Three Good Reasons For Supporting The Death Penalty

¨I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty seems appropriate¨ (Kevorkian). In the eighteenth century the death penalty was established by King Hammurabi. Back then the death penalty was the only punishment for a crime. Drowning, beating and burning where some of the methods that were used. Today, society is torn between whether capital punishment is cruel and should not be used or that it is effective in todays world. The death penalty is a punishment a person receives when convicted of a capital crime. In the U.S. there are thirty-two states who are supporters of the death penalty (States With and Without the Death Penalty). Many people believe that the …show more content…
In the article, Three Good Reasons for Supporting the Death Penalty states that in the bible it is written ¨he who smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be put to death.¨ Having this written in the bible proves that capital punishment isn’t a bad option, fore it is Gods’ word. However, people believe that killing someone is a sin but many quotes from the Bible state otherwise, depending on the situation. Having the death penalty ¨would help/benefit families of victims¨ (Understanding Americans’ Support for the Death Penalty). Imagine losing a close family member due to a murder. What would your family want to have done about this situation? They would want to put him or her away just so that the killer can’t do this to any other family. PBS stated that ¨Some family members view the execution as an opportunity for closure.¨The article Ten Reasons To Oppose the Death Penalty Acknowledged the fact that ¨many people who oppose capital punishment have second thoughts whenever a particularly brutal murder occurs¨ Like many human beings, we all have second thoughts or make different decisions. Say that someone in town is against the death penalty but they soon find out that a friend was murdered brutally right down the street. They wouldn’t want the criminal to be let go, scotch free. They would want the murderer to get what’s …show more content…
Stated by the article, Death penalty: The High Cost of the Death penalty, ¨California has spent more than four billion on capital punishments since it was reinstated in 1978.¨ Yes, that is a lot of money but if the court system changed the length of the appeal process, death row would be cheaper. Texas on the other hand only pays 2.3 million but its murder rate is higher than any other state. ¨The death penalty involves medical doctors, who sworn to preserve life, in the act of killing¨ (Ten Reasons to Oppose the Death Penalty). Although its a law, doctors can, will and do perform lethal injections. How is this any different than a doctor prescribing a lethal medication to to someone like Brittany Maynard? That medication is a tool to help someone die, just like the lethal injections. The only difference is that Brittany asked if she can end her life, while the people on death row were sentenced to it. lastly, ¨The death penalty gives some of the worst offenders publicity that they do not deserve¨ (Ten Reasons To Oppose the Death Penalty). The court system doesn’t have to make the criminals publicized in any way. That decision can be changed any minute. They can stop making executions public and stop putting articles about these horide people in the newspaper and they can even keep the media away from the lives of inmates. By