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Death Penalty Helps Keeps the Streets Safe
Steven Bochniewicz
Professor Yongue
English-121-106
November 22, 2003
Steven Bochniewicz
Professor Yongue
English-121-106
November 22, 2003
Death Penalty Helps Keeps the Streets Safe
The death penalty helps create a safe environment, free of violent criminals. The death penalty has gone threw several reforms over the last 100 years. With the advancement of technology, the death sentence has become virtually painless. Many states have abolished the death penalty while others have refrained from executed criminals. Twelve states, including the District of Columbia, have abolished the death penalty. Six other states have not executed anyone since 1976 (DPIC, 2003). DNA evidence has greatly helped decrease the number of innocent people convicted and sentenced to death. Since 1976, there have been 879-recorded executions (DPIC, 2003). The death penalty commonly referred too as capital punishment, usual gets treated as harsh executions of criminals. Two major views to the death penalty, for and against it. The death penalty helps keep harmful criminals off the street. The expenses of execution only create more costs then if sentenced to life. Death penalty, with the support of the public, has the potential to help our society and keep dangerous criminals off our streets.
Many criminals who receive the death penalty later have it over turned. These criminals along with other criminals put on life sentences later get out on probation, only later to return to prison for committing another violent crime. Most of the criminals on death row or in jail for life have committed multiple violent crimes. A large percentage of these criminals committed another offense after they had be let out on probation after being, so called “rehabilitated” or deemed fit to return to society. If this happens in such large percentages of the case, how is considered an effective method? Obviously, the system is flawed.
The death penalty is a strong deterrent. It is directed at the most heinous and ruthless killers. It also shows the serious nature of killing and the ways our society will deal with it. We value life as being a gift that we should cherish and never give up, and yet we can let other people get away with taking away this gift, saying we can do nothing about it. Without the death penalty, we just are letting them say kill our loved ones and we will just throw you in jail. Many do not fear jail, and others even welcome it.
With the death penalty undergoing so many changes with its method of execution, there are new less painful methods. More recently, lethal injection has become the execution of choice because of it is a quick and painless death. Many supporters of the death penalty see the execution as the retribution for the victim, the more heinous the crime the more painful the execution. The death penalty gives many a sense of justice not received with a life sentence or any kind of jail sentence. Many of the opposing views do not reason at how condemning these people to death by jail cell more acceptable then execution.
Many opposing views to the death penalty bring up the cost issue. The average cost of an inmate on death row is 2 million per case, much more then a life sentence. Running facilities used to execute people can be used to run ones that will hold other convicts.
Many points are about the budget but the underlying issues are the use of funding. The Miranda rights give people to the rights to a free attorney. The convicts cost the state thousands of dollars in courts and related fees. Many convicts are on death row for years long before an execution date is set. We pay for our lives as well as the life of our loved ones. We pay to eat, sleep, and be safe, and we even pay the government to keep us safe. If the money is spent on, keeping the people who threaten that safety and even take the lives that we pay so dearly for.
The death penalty is another ongoing debate just like many others. Looking at a trial from your own point of view, and affected very little by the outcome of a trial of a man or woman. For an example lets make up a trial against a woman who murdered, while on parole for another case of attempted murder, a six-year olds parents. When you look at this trial not from your view, but the view of the little girl, she sees her entire life in ruins. She has no more family, lost two great idols in her life. Ones that would help her grow into a respectable woman. That murder has taken away everything, her family, her home, her future. The rest of her life will be spend living from foster home to foster home and school to school, living a hard life that no child should have to endure. That little girl did not get a choice for her parents did not get to live or die, should her parent’s killer get a choice to live or die.
