Flawed Death Penalty

Capital Punishment The Death Penalty has no place in the modern United States Criminal Justice System. The moral correctness of the government sentencing prisoners to death is a long debated argument. Death penalty supporters may believe that death is a rightful punishment to those who are found guilty of murder, or that the punishment will deter future criminals from committing homicide. Capital punishment is a serious problem facing many innocent Americans, as well as slowing the progression of our nation. Many states have voted to ban the execution of convicted felons. To advance our civilization, the death penalty must be entirely eliminated from our society and way of life, because it is both primitive as well as socially retarding. Capital Punishment is both ethically as well as practically flawed. The United States is the only “nation among western
Although there are studies claiming the their is a correlation of decreased crime rates and the exercise of capital punishment, they are “fundamentally flawed”(Nagin). These studies to not filter out the effects of noncapital punishment, and produce a corrupt result. Also, many studies are based off of unreliable data, which includes, “statistical models that make assumptions that are not credible”(Nagin). In states that have eliminated the death penalty there has been no drastic changes in crime rates. Justice Marshall, of the U.S. Supreme Court, has stated, “In light of the massive amount of evidence before us, I see no alternative but to conclude that capital punishment cannot be justified on the basis of its deterrent effect”(Lamperti). The claim that performing executions will impact the future choices of citizens is continually rejected by, “eighty-eight percent of the country’s top criminologists”(Nagin). The death penalty cannot be validated on the assumption that it serves as an adequate deterrent for