Capital Punishment
"Eye for an Eye" and "Tooth for a Tooth"
remains to be two of the 282
laws of justice that Hammurabi established. I am
headed towards the topic of
Capital Punishment. I am here to support Capital
Punishment, and I believe that
it has many positive effects to our society.
One of the more common procedures
in our country is the Death Penalty. the
death penalty is extraordinarily rare.
Since 1967, there has been one
execution for every 1600 murders, or 0.06%. There
have been approximately
560,000 murders and 358 executions from 1967-1996 FBI's
Uniform Crime
Report (UCR) & Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). As a
supporter of
Capital Punishment, putting a murderer to death row deters crime,
efficiently
utilizes the public’s money, and is an equal retaliation. Body I
personally
believe that execution is an effective deterrent of crime. To support
this
argument, I think that if a person knows how fast you can be put to death
by
committing a crime, it will make them fully aware of their consequences
in
doing such crime. Although this doesn’t stand for all people, I can say
that
it is an educational statement that many believe to be true. For all the
people
that are rational in the thought, the punishment of death seems to be
a likely
deterrent. Safety is another reason why I am fore Capital
Punishment. It
guarantees the society that the convicted murderer will never
be out to commit
another crime, which takes away a persons fear for their
life from that one
person. Statistics by Dr. Isaac Ehrlich at the University
of Chicago claimed
that capital punishment is indeed a deterrent. His
research has shown that if
the death penalty is used in a consistent way, it
may deter as many as 8
murderers for every execution carried out. Also, Life
Imprisonment most of the
time only gives the prisoner one last chance to get
out of the punishment,
because prisoners are continually growing in number
which leads to overcrowded
jail facilities. This allows the criminals to have
an early parole than their
sentence should have been which is totally wrong.
When a person’s minds intent
is to kill someone, they should suffer and be
executed. The opponents that are
against Capital Punishment claims that a
person executed could be innocent.
While this could be true, and does
happen, as a Christian, I believe that God
will be the last person to make
the final decision and judgment upon who is
guilty or not. He will reconsider
the fact of going to hell or heaven. If you
did not commit the crime, he will
be the one to make the final decision. And
that’s the way a true Christian
should view that issue. If you are not a
believer, there are still many
safeguards guaranteeing protection of the rights
of those facing the death
penalty. Some Safe Guards: 1) Capital punishment may
be imposed only when
guilt is determined by clear and convincing evidence
leaving no room for an
alternative explanation of the facts. 2) Anyone sentenced
to death shall
receive the right to appeal to a court of higher jurisdiction 3)
Anyone
sentenced to death shall have the right to seek pardon 4) Persons
below
eighteen years of a age, pregnant women , new mothers or persons who
have become
insane shall not be sentenced to death Capital Punishment, such
as the death
penalty, does in fact save money. Most people believe that it
costs more to
execute murderers than to imprison them for life, because of
the cost of court
appeals, and the time that it takes to carry out the death
sentence procedure.
But studies show that over time, Life Imprisonment
costs more money overall than
Life imprisonment does. JFA estimates that
Life with out parole Costs 1.2-3.6
million more dollars than equivalent death
penalty cases. There is defiantly no
question that the up front costs of the
death penalty are much more higher than
for equivalent LWOP cases. There also
appears to be no question that, over time,
equivalent LWOP cases are much
more expensive - from $1.2 to $3.6 million - than
death penalty cases.
Capital Punishment is also an equivalent form of
punishment. When a person
murders a person, they should be ready to have their
life taken. The victim
suffers more than the murderer on death row, because the
victim deserved none
of the suffering inflicted. The death of a murdered victim
has a greater
impact on their family, friends, and loved ones. For their loved
one got
murdered for unknown reasons. When a killer is executed, he is suffering
the
consequences upon what he did. It is only fair to punish someone equally
upon
what they did.
Bibliography
Us Vital Statistics Abstract, 1994,
and C.P. 1995 BJS 1996 Death
Penalty-American Civil Liberties Union