An Argument of why the Death Penalty needs to be Abolish
The United States is a country governed by democracy, America the leading country in the world, many of us like to pride ourselves as the greatest, even if we know we’re far from perfect, but we certainly have many good aspects. Unfortunately, many of our cons are us as the American people are spilt on many major issues. The list is endless but there is one in particular I want to make an argument that it’s time for us to banish; I am talking about is the death penalty. From the beginning of human recorded history, humans who had committed a serious enough crime would, not always, go through a trial and should they be found guilty would lose their life as punishment. From different countries …show more content…
Because the whole process of it tends to take a very long time, the costs of it up goes quickly. We prefer to ensure that the person sentence to death is not innocent, as Richard C. Dieter, who is the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center explains the time for evidences add up with a very committed court system can put much on taxpayer’s money. And as with most of those cases, the prosecution goes nowhere. An average wait could take up to ten years, at most twenty-five years, appeals and forensic evidences, Americans agreed to kill an innocent man is far worse than letting five criminals go free. It even cost more than life in prison, surprisingly enough, without the possibly of parole I might add. Professor Brad Bushamn of communication and psychology, explains by giving an example like California, the death sentence cost $250 million per execution along with the federal cost which is an additional $12 million. Death penalty supporters will dismiss this as they argue that purposely declining it as best they can be the reason taxpayers keeps spending so much. Yes, they agree, we do spend too much on the death penalty, so we need to adjust it to where we be spending less, shorting the waiting period would be the first step. Besides, the risk of convicting an innocent man is rare as we now have the advance forensic …show more content…
Of the 38 states that continue the death penalty, 20 of those does juvenile executions, 15 of those have the minimum age of 16 while the rest is age 17. Since 1976 18 minors had been executed, Texas is responsible for 13 of juvenile executions. Many argue this should be considered cruel and unusual punishment, minors are not allowed to drink or sign up for the military, yet are old enough to be sentence to death, they are not fully mature as their brains are still being developed. About 60% of the juveniles sentenced to death had a background of abuse and neglect. But supporters of the juvenile death penalty argue just because minors are not yet adults, shouldn’t be an excuse when have a conscious understanding of right and wrong, by keeping it, young adults would know there is a serious consequence when committing a horrible crime, making an example of just one of them would set the others straight from doing criminal actives. Punishment should not be decided by age, but the severity of the crime, and for that, it is
The United States is a country governed by democracy, America the leading country in the world, many of us like to pride ourselves as the greatest, even if we know we’re far from perfect, but we certainly have many good aspects. Unfortunately, many of our cons are us as the American people are spilt on many major issues. The list is endless but there is one in particular I want to make an argument that it’s time for us to banish; I am talking about is the death penalty. From the beginning of human recorded history, humans who had committed a serious enough crime would, not always, go through a trial and should they be found guilty would lose their life as punishment. From different countries …show more content…
Because the whole process of it tends to take a very long time, the costs of it up goes quickly. We prefer to ensure that the person sentence to death is not innocent, as Richard C. Dieter, who is the executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center explains the time for evidences add up with a very committed court system can put much on taxpayer’s money. And as with most of those cases, the prosecution goes nowhere. An average wait could take up to ten years, at most twenty-five years, appeals and forensic evidences, Americans agreed to kill an innocent man is far worse than letting five criminals go free. It even cost more than life in prison, surprisingly enough, without the possibly of parole I might add. Professor Brad Bushamn of communication and psychology, explains by giving an example like California, the death sentence cost $250 million per execution along with the federal cost which is an additional $12 million. Death penalty supporters will dismiss this as they argue that purposely declining it as best they can be the reason taxpayers keeps spending so much. Yes, they agree, we do spend too much on the death penalty, so we need to adjust it to where we be spending less, shorting the waiting period would be the first step. Besides, the risk of convicting an innocent man is rare as we now have the advance forensic …show more content…
Of the 38 states that continue the death penalty, 20 of those does juvenile executions, 15 of those have the minimum age of 16 while the rest is age 17. Since 1976 18 minors had been executed, Texas is responsible for 13 of juvenile executions. Many argue this should be considered cruel and unusual punishment, minors are not allowed to drink or sign up for the military, yet are old enough to be sentence to death, they are not fully mature as their brains are still being developed. About 60% of the juveniles sentenced to death had a background of abuse and neglect. But supporters of the juvenile death penalty argue just because minors are not yet adults, shouldn’t be an excuse when have a conscious understanding of right and wrong, by keeping it, young adults would know there is a serious consequence when committing a horrible crime, making an example of just one of them would set the others straight from doing criminal actives. Punishment should not be decided by age, but the severity of the crime, and for that, it is