Capital punishment was supposed to be a punishment in which the justice system puts to death the most malevolent criminals. Capital punishment was supposed to work as deterrence for crimes. It was supposed to scare criminals so that they do not kill or committee heinous crimes, if they do so the punishment will be death by the state. Not only has capital punishment not worked as deterrence for criminals, capital punishment shows to have a racial bias in convicting criminals. Too much tax dollars are given to execute a man when we can just build a prison and t
Let them sit there a rot I a cell. As a society we should demand better from the justice system when it comes to capital punishment. Capital punishment is an ethical issue because as …show more content…
Public opinion has a major impact on policy outcomes in the United States, as Democrats always say “give the people what they want” (Soss, Langbein, Metelko 397). Society did not always support capital punishment, especially in 1966 when a low of 47% of society was in favor of capital punishment (Soss, Langbein, Metelko 397). With the percent of people supporting capital punishment low, the Supreme Court decided to make a decision to abolish capital punishment from the United States in 1972, ruling that capital punishment was cruel and unusual punishment (Ellsworth, Gross 23). The Supreme Court did not make this ruling based off of just society opinion, but the fact that there were states that where killing mentally sick and innocent people. At the time of this ruling by the Supreme Court there were a total of 630 men on death row and all men had their sentence reduced to life without parole. At this time in the justice system, the worst a person could receive as a punishment, no matter how heinous the crime, was life in …show more content…
There is too much wrong doing going on and it affects society greatly. The racial discrimination that goes on I our court rooms when comes to the death penalty should be addressed as there are too many whites getting lesser penalty’s than the ones they deserve. And the society should really think about if capital punishment is acting as deterrence to crimes or is capital punishment just another way to kill people. As this essay has shown that capital punishment if not as effective as society needs it to be because there is more and more homicides every day. In my eyes I believe capital punishment should be abolished across the country and instead of using billions of dollars to execute prisoners the government should build more prisons so that these inmates can spend the rest of their lives in a
Let them sit there a rot I a cell. As a society we should demand better from the justice system when it comes to capital punishment. Capital punishment is an ethical issue because as …show more content…
Public opinion has a major impact on policy outcomes in the United States, as Democrats always say “give the people what they want” (Soss, Langbein, Metelko 397). Society did not always support capital punishment, especially in 1966 when a low of 47% of society was in favor of capital punishment (Soss, Langbein, Metelko 397). With the percent of people supporting capital punishment low, the Supreme Court decided to make a decision to abolish capital punishment from the United States in 1972, ruling that capital punishment was cruel and unusual punishment (Ellsworth, Gross 23). The Supreme Court did not make this ruling based off of just society opinion, but the fact that there were states that where killing mentally sick and innocent people. At the time of this ruling by the Supreme Court there were a total of 630 men on death row and all men had their sentence reduced to life without parole. At this time in the justice system, the worst a person could receive as a punishment, no matter how heinous the crime, was life in …show more content…
There is too much wrong doing going on and it affects society greatly. The racial discrimination that goes on I our court rooms when comes to the death penalty should be addressed as there are too many whites getting lesser penalty’s than the ones they deserve. And the society should really think about if capital punishment is acting as deterrence to crimes or is capital punishment just another way to kill people. As this essay has shown that capital punishment if not as effective as society needs it to be because there is more and more homicides every day. In my eyes I believe capital punishment should be abolished across the country and instead of using billions of dollars to execute prisoners the government should build more prisons so that these inmates can spend the rest of their lives in a