Against Capital Punishment

Against Capital Punishment

Abstract

The purpose of this research paper is to talk about capital punishment and it numerous aspects particularly in the United States. The motive here is to highlight the facts and figures of the latest years about the ratio of capital punishment according to the statistics of the United States. The system of death penalty in the United States is mostly applied in an unjust and unfair manner against people. Moreover, this system is largely dependent on how much money the victim has, race of the victim, skills of their attorneys, and the place where the crime took place. In addition to this, those people are more likely to be executed who are not white, and especially if the victim is someone who is white. Thus, this paper aims to discuss all such aspects that are contributing in giving hype and unfair form to this type of punishment.

Introduction

Public opinion on capital punishment has been researched more thoroughly and for a longer period than perhaps any other crime-prevention issue. Currently, when asked if they support the death penalty for someone convicted of murder, about 70% of Americans say yes. For the past 25 years, support has varied no more than about 5% from this level. At its lowest point, during the mid-1960s, Americans' support for this sanction dropped to less than half. A level of complexity is added to public opinion toward capital punishment when consideration is given to how opinion questions are asked and which portion of the public responds. When life in prison without the possibility of ever being released is explicitly offered as an alternative sentence for people convicted of murder, the portion of the public who still endorse the death penalty is substantially lower.

When opinion is measured more concretely, such as by asking a person would be willing to carry out an execution, far fewer people have a willing to embrace the death penalty. In terms of subgroups of the American population, researchers have found fairly consistently that women and African Americans hold less favorable opinions of capital punishment than men and Whites. Additional evidence speaks to whether the public favors capital punishment as a crime-prevention measure or for other reasons. A third of the American public believes that the death penalty serves to deter others from committing murder. Furthermore, when asked for their reasons for supporting capital punishment, about 10% mention incapacitation. About four in ten Americans say they support it because it is what the offender deserves. Therefore, all the aspects related to Capital Punishment have been discussed in detail.

Discussion

Capital punishment has been a way of punishing individuals since ages. Although there are some nations that have eradicated death penalty from their law, there are still many, which still present the advancing of killing a one-by-one for crime. Capital punishment is widespread in the US, Asian and Middle Eastern countries. Some of the modes of executing criminals are suspending, blasting, electrocution and giving lethal injections (Petrezselyem, books.google.com).

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