Kennedy Vs Louisiana

Capital punishment is the legally authorized killing of someone as a punishment. Does capital punishment deter crimes? I strongly believe capital punishment does not deter crime. On June 25, 2008, Kennedy vs. Louisiana, case went to the U.S Supreme Court. The Kennedy vs. Louisiana case is informing, Petitioner Patrick Kennedy was convicted and sentenced to death in Louisiana for the rape of his 8 year old step daughter. Louisiana state statute authorized capital punishment for the rape of a child under 12 years of age. Patrick Kennedy did have capital punishment deal with him, but that does not mean that it stops other people from doing the same thing. That was one example of capital punishment. Overall, I firmly believe that capital punishment does not deter crime.
These are the three main points to support my opinion of capital punishment. First, innocent people go to jail or get assassinated over things they didn’t do. Second, when criminals are put into jail, they get out in a certain amount of years, then go back to the crime they did before. Lastly, racial discrimination is everywhere, even in court. Proving a deeper perspective, I will prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that capital punishment does not deter crime.
When I say innocent people go to jail or get assassinated over things they didn’t do, I am trying to say that, it is possible for it to happen. A prime example will be the case of Larry Griffin. Larry was executed in 1995. On June 26, 1980 in St. Louis, Missouri, 19-year-old Quintin Moss was killed in a drive-by shooting while allegedly dealing drugs on a street corner. The conviction was based largely on the testimony from Robert Fitzgerald, a white career criminal, who was at the scene at the time of the murder. He testified that he saw three black men in the car when shots were fired and that Griffin shot the victim through the window of the car with his right hand. This was Griffin’s attorney’s first murder trial and he did not challenge the