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However many states in the United States have began phasing out the use of capital punishment, or consorting to alternative, more humane methods of execution. Currently only fifty eight nations of one hundred and ninety five and ninety five have completely abolished the practise, the others unknown, so sixty percent of the world population live in execution countries. In most of these countries, capital punishment is reserved for murder, treason, espionage, rape, adultery, incest, sodomy and military offenses such as desertion, mutiny, insubordination and cowardice. At the start of 2010, at least 17,000 people worldwide were to be sentenced to
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Those who have violated the law, by murder or any capital crime would know the stakes at which they are at if caught by authorities. If the criminal wishes to commit a crime, he or she should take the charges for it. If the death penalty is a sentence then they would have known this at the time of the crime therefore accepting their own fate when they committed the crime.
Death penalty has led to the execution of innocent people. There has been many cases in which innocent people have been convicted of crimes that they have not committed. This happened regularly in the days before DNA testing and advanced crime labs with an arsenal of biological testing devices. The innocent people were sent to their death and cases were brought upon the state by others of these incidents. Some of these cases have led to the abolishment of capital punishment in the state in question.
Capital punishment isn’t justice but revenge and a way to save money for the state. According to the Justice for All organisation, it is estimated that sentence ‘Life without Parole’ costs more than Capital punishment, where Life without Parole costs between three quarters and two-point-two million pounds sterling more than capital punishment cases. It therefore doesn’t save any money and the state is indeed receiving revenge for the
Those who have violated the law, by murder or any capital crime would know the stakes at which they are at if caught by authorities. If the criminal wishes to commit a crime, he or she should take the charges for it. If the death penalty is a sentence then they would have known this at the time of the crime therefore accepting their own fate when they committed the crime.
Death penalty has led to the execution of innocent people. There has been many cases in which innocent people have been convicted of crimes that they have not committed. This happened regularly in the days before DNA testing and advanced crime labs with an arsenal of biological testing devices. The innocent people were sent to their death and cases were brought upon the state by others of these incidents. Some of these cases have led to the abolishment of capital punishment in the state in question.
Capital punishment isn’t justice but revenge and a way to save money for the state. According to the Justice for All organisation, it is estimated that sentence ‘Life without Parole’ costs more than Capital punishment, where Life without Parole costs between three quarters and two-point-two million pounds sterling more than capital punishment cases. It therefore doesn’t save any money and the state is indeed receiving revenge for the