Why the death penalty should be abolished
As of 1976 more than 1,000 innocent people have been executed. Since 1973, 144 people have been exonerated. As a percentage of all death sentences, that’s just 1.6 percent, but if the innocence rate is 4.1 percent, more than twice the rate of exoneration: the study shows what most people assumed. An untold number of innocent people have been executed. Furthermore those wrongfully sentenced are likely to be killed therefore until we can find a perfected way to punish the criminals of the world without killing them the death penalty should be abolished. Capital punishment does not deter crime rates in any scenario. Of all the arguments in favor of capital punishment, the one that seems to have the most staying power is the idea that it is a deterrent to future crime in the possibility of …show more content…
Now this question becomes a hot topic not only in the news but in our normal lives as well. There are many people who want to abolish the death penalty. These people believe we shouldn 't ignore the human right of a criminal, most developed countries have already abolished the use of the death penalty. People can agree or disagree with this issue. Most people believe all human beings have the right to live, and that taking away someone 's life is cruel and that only God should have the right to decide who lives or dies. But what about the victims of the murderer don’t they have the right to live as well. These criminals must have done something terrible to have been sentenced to the death penalty. Second, most criminals might not even stay in prison they could get an early parole because of good behavior and who’s to say they won’t do the same thing again. According to the research criminals who are released from prison and commit a crime again is 44%, and there is a problem that some criminals stay in prison for too long and can’t adjust to new
As of 1976 more than 1,000 innocent people have been executed. Since 1973, 144 people have been exonerated. As a percentage of all death sentences, that’s just 1.6 percent, but if the innocence rate is 4.1 percent, more than twice the rate of exoneration: the study shows what most people assumed. An untold number of innocent people have been executed. Furthermore those wrongfully sentenced are likely to be killed therefore until we can find a perfected way to punish the criminals of the world without killing them the death penalty should be abolished. Capital punishment does not deter crime rates in any scenario. Of all the arguments in favor of capital punishment, the one that seems to have the most staying power is the idea that it is a deterrent to future crime in the possibility of …show more content…
Now this question becomes a hot topic not only in the news but in our normal lives as well. There are many people who want to abolish the death penalty. These people believe we shouldn 't ignore the human right of a criminal, most developed countries have already abolished the use of the death penalty. People can agree or disagree with this issue. Most people believe all human beings have the right to live, and that taking away someone 's life is cruel and that only God should have the right to decide who lives or dies. But what about the victims of the murderer don’t they have the right to live as well. These criminals must have done something terrible to have been sentenced to the death penalty. Second, most criminals might not even stay in prison they could get an early parole because of good behavior and who’s to say they won’t do the same thing again. According to the research criminals who are released from prison and commit a crime again is 44%, and there is a problem that some criminals stay in prison for too long and can’t adjust to new