The Failure Of The Death Penalty

failed him when they put together a strangely homogenous jury to be a part of the case. The system left Mr. Garner and his family with no hope. The failure of the justice system brought a lot of shock to the public when they made their decision. When the jury decided not to indent white police officer Daniel Pantaleo followed by two others officers who was responsible for putting Mr. Garner in an illegal chokehold, resulting to the death of Eric Garner to death on video footage. That then leaves a bad taste in the mouth of others, how much proof and evidence does a person need to show when they are in the wrong. Mr. Michael Brown was not treated any differently than the rest of those cases. It has often then been said that a system cannot fail those who it was never meant to protect. Mr. Brown suffered and was left in the middle of the street for hours and hours. The result of killing someone does not only affect them, but the variety of individuals who they are now leaving behind. The killing of others especially when it comes from the ones who we …show more content…
However; the death penalty doesn’t deters crimes because criminals no matter what their punishments are, will always commit horrible crimes. There is no credible evidence that the death penalty deters crime more effectively than long terms of imprisonment. It has been proven that states with death penalty laws do not have lower crime rates or murder rates than states without such laws. The death penalty has no deterrent effect. Huffington Post informed us that from 1993 to 2004, more than thirty-five percent of death row inmates were spared from capital punishment, but remained incarcerated, the study said. If inmates no longer facing execution received the same kind of defense as those on death row, the authors concluded that the percentage of exonerations would surge (McLaughlin,