Do you think the death penalty deters crime? No, I don’t think the death penalty deters crime very much because it is wrong for a human to take another humans life even if that person killed or did something bad to someone else. Some of the humans can be helped and changed for a better life and that is deserved because that is one way to stop pain that someone has to go through for someone’s wrong doing, death penalty can never be justifiable.
Death penalty does not deter crime this is because if a prisoner is kept in prison for a long time, say 40 years, and then is let out; they are less likely to commit a serious crime.They aren’t likely to want to go back to prison. Some of them learn a lot of things and get experience in the prison. The death penalty not only deters crime but it also prevent crime rate happening.
Furthermore, criminal cases are highly increasing but death penalty is sought as much more highly expensive to investigate, thus much more is need to reduce the crime. Some of the countries in the world does not have the dearth penalty which they have not experience an increase in the number of murders.This idea is that death penalty does not deter crime because such countries have not carried such executions since the past century, yet they have not experience a rise in crime rate, so what they have done, they introduce a value of capital punishment which the deterrence can only work if the punishment is combined with the conviction that the forbidden acts are not illegal and therefore punishable but immoral. (Schabas, 2002).
Apparently certain section of the societies have been desensitized to the point that human life has no value, it is because of the population that nothing will hold deterrent value.The kinds of people who do not actual consider their action and the consequences that one will face. Lack of foresight and morals are not the excuses one may face as a tolerance of crime. Death penalty does not deter crime because it devalues human life and that most of the murders are unplanned and impulsive. Murderers are given chance so as to be changed and to join the community.
Murderer must not be viewed as bad human being; they must be given second chance because they contribute to the society. The death penalty is nothing but revenge.As a civilized society, death penalty should be totally be abolished and criminals rehabilitated or permanently incarcerated. In a state or its economic has nothing to do with decision of death penalty because it is immoral and evil.
Murderers are not support to be killed by law, but hopefully a state can get strictly punishment for it. Statistically shows that death penalty is not a deterrent to violent crime. If the death penalty is an effective deterrent, then it must be equally true that those on death row also pondered the death penalty prior to committing their crimes and they thought it is worth for them to commit in other crime.No one commits a crime is stupid or desperate, some consequences leads them, before they act.
if an innocent in the first place commits a crime and follow by second crime, innocent person supposed to be arrested and convicted on false evidence, second crime said innocent person killed, thus law should take its course better than judges for responsible for the wrong person being executed by doing crime. By this, if we’re going to execute criminals, let’s be absolutely sure for it. ( Banner,2002). Is death penalty fairly and equally applied?I do not think that death penalty is fairly and equally applied because it is a capital punishment that violent the human rights and the constitutions. In most cases of murder, there have been complaints and evidence showing that courts have been really biased and unfairly in the manner in which they sentence some offenders to prisons and others to death. The Supreme Court has relied on racial discrimination ruling that death penalty is unconstitutional.
In the United States, the nation’s death rows have a large population of African Americans.Over the past years, black offenders have been more sentenced to death penalty for crimes that do not require execution, as compared to white offenders. During the 1930’s black offenders were usually executed more than the white offenders without having their conviction reviewed by any higher court. Socio-economic and sex have been used as decisive factors to determine who gets the death sentence. People from minority groups are more often sentenced to execution than other criminal offenders.
This has also resulted to discrimination against the poor with the minority classes falling in this category.Most of the criminal offenders on death row are poor and thus could not afford to hire a lawyer to represent them during their trial. Common factors that are established among death-row populations are lack of legal representation at trial, poverty, and lack of strong social roots in the community. In the American criminal justice system discretion is unavoidable. However, in many murder cases, discretion has been used unjustly to mark for death the poor, members of the racial minorities, the uneducated and the despised.Death penalty is cruel, unusual and shows lack of respect for human life.
Death penalty is unfairly applied because it denies the due process of law by depriving an individual the benefits of new evidence or new law that might reverse the conviction. Death penalty violates the constitutional right that establishes equal protection of the laws for everyone. It is unequally applied because it is imposed disproportionately on offenders who are uneducated, poor and people of color. The real racism of death penalty applied according to the race of the victim.Usually when the race of the victim is white, then the offender has a higher likelihood of receiving a death sentence.
When death penalty is applied based on racial and social class discrimination, and then innocent victims are more likely to be executed unjustly while the real perpetrators remain free. Most defendants in capital cases cannot afford their own lawyers, thus the death penalty cannot be applied fairly. Therefore, I believe death penalty should not be used. ( Coughlin, 2004).
