Analysis: The Death Penalty

The Death Penalty Between the years 1608 to 2002, 239 US prisoners were executed brutally in inhumane ways due to the death penalty. 143 were shot to death, 66 burned, 15 died because they were hung by chains, 14 bludgeoned or broken on a wheel, and finally one was crushed by two heavy objects. This shows that the death penalty is not a way to rid evil from the United States by enforcing the consequences, but it is just a overly complicated, modern representation of the old saying, “an eye for an eye,” since most death penalty cases contain murder or something similar. These types of executions that the death penalty carry out are not helping protect or even making the citizens feel safe. In fact, the act of brutal executions that were
Many religions and groups of people believe that life, even the life of a murderer, is precious, because when someone dies, life cannot be returned or replenished back to that person. The ironic thing about the death penalty in a case where the defendant is a murderer, is that to enforce the fact that murder is wrong, the government chooses to technically murder the murderer, so that law and order can be upholded. Instead of securing the protection of order throughout the country like what the death penalty is supposed to do, it might do the opposite. A Vatican spokesperson named Reverend Federico Lombardi stated, “The killing of a guilty party is not the way to reconstruct justice and reconcile society. On the contrary, there is a risk that it will feed a spirit of vendetta and sow new violence." This quote explains that when someone is executed, there may be an opposite effect on society that plants a seed of destruction that will renew the violence that the US government was trying to stop, hence creating the one thing that they were trying to
After the offender is convicted of the death penalty, the path to execution may take years and can last decades. This is because the judicial system of the US makes the process long and complex, since the result is irreversible and once done, cannot be altered. All death penalty cases must have mandatory reviews that makes sure that the death penalty is being applied right and to the correct person. During this period of time, the victim’s family have endured multiple appeals and press coverage which may leave relatives of the victim traumatized for the rest of their lives because they are constantly reminded of the details of the dramatic incident. In 1980, Debbie Regala, a Washington Senator from 2001 to 2012 according to Women in the Legislature, lost a family member to murder. Later in 2012, she spoke with others at a press conference to repeal the death penalty. Regala said that, the death penalty is a broken system that fails to offer closure and does not lessen crime. This shows that the death penalty does not help in any way. Some of the problems of the death penalty can range from financial to moral reasons that make the death penalty unfavorable among the opposers of the death