Hisotry speaks of many arguments about the death penalty. Many people support the death penalty, while others fight for the death penalty to be abolished. There are also those certain few who support it only in extreme circumstances. The death penalty has such a impact that we could never see, but giving a world without it im sure it would be more evident that nothing was being done to keep people that can do unspeakable things on this earth. Where the evidence is so substantual and without a doubt the accused is guilty of the most heinous crimes. why should these people be able to be cared for and nurtered in are correctional systems. Were we the tax payers have a huge invesment in just to protect the ones we love. Why would anyone want to protect a person who could do such a unspeakable crime, and above all else why do some feel they have an opinion as if they even know what its like to loose a loved one to someone this horriable. I will never understand protecting the guilty when we need to protect the inoccent.
Some people who support the death penalty say it should only be used as a deterrent for future criminals. To keep people who are capable of doing the crime to think twice before acting. To a degree I could say this works but as a whole I disagree with this statement, because criminals do not think of the consequences of their actions when they are committing a crime, nor do they care. Amnesty International, which opposes the death penalty, reports that scientific studies have not produced any conclusive evidence showing that capital punishment is a deterrent for future crimes to be committed. I believe the only deterrent for a murderer to not commit a crime again would to isure the safty of others by terminating his life.
People who are opposed to the death penalty say that capital punishment condemns the innocent to death. According Amendment V in the United States Bill of Rights, “No person shall be held to answer for a capital crime, or otherwise infamous crime unless on a presentment of an indictment of a grand jury” (except in military cases). While it is true that a few innocent people have have died because they were falsely accused, convicted and executed unfairly, it is extremely rare that this type of situation would happen. By the time that all appeals are exhausted. Most attorneys will find new evidence to support alleged criminal’s innocence from examining the case multiple times.
According Amendment V in the United States Bill of Rights, “No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Even with this amendment in place many people question the constitutionality of capital punishment because of Amendment VIII which states, “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” And still its adversaries have called capital punishment cruel and unusual. Even though every messure is taken into place to try and prevent the inoccent from slipping through.
Concerning the morality of capital punishment. As a religious person my self I look to the Bible for our answers on the morality of capital punishment. God instituted capital punishment in the book of Leviticus 24:17 and Leviticus 24:20-21. Verse 17 of Leviticus 24 says, “And he that killeth any man shall surely be put to death.” Verses 20 and 21 of Leviticus 24 say, “Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.” “And he that killeth a beast, he