The concept of capital punishment, or as it’s better known as the death penalty, as an option within the judicial system has existed for centuries with mentions of such acts stemming all the way back to the bible. The act has had different variations changing throughout the course of time ranging from those as terrible as public centralized hanging or burning to those seemingly better such as lethal injection. Modern day demonstrations of the death penalty have been over-saturated more and more over the years effectively desensitizing the general public to the completion of such an act, the deliberate taking of another human being’s life, to be completely reasonable in its carrying out. With such early examples of the death penalty within
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Stroud III in his entry from the Arkansas law review “Capital Punishment: The Great American Paradox.” In the source material the author goes through actual court cases where the option of capital punishment was a very real chosen possibility. Stroud goes over the factors that go into the imposition of the death penalty, its history of reintroduction into the public mind and issues surrounding the country that leads in modern day executions, The United States of America. Stroud utilizes all these points to his advantage to get the point that the capital punishments continuation should be diminished across. Like myself, the author of the academic journal “Capital Punishment: The Great American Paradox”, A.M. Stroud III, both agree that the concept of capital punishment is not one to be seen as something to be pushed for onward towards the future but instead act as a memory of our nation’s past effectively leaving it behind where it truly belongs. With the mention of the reintroduction of the death penalty in the year 1974, Stroud effectively utilizes the words of the “exonerated innocent who spent years living in …show more content…
Having individuals that can testify against the false avocation that the death penalty is used to punish those truly guilty for their crimes because it displays the extreme used in the wrong instance through its ruling on the innocent. Capital punishment’s inefficiency shines through the innocents’ conviction because how is providing the wrongful ruling suppose to deter future crime it only works to diminish the public’s trust in the judicial system and the validness of the death penalty ruling. Along with innocent men speaking out against capital punishment, comes the costly and time-consuming misconception that the act of evolving the death penalty has made it more humane even though despite popular belief “the death penalty has not become more civilized with the passage of time” (Stroud III, 381). We an human beings can’t continue to turn a blind eye towards the fact that no matter how the executors of the death penalty make it look it is still the blatant taking of another’s life whether it be with a rope, a chair or lethal doses of drugs. Another reason that both Stroud and myself see as being worth ending the option of capital punishment judicial decision is the appalling conditions that create “an environment conducive to depression and hopelessness” for its inmates (Stroud, 383). The living conditions that these convicted human beings are stuck in borders on cruel
Stroud III in his entry from the Arkansas law review “Capital Punishment: The Great American Paradox.” In the source material the author goes through actual court cases where the option of capital punishment was a very real chosen possibility. Stroud goes over the factors that go into the imposition of the death penalty, its history of reintroduction into the public mind and issues surrounding the country that leads in modern day executions, The United States of America. Stroud utilizes all these points to his advantage to get the point that the capital punishments continuation should be diminished across. Like myself, the author of the academic journal “Capital Punishment: The Great American Paradox”, A.M. Stroud III, both agree that the concept of capital punishment is not one to be seen as something to be pushed for onward towards the future but instead act as a memory of our nation’s past effectively leaving it behind where it truly belongs. With the mention of the reintroduction of the death penalty in the year 1974, Stroud effectively utilizes the words of the “exonerated innocent who spent years living in …show more content…
Having individuals that can testify against the false avocation that the death penalty is used to punish those truly guilty for their crimes because it displays the extreme used in the wrong instance through its ruling on the innocent. Capital punishment’s inefficiency shines through the innocents’ conviction because how is providing the wrongful ruling suppose to deter future crime it only works to diminish the public’s trust in the judicial system and the validness of the death penalty ruling. Along with innocent men speaking out against capital punishment, comes the costly and time-consuming misconception that the act of evolving the death penalty has made it more humane even though despite popular belief “the death penalty has not become more civilized with the passage of time” (Stroud III, 381). We an human beings can’t continue to turn a blind eye towards the fact that no matter how the executors of the death penalty make it look it is still the blatant taking of another’s life whether it be with a rope, a chair or lethal doses of drugs. Another reason that both Stroud and myself see as being worth ending the option of capital punishment judicial decision is the appalling conditions that create “an environment conducive to depression and hopelessness” for its inmates (Stroud, 383). The living conditions that these convicted human beings are stuck in borders on cruel