and brought their influence of the death penalty to the Jamestown colonies in the 1600s. Other colonies also started the death penalty. However in the mid 1700s, some colonies start to revise …show more content…
In 1833, Pennsylvania became the first state to move execution to a facilities rather than from public eye. In 1846, Michigan became the first state to abolish the death penalty on all crime except for treason. While some state are trying to limit the use of Capital punishment, In most southern state, they held on to the usual capital punishment with some state make more crime a capital punishment mostly against the slaves. During and after the civil war, the opposition of the death penalty start to decline, and in 1888, New york introduce the electric chair as a method to execute criminals. And in 1922, Nevada use cyanide gas to execute criminals seeing it might be a more humane way of execution. During the 1920s to 1940s, The use of Capital Punishment increase dramatically with an average of 167 execution per year in the 1930s. The most out of any decade throughout American History. However after 1940s, execution was dropped dramatically through a long period of time. In fact, there were 715 execution in the 1950s compare to 1289 execution in the 1940s. And there were only just 191 execution between 1960 to 1974. In 1966 support for capital punishment reach an all time low of just 42% and in 1972 the death …show more content…
While there been past court case that has dramatically limited such as Ring v. Arizona decision to allow the judge to decide whether or not the crime fit the category that is nesscary to impose the death peanlty; There been also laws such as the Innocent Protection act to limit the amount of death row member to be wrongly executed. However critics that is against the death peanlty have many evidence that found the death peanlty is very ineffective. First, researcher have found there are 4.1% of death row inmate might have been found innocent since 1971 and 1.6 % of death row member was released since 1971 . In addition to that, Many states have start to abandon the death penalty. Since 2007, 6 states have abolish the death peanlty with Nebraska the most recent states to remove the death peanlty in 2015. The 32 remaining states that have the death peanlty, only 6 use the death peanlty in 2015. Futhermore, the amount of cost for the death peanlty is extremly expensive. In California the cost of the death peanlty have reach $4 billion since 1978 with $1.94 billion use for the cost of the trial, $925 million use for Automatic Appeals and State Habeas Corpus Petition, $775 million use for Federal Habeas Corpus Appeals and $1 billion on cost of incarcation. If California sentence
The history Capital punishment in the US all started when the British settlement came to the new world and brought their influence of the death penalty to the Jamestown colonies in the 1600s. Other colonies also started the death penalty. However in the mid 1700s, some colonies start to revise …show more content…
In 1833, Pennsylvania became the first state to move execution to a facilities rather than from public eye. In 1846, Michigan became the first state to abolish the death penalty on all crime except for treason. While some state are trying to limit the use of Capital punishment, In most southern state, they held on to the usual capital punishment with some state make more crime a capital punishment mostly against the slaves. During and after the civil war, the opposition of the death penalty start to decline, and in 1888, New york introduce the electric chair as a method to execute criminals. And in 1922, Nevada use cyanide gas to execute criminals seeing it might be a more humane way of execution. During the 1920s to 1940s, The use of Capital Punishment increase dramatically with an average of 167 execution per year in the 1930s. The most out of any decade throughout American History. However after 1940s, execution was dropped dramatically through a long period of time. In fact, there were 715 execution in the 1950s compare to 1289 execution in the 1940s. And there were only just 191 execution between 1960 to 1974. In 1966 support for capital punishment reach an all time low of just 42% and in 1972 the death …show more content…
While there been past court case that has dramatically limited such as Ring v. Arizona decision to allow the judge to decide whether or not the crime fit the category that is nesscary to impose the death peanlty; There been also laws such as the Innocent Protection act to limit the amount of death row member to be wrongly executed. However critics that is against the death peanlty have many evidence that found the death peanlty is very ineffective. First, researcher have found there are 4.1% of death row inmate might have been found innocent since 1971 and 1.6 % of death row member was released since 1971 . In addition to that, Many states have start to abandon the death penalty. Since 2007, 6 states have abolish the death peanlty with Nebraska the most recent states to remove the death peanlty in 2015. The 32 remaining states that have the death peanlty, only 6 use the death peanlty in 2015. Futhermore, the amount of cost for the death peanlty is extremly expensive. In California the cost of the death peanlty have reach $4 billion since 1978 with $1.94 billion use for the cost of the trial, $925 million use for Automatic Appeals and State Habeas Corpus Petition, $775 million use for Federal Habeas Corpus Appeals and $1 billion on cost of incarcation. If California sentence