Pros And Cons Of The Death Penalty
The Death Penalty:
The Headquarters of Controversy The death penalty is one of the most controversial topics of modern day. There are many people on both sides of the fence in this heated debate. I, personally, am pro death penalty for many reasons. The death penalty is a dire part of the U.S. criminal justice system that should not be extinguished. There is irrefutable proof on why we need the death penalty. The problem with the death penalty is it needs to be reformed. Death penalty reform is the sine qua non of an effective compromise. 35 of 36 of the states that allow the death penalty, and the U.S. government, use lethal injection as their primary method. Lethal injection euthanizes the convicted felons. Many argue that this …show more content…
I feel that those convicted of a crime without scientific or forensic proof should just receive life without parole. Leaving them on death row costs tax payers more money than having them in prison for life. Many criminals still waiting on death row are said to have committed crimes back as far back as the 70’s. The fact that these people committed these crimes is still disputable. Criminals of the 21 century who are on death row were found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt with the assistance of physical and forensic evidence. These criminals should remain on death row. The time it takes from being on death row to being executed it to long. These people should receive few appeals, if any, and then be executed. We leave them waiting for years upon years wasting tax payers’ dollars. The California death penalty system costs taxpayers $114 million per year beyond the costs of keeping convicts locked up for life. (L.A. Times, March 6, 2005.) We can drastically decrease this level of wasted tax revenue by going through with these reforms. The relationship between race and the death penalty must also be changed. In 96% of the states where there have been reviews of race and the death penalty, there was a pattern of either race-of-victim or race-of-defendant discrimination, or both. (Prof. David Baldus report to the ABA, 1998). Only 15 white people have been executed for crimes involving black
The Headquarters of Controversy The death penalty is one of the most controversial topics of modern day. There are many people on both sides of the fence in this heated debate. I, personally, am pro death penalty for many reasons. The death penalty is a dire part of the U.S. criminal justice system that should not be extinguished. There is irrefutable proof on why we need the death penalty. The problem with the death penalty is it needs to be reformed. Death penalty reform is the sine qua non of an effective compromise. 35 of 36 of the states that allow the death penalty, and the U.S. government, use lethal injection as their primary method. Lethal injection euthanizes the convicted felons. Many argue that this …show more content…
I feel that those convicted of a crime without scientific or forensic proof should just receive life without parole. Leaving them on death row costs tax payers more money than having them in prison for life. Many criminals still waiting on death row are said to have committed crimes back as far back as the 70’s. The fact that these people committed these crimes is still disputable. Criminals of the 21 century who are on death row were found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt with the assistance of physical and forensic evidence. These criminals should remain on death row. The time it takes from being on death row to being executed it to long. These people should receive few appeals, if any, and then be executed. We leave them waiting for years upon years wasting tax payers’ dollars. The California death penalty system costs taxpayers $114 million per year beyond the costs of keeping convicts locked up for life. (L.A. Times, March 6, 2005.) We can drastically decrease this level of wasted tax revenue by going through with these reforms. The relationship between race and the death penalty must also be changed. In 96% of the states where there have been reviews of race and the death penalty, there was a pattern of either race-of-victim or race-of-defendant discrimination, or both. (Prof. David Baldus report to the ABA, 1998). Only 15 white people have been executed for crimes involving black