How To Abolish Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment is Inflated Human Disposal Murderers are evil human beings who have a mental disorder that drives them to kill. They are considered to be the common filth of the earth and many people feel as if they should be eradicated. So, capital punishment is installed into society standards which then gives people a way to dispose of these criminals. However, by doing this everyone else is no better than they are. “Two wrongs does not make a right” is a popular mantra among mothers installed into their children, but where is this being enforced? It is not, and the common man then becomes no better than the criminal he has just condemned. Capital punishment is a fancy word for a method used by governments to kill criminals. By injecting …show more content…
Majority of the states in America have capital punishment, yet out of that number, a greater part of them do not even use the death penalty. These states are “death penalty states” in name only since some of them, such as Kansas and New Hampshire have not executed anyone in many decades (David Garland). There is no need to be classified as a death penalty state when capital punishment is never put in to action. Whereas there are states such as California and Pennsylvania who sentence many murderers to death but very rarely do they execute them (David Garland). As a result, this leaves hundreds of inmates living on “death row” with no indication as to whether they will live or be one of the unlucky few whose sentence is actually carried out. If killing someone is not cruel and unusual enough, imagine living the rest of someone’s life knowing that their destined to die but unsure if that time will ever come. These states have already taken a considerably large step towards abolishing capital punishment. By reducing and illuminating the amount of completed executions they have gained an important part of the process that only has to be finished out by repealing capital punishment in there …show more content…
Many people say it is beneficial to society and the economy to simply just dispose of the criminal. In the article Resolved: Capital Punishment Is a Beneficial Policy they say “It is MUCH more cost-effective to give someone a shot, buy a bullet, or run volts of electricity, than it is to feed and clothe the person for the rest of their lives” (Debate Issue). This statement is a demeaning comment that reduces a person to nothingness. To kill someone off because it is a more cost effective route is the same exact thing people do to dogs when the pound becomes too abundant with animals. Their basic human rights have been ripped from their hands and thus completely degrades