Pros And Cons Of Death Penalty And Mental Illness

Death Penalty & Mental Illness
In the criminal justice system there is a thin line between right and wrong. Bad people get punished for what they did and slightly better people learn their lesson. Then there is a part of prison that is worse, the part of prison that everybody would prefer to ignore. The Death Penalty. The death penalty is a punishment that prisoners receive when they’ve passed the line completely, but deep in the criminal justice system there are rules and restraints that actually save a prisoner from the death penalty. The criminal justice system prevents prisoners whose mental health is unstable from being on the death chair. The system provides evidence that says that a prisoner with mental issues cannot be put to the death penalty because they may not have been aware of the crimes they commit.

Death penalty is the punishment of execution, administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime. Mental illness can be described as many different things. Any different conditions characterized by damage of an individual 's normal cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning, and caused by social, psychological, biochemical, genetic, or other factors, such as infection or head trauma. Also called emotional illness, mental disease, and mental disorder. …show more content…
There are various disagreements on the force of the death penalty such as morality, constitutionality, deterrence, retribution, irrevocable mistakes. In the case of mentally ill offender, I feel as if that the society and the state has the responsibility of looking beyond death as a means to exact retribution, retribution in itself may not be enough as a way of justifying committed mistakes of these people or the desire to make the criminal pay for his crime. This nice way expressing society’s anger is not enough to get