When people hear the word punishment, it is an instant reaction to think that something wrong has occurred. Punishment has always been a way that societies and governments found to discourage and alarm the population from committing unlawful actions. By law, capital punishment is the legal killing of a person for committing a crime. Consequently, capital punishment was created to reduce a number of committed murders. Every year, several people are sentenced to life. In most cases, the society forgets who these people were.
On December 24, 2012, Harlem Lewis faced an accusation for fatally shooting a Bellaire police Corporal Jimmie Norman and Terry Taylor, an owner of a local store who came to Norman’s assistance. Lewis’ family members, stated that what happened was both a shocking and …show more content…
However, in a civic view, it does not rely on anybody the right to take other people’s lives. Several countries and states throughout the United Sates, which have abolished capital punishment, noticed a subsequent decrease on what is called murder. In other words, the intention of capital punishment is to lower the murder rates, however, what it truly does is increasing it, leading capital punishment laws to a failure law enforcement. For example, in 1976, before capital punishment was abolished, three homicides were committed per 100,000 people in Canada. After the death penalty was abolished, 1.85 murders per 100,000 people in 2003. To keep one prisoner on the death row costs $90,000 for the United States taxpayers. Cases without capital punishment involved cost up to $740,000, while $1.26 million is spent in cases where the death penalty is present. It not only for a moral cause, but also for the costs it takes to go through the death penalty process. It is understandable that governments find this sort of punishments a way to maintain the safety of their population, it has not been as effective as it should
On December 24, 2012, Harlem Lewis faced an accusation for fatally shooting a Bellaire police Corporal Jimmie Norman and Terry Taylor, an owner of a local store who came to Norman’s assistance. Lewis’ family members, stated that what happened was both a shocking and …show more content…
However, in a civic view, it does not rely on anybody the right to take other people’s lives. Several countries and states throughout the United Sates, which have abolished capital punishment, noticed a subsequent decrease on what is called murder. In other words, the intention of capital punishment is to lower the murder rates, however, what it truly does is increasing it, leading capital punishment laws to a failure law enforcement. For example, in 1976, before capital punishment was abolished, three homicides were committed per 100,000 people in Canada. After the death penalty was abolished, 1.85 murders per 100,000 people in 2003. To keep one prisoner on the death row costs $90,000 for the United States taxpayers. Cases without capital punishment involved cost up to $740,000, while $1.26 million is spent in cases where the death penalty is present. It not only for a moral cause, but also for the costs it takes to go through the death penalty process. It is understandable that governments find this sort of punishments a way to maintain the safety of their population, it has not been as effective as it should