References
Bidinotto, R. J. (1997, May). Capital Punishment is Moral. Capital Punishment. Retrieved November 20, 2003, from Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center- HCC Database
Death Penalty Information Center. (2003, November 05). Retrieved November 20, 2003, from http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org
Kavanaugh, J. (1997, July 19). Capital Punishment is Unjust. Problems of Death. Retrieved November 21, 2003, from Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center- HCC Database
Nuechterlein, J. (1998, April). Capital Punishment Deserves Cautious Support. Capital Punishment. Retrieved November 21, 2003, from Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center- HCC Database
Pataki, G. E. (1997, March). Capital Punishment is a Deterrent. Capital Punishment. Retrieved November 20, 2003, from Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center- HCC Database
Will, G. F. (2003, October 30). Reason and Death. The Washington Post. Retrieved November 20, 2003, from http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=17&did=766
Death Penalty Helps Keeps the Streets Safe
Steven Bochniewicz
Professor Yongue
English-121-106
November 22, 2003
Steven Bochniewicz
Professor Yongue
English-121-106
November 22, 2003
Death Penalty Helps Keeps the Streets Safe
The death penalty helps create a safe environment, free of violent criminals. The death penalty has gone threw several reforms over the last 100 years. With the advancement of technology, the death sentence has become virtually painless. Many states have abolished the death penalty while others have refrained from executed criminals. Twelve states, including the District of Columbia, have abolished the death penalty. Six other states have not executed anyone since 1976 (DPIC, 2003). DNA evidence has greatly helped decrease the number of innocent people convicted and sentenced to death. Since 1976, there have been 879-recorded executions (DPIC, 2003). The death penalty commonly referred too as capital punishment, usual gets treated as harsh executions of criminals. Two major views to the death penalty, for and against it. The death penalty helps keep harmful criminals off the street. The expenses of execution only create more costs then if sentenced to life. Death penalty, with the support of the public, has the potential to help our society and keep dangerous criminals off our streets.
Many criminals who receive the death penalty later have it over turned. These criminals along with other criminals put on life sentences later get out on probation, only later to return to prison for committing another violent crime. Most of the criminals on death row or in jail for life have committed multiple violent crimes. A large percentage of these criminals committed another offense after they had be let out on probation after being, so called “rehabilitated” or deemed fit to return to society. If this happens in such large percentages of the case, how is considered an effective method? Obviously, the system is flawed.
The death penalty is a strong deterrent. It is directed at the most heinous and ruthless killers. It also shows the serious nature of killing and the ways our society will deal with it. We value life as being a gift that we should cherish and never give up, and yet we can let other people get away with taking away this gift, saying we can do nothing about it. Without the death penalty, we just are letting them say kill our loved ones and we will just throw you in jail. Many do not fear jail, and others even welcome it.
With the death penalty undergoing so many changes with its method of execution, there are new less painful methods. More recently, lethal injection has become the execution of choice because of it is a quick and painless death. Many supporters of the death penalty see the execution as the retribution for the victim, the more heinous the crime the more painful the execution. The death penalty gives many a sense of justice not received with a life sentence or any kind of jail sentence. Many of the opposing views do not reason at how condemning these people to death by jail cell more acceptable then execution.
Many opposing views to the death penalty bring up the cost issue. The average cost of an inmate on death row is 2 million per case, much more then a life sentence. Running facilities used to execute people can be used to run ones that will hold other convicts.
Many points are about the budget but the underlying issues are the use of funding. The Miranda rights give people to the rights to a free attorney. The convicts cost the state thousands of dollars in courts and related fees. Many convicts are on death row for years long before an execution date is set. We pay for our lives as well as the life of our loved ones. We pay to eat, sleep, and be safe, and we even pay the government to keep us safe. If the money is spent on, keeping the people who threaten that safety and even take the lives that we pay so dearly for.
The death penalty is another ongoing debate just like many others. Looking at a trial from your own point of view, and affected very little by the outcome of a trial of a man or woman. For an example lets make up a trial against a woman who murdered, while on parole for another case of attempted murder, a six-year olds parents. When you look at this trial not from your view, but the view of the little girl, she sees her entire life in ruins. She has no more family, lost two great idols in her life. Ones that would help her grow into a respectable woman. That murder has taken away everything, her family, her home, her future. The rest of her life will be spend living from foster home to foster home and school to school, living a hard life that no child should have to endure. That little girl did not get a choice for her parents did not get to live or die, should her parent’s killer get a choice to live or die.
References
Bidinotto, R. J. (1997, May). Capital Punishment is Moral. Capital Punishment. Retrieved November 20, 2003, from Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center- HCC Database
Death Penalty Information Center. (2003, November 05). Retrieved November 20, 2003, from http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org
Kavanaugh, J. (1997, July 19). Capital Punishment is Unjust. Problems of Death. Retrieved November 21, 2003, from Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center- HCC Database
Nuechterlein, J. (1998, April). Capital Punishment Deserves Cautious Support. Capital Punishment. Retrieved November 21, 2003, from Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center- HCC Database
Pataki, G. E. (1997, March). Capital Punishment is a Deterrent. Capital Punishment. Retrieved November 20, 2003, from Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center- HCC Database
Will, G. F. (2003, October 30). Reason and Death. The Washington Post. Retrieved November 20, 2003, from http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=17&did=766