The Death Penalty
This time and day any controversial topic is a very sensitive topic to speak on. People are natural emotional creatures making it difficult to disagree or to have your own opinions. We are all so quick to blame society we forget society isn’t just one individual. Statements like “Society has taught us” “Society makes us believe” are statements heard on a daily basis. We are all society. We believe what we want to believe. We all as a community need to understand that people are born with their own mindsets and as time goes on opinions will change. The moment you let “society” form your thoughts and opinions, is the moment you will forever lose your voice. Subjects that used to be as plain as black and white, for example, the death penalty, can cause quite a dilemma. The death penalty is a capital punishment …show more content…
A crime was committed and a punishment was established, very plain and simple. It was not questioned nor was it objected. A major difference of times then and times now is a number of people around while these punishments were being put in place. The roughly estimated world population in the 1490’s, the time that King Henry VIII was in reign, was about 500 million. Compare that number to our world population now, which is an estimated 7 billion as of March 2012. The difference is 6 billion, 5 hundred million people on the planet. It is so much easier to make a mistake now a day then it was thousands of years ago. A study by C. Ronald Huff, Arye Rattner, and the late Edward Sagarin suggests that of 1,993,880 convictions, 0.5 were wrongfully convicted, that is about 9,969 innocent people convicted for crimes they didn’t commit, including murder, rape, robbery and many more. If those numbers are for your common criminals, how many innocent people have we murdered? A mistake that we cannot come back
This time and day any controversial topic is a very sensitive topic to speak on. People are natural emotional creatures making it difficult to disagree or to have your own opinions. We are all so quick to blame society we forget society isn’t just one individual. Statements like “Society has taught us” “Society makes us believe” are statements heard on a daily basis. We are all society. We believe what we want to believe. We all as a community need to understand that people are born with their own mindsets and as time goes on opinions will change. The moment you let “society” form your thoughts and opinions, is the moment you will forever lose your voice. Subjects that used to be as plain as black and white, for example, the death penalty, can cause quite a dilemma. The death penalty is a capital punishment …show more content…
A crime was committed and a punishment was established, very plain and simple. It was not questioned nor was it objected. A major difference of times then and times now is a number of people around while these punishments were being put in place. The roughly estimated world population in the 1490’s, the time that King Henry VIII was in reign, was about 500 million. Compare that number to our world population now, which is an estimated 7 billion as of March 2012. The difference is 6 billion, 5 hundred million people on the planet. It is so much easier to make a mistake now a day then it was thousands of years ago. A study by C. Ronald Huff, Arye Rattner, and the late Edward Sagarin suggests that of 1,993,880 convictions, 0.5 were wrongfully convicted, that is about 9,969 innocent people convicted for crimes they didn’t commit, including murder, rape, robbery and many more. If those numbers are for your common criminals, how many innocent people have we murdered? A mistake that we cannot come back