The death penalty has been around for almost as long as humans have. The earliest known written laws of the death penalty are in the “The Code of Hammurabi” where of the 282 laws being written, 25 of them were punishable by death. On April 30th, 1790, the United States Congress establishes a federal death penalty, allowing judges to convict murderers to death for murder, also it allowed judges to convict them to surgical dissection after their execution. Even though the death penalty was very popular in the United States, like always there will be people against it. (ProCon, par 1-6) This is because many believe it is un-humane and that there are other ways around the killing of these murderers, because it’s not only killing the convicted
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One of these punishments is life without parole, “Life without parole is sometimes called a “true life sentence” because offenders are sentenced to spend the remainder of their natural lives in prison.” (Johnson & McGunigall-Smith, p 328) Life with parole is the most humane way to treat the murderers. It’s not putting innocent lives in danger because they aren’t being let out into the world, but at the same time it’s not letting them off easy because they will be spending the rest of their lives dealing with what they have done. Basically the convicted murderer is being sentenced to death in prison. They are trading their civil lives, their ability to live outside of the prison, for the natural lives they took from the people they …show more content…
The people in The First National Death Penalty Society are from different backgrounds and have different experiences with the death penalty, but all unite as one to fight what they believe in to hopefully show them that the death penalty isn’t the answer. This isn’t the only organization working for the end of capital punishment. Another example is the Catholics Against Capital Punishment (CACP), their main mission is to prepare catholics, and others, for informed involvement in the public debate to end the death penalty and promote restorative justice (Catholic Mobilizing Network, par 1) There are a lot of other organizations who are against the death penalty as
One of these punishments is life without parole, “Life without parole is sometimes called a “true life sentence” because offenders are sentenced to spend the remainder of their natural lives in prison.” (Johnson & McGunigall-Smith, p 328) Life with parole is the most humane way to treat the murderers. It’s not putting innocent lives in danger because they aren’t being let out into the world, but at the same time it’s not letting them off easy because they will be spending the rest of their lives dealing with what they have done. Basically the convicted murderer is being sentenced to death in prison. They are trading their civil lives, their ability to live outside of the prison, for the natural lives they took from the people they …show more content…
The people in The First National Death Penalty Society are from different backgrounds and have different experiences with the death penalty, but all unite as one to fight what they believe in to hopefully show them that the death penalty isn’t the answer. This isn’t the only organization working for the end of capital punishment. Another example is the Catholics Against Capital Punishment (CACP), their main mission is to prepare catholics, and others, for informed involvement in the public debate to end the death penalty and promote restorative justice (Catholic Mobilizing Network, par 1) There are a lot of other organizations who are against the death penalty as