Research Papers On The Death Penalty

Death Penalty For centuries the ultimate punishment for crime has been the death penalty and even in the modern day it is still heavily used throughout the world. Societies have used this method of punishment to control crime and satisfy the victim 's family who are mourning. The people’s main concern is they want answers to see whether or not the method is justified and humane. Currently there are over 58 countries that use this method of punishment including the United States and Japan (Parks). The problem that the United States faces when using this method is whether or not they can convince their citizens that this method is allowed by the Constitution. In the United States the death penalty has been used since the 17th century and …show more content…
"The death penalty in the United States has never been anything but an abomination—a grotesque, uncivilized, overwhelmingly racist affront to the very idea of justice” (Parks). According to “Capital Punishment” the main reason that minorities or mentally ill people go directly to the death penalty is because they can not afford a good attorney. But also in this book it states that “Of the percent of whites and blacks convicted there is more whites that have their trial carried out”(Williams 39),that shows that statistically racial discrimination is not prevalent in this method (Williams 124). Williams also said that 55 percent of the people that were executed by the death penalty were white and 43 percent of the people were black. In 1990 and in 1994 the House of Representatives presented that the racial discrimination did not exist and that there was no evidence that proved that convicts are killed based on their race. Later in 2011 there was a study conducted that showed from 1984 to 2010 six blacks were executed for the murder of whites and only one white was executed for killing blacks in North Carolina. But this is just a study from North Carolina