Anti Death Penalty Facts

Scientific research and advances provide the justice system with more accurate information that helps decide how to punish criminals—specifically the death penalty. Thirty-one states in the United States allow the death penalty. The United States needs to decide as a whole to enforce the death penalty under special circumstances. Facts provide Americans an understanding on why enforcing capital punishment makes society a safer place. Capital punishment should be implemented in all of the states across the United States. From January 1, 1997 to December 31, 2009, executions took the lives of 1,188 criminals in the United States. Different ways can be used to enforce the capital punishment. Of those executed by the death penalty, 1,016 were executed by lethal injection, 156 by electrocution, 11 by gas chamber, three hung, and two executed firing squad. Capital punishment was created for these three main purposes: there was no available prison that was secure …show more content…
The death penalty is equivalent to a lightning bolt. There are no set requirements on why someone should receive the death penalty. After four decades of tinkering, the United States is still trying to figure this harsh topic (Drehle 15). Inexperienced lawyers are blamed for being a large factor in their defendants sentencing. Attorneys with lack of experience, smaller wages, and more unpaid useless hours of work take the hit for the majority of the sentencing (“Death Penalty Focus: Facts” 2). Again, unstable determined factors play a large roll in the court cases. Recently, a large controversial ‘bias’ decision of the jury is race and gender. The scientific part of the death penalty cases give the defendant or the prosecutor a chance to try to prove innocent or