CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment

Introduction

The highly contentious topic of capital penalty is seen in today's society as an inhumane pattern of penalty for certain grave offenders. “The death punishment is not one of the 'cruel and odd punishments' prohibited by the Eight Amendment" (Winters 12). Capital penalty has been round since the beginning of time as has the argument surrounding it. There have habitually been pros and cons to the death penalty as have the contentions that proceed with it. The crimes that were deserving of the death penalty have changed over the years but some have stayed the same throughout the centuries. Some persons have said that by allowing the murdering of a criminal, it will only educate other ones that revenge is what capital penalty is all about, instead of glimpsing it as a means to eliminating a hazard lastingly from society. Hopefully this essay will educate the reader on the importance of capital punishment.

This essay will define, describe, analyze and evaluate the ethics of capital punishment. By defining capital punishment the reader will become educated on when it was instituted, and what capital punishment means exactly, in describing capital punishment the reader will become educated on the multiple means in how America deals with its criminals. By analyzing capital punishment, the reader will come to understand that it is ethically acceptable and that it shouldn't be abolished. That, society would suffer if capital punishment was removed from the justice system. Finally, by assessing capital punishment, the book reader will be informed of the writer's opinion on the ethics of capital punishment (Sutherland, 2002).

When capital punishment was functioning in societies round the world, it raised the most contentious attitudes about human rights. Since then, split up opinions have glimpsed the abolishment of the death penalty in most nations round the world. Only eighty-three nations still retain the death penalty. The death punishment is still in use in some states in America but was eradicated in America in 1985 after numerous years of use. The last authorized use of the death punishment in America was in Victoria on February 3 1967. The rates of crimes pledged throughout the time span where the death punishment was active were noted, as were the crime rates when the death punishment was not active. This was done to try to support the use of capital punishment. Whilst the death punishment was in use, there was not significant proof that it decreased the number of homicides in America (Gamberg, 2004). Also, while the death penalty was hard working, the major point of topic that originated was that whether or not it was too farthest to take the life of a serious lawbreaker rather than secure them up for a long period of time. The reason of this is to show the consequences, both affirmative and contradictory of capital penalty on American society. Since, a much broader range of capital punishment was active in other nations, other statistics and demonstrations will be used from those ...