Speaking of punishment, “While many American Protestants and Catholics, support capital punishment, other religious groups, based on their practice of morals and ethics, actively oppose capital punishment and seek its abolition” (Billman). There are those that are still undecided. Since the inception of the death penalty, in the colonial times, more than fifteen thousand Americans have been executed. According to the ACLU, the United States is the only Western democracy that opts not to recognize capital punishment as a human rights infringement. They go on to state their credence as this being “a frightening abuse of government power” (Death Penalty 101). That being said, it is a terrible financial burden to society to incarcerate a mass
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Yet, after comparing all the notes and research established by the scientists, therapists, psychologists, and experts in the criminal and legal fields, there are still some psychologist that state, people with mental illness do not commit acts of violence on the greater scale as does the general population. This idea is contradictory to their own established facts. It is these individuals with mental issues, whether clinical or theoretically diagnosed, that have been noted to have committed the mass murders documented up to today. By taking the abolitionist stance, it truly depends on the nature of the malefaction and the alternative, but if told that a person who committed mass murder had the opportunity and chance to parole out and especially in my residing community, than yes bring on the death penalty and do it quickly. There should not be second chances allowed for a person willing to commit such a dangerous act of mass
Yet, after comparing all the notes and research established by the scientists, therapists, psychologists, and experts in the criminal and legal fields, there are still some psychologist that state, people with mental illness do not commit acts of violence on the greater scale as does the general population. This idea is contradictory to their own established facts. It is these individuals with mental issues, whether clinical or theoretically diagnosed, that have been noted to have committed the mass murders documented up to today. By taking the abolitionist stance, it truly depends on the nature of the malefaction and the alternative, but if told that a person who committed mass murder had the opportunity and chance to parole out and especially in my residing community, than yes bring on the death penalty and do it quickly. There should not be second chances allowed for a person willing to commit such a dangerous act of mass