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Killing murderers may sound like the easiest way out of the problem. That is not exactly the truth, it brings more problems because capital punishment is expensive. The book Just Revenge: Cost and Consequences of the Death Penalty by Mark Costanzo states how expensive it is to give a prisoner the death penalty. Just to keep a prisoner in life imprisonment without parole (LWOP) is from $750,000 to $1.1 million per prisoner (Costanzo, pg. 60). Although it may seem expensive, keeping the prisoners…

The application of the death penalty as a form of punishment for various capital offences has been a matter of debate for many years. In this essay, I will concentrate on murder convicts and argue that the death penalty is non-excessive on the grounds of retributivism and general deterrence. This form of punishment is in line with the concept of proportionality as the criminal deserves to be punished in proportion to the severity of the crime and the marginal deterrence produced is also…

257497 “To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.” This quote is from Desmond Tutu, and speaks the absolute truth. The ideal that execution is the answer on how to deal with murderers is antiquated and extreme. Abolishing the death penalty is the wisest decision Americans can make due to its biased nature and costliness. Some perks are included with the death penalty, those perks being that it eases overpopulation in prisons, deters some premeditated crimes, and provides…

Mental Illness – A handful of states have tried passing laws similar to each other to ban executing individuals with a diagnosed mental illness. The states who were able to successfully ban the death penalty from individuals who suffer with mental illnesses, argued that these individuals are not aware of what they are capable of, or know what the consequences would be. Many individuals who have been executed under the death penalty have experienced hallucinations, or has suffered with…

All around the world, many convicts are being slaughtered in the name of sweet justice by the means of the death penalty. This law is very controversial which should not be effectively active in Belize. Countless debates and research are brought in different countries and nations on the whether to approve or disapprove such a law. Deep consideration should be focused to this issue because of the consequences that affect the community. This law gives ultimate right to the authorities to end the…

Imagine an individual being convicted of a crime, and sentenced to death by lethal injection, and then years later it is discovered that he/she was unfortunately wrongly convicted and killed. Can a civilized society allow even a small chance of something like this happening? In the belief and hope of the great good, no. However, in recent…

represents the death penalty being abolished in practice lastly the maroon still has the death penalty but only for certain offences. CRUELTY- Me It is true that cruelty should not be legally tolerated and the 5 methods, Lethal injection, shooting,…

(FiveThirtyEight.com) 3 out of 100 executions have had “departures from the protocol of killing someone sentenced to death.” Although rare, there is a chance that someone being executed could experience a painful or drawn-out death due to the lethal injection. This means that by receiving life in prison, the criminal is eliminating the, albeit very small, risk of being apart of a mismanaged execution. The disclaimer of the death penalty should read something like: Has the chance of being the one…

The death penalty should not be legal because it does not deter crime. According to Michael Radelet and Traci Lacock, a professor and a student of Sociology at University of Colorado-Boulder, a 2008 survey showed that 88% of U.S. leading criminologists believe that capital punishment does not deter crime (501) and that less than ten percent of criminologists think that the death penalty is a more effective deterrent than LWOP (503). In fact, not only do experts believe capital punishment does…

On April 15, 1985 an essay written by Edward I. Koch was published in a magazine called the New Republic. Mr. Koch title his essay “Death and Justice: How Capital Punishment Affirms Life”. In the essay the author explains why he continues to support the death penalty even after hearing and analyzing the opinions and adverse points of views against capital punishment. Mr. Koch begins by stating that even if others believe that the death penalty is cruel, it is actually done more humane and…