Ethical Issues Surrounding The Death Penalty

The death penalty law is used in the U.S. across different states. According to Death Penalty Information Center (2017), there are 31 states that implement the death penalty, 19 states prohibit the death penalty, and 4 states apply gubernatorial moratoria. In general, the death penalty is consider a way to deter criminals. Certain people are supposed to be punished for what they did to other people and society. Conversely, other people may considered the death penalty ought to be abolished from the entire USA. It is morally unethical and religiously inappropriate; it may transform the innocent victim died miserably; and it is an economic burden to our society due to high cost. Death penalty is morally unethical to anyone, and numerous religious consider death penalty …show more content…
A number stressed on Oregonians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (2016), around 138 innocent people have been released from death penalty since 1976, including a number of them who would be put to death within minutes. The result of the process of the death penalty is influenced under a large amount of different conditions. For example, if the victims are poor, they commonly are not able to hire lawyers with proficient practical skills. Nevertheless, if the true criminals are rich, ordinarily, they are having a bigger chance to employ sophisticated lawyers to defend for them (Campaign to End the Death Penalty, 2017). Under these different conditions of the victims and criminals, victims may turn out to be innocent “criminals”. Tragedies are taking place in the poor innocent victim since the law of the death penalty process is imperfect to control everything, it can be affected by other conditions. The result may be upside down. It is so cruel to execute an innocent victim. Death penalty should be banned to prevent these kind of tragedy happens