About Motives That Serve The Death Penalty

There are three kinds of motives to serve the death penalty. The U.S. government didn’t have a stable and reliable jail for the longest amount of time in the U.S. for threatening criminals. A province or town prison was only fit for brief stays and country prison wasn’t much better. This different to capital penalty is a actual chance where most people think that being in a solitary cell for your life is a dreadful penalty. David Von Drehle states that, “Capital punishment is an expression of the principle that certain extreme boundaries cannot be crossed—that some crimes are so terrible that death is the only punishment sufficient to balance the scales.” Meaning some crimes that prisoners execute may be so serious where they should go through the death penalty depending on how serious the crime was.

Most of the people that are sentenced to go through the death penalty in America is usually for the people that have commited unforgivable crimes. The capital penalizing structure helps to deter the unforgivable criminals from the short time sentences. Sentencing killers could fail to preserve fairness because when the penalty is staying in jail for a long period of time, it can be unfair to the heinousness of the fault.

Every human being has their own human rights to live a calm life and released from from harm. Criminals like perpetrators who commit crimes such as rape, assault, or murder have no consideration for any humans existence and others belongings. People that commit these crimes and violate someone’s life are brought to court and are expected to pay for their crimes. Someone who is for capital punishment may mention free will while they are given the rights to do stuff in their own free will.

According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Right #3 is the Right to Life. Meaning every human being has the right to life, liberty, and security of a person. Right #9, Ban on Artribary Detention: No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile. Meaning Everyone has the right to liberty and security of person. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest or detention. No one shall be deprived of his liberty except on such grounds and in accordance with such procedure as are established by law.

The Guillotine is an appliance used for a capital punishment. It consists of two vertical posts topped by a crossbeam made with a very sharp knife. It supported with heavy weights and when you let go, the knife goes down which ends up killing the person. Thousands were killed due to this ‘machine’ being the primary punishment when sentenced to death including King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette.

This discourages criminals that are already fulfilling their life sentences in prison from doing more great crimes. When the criminals go out of jail, they are still capable of commiting more crimes and if they for example want to get revenge for something, they are more capable of doing it since they are out of jail.

For example, say if two men were charged with murder and one of the two was electrocuted. The second man turned the table by claiming that he didn’t mean to do it etc. After the execution of the first man, the second man went to prison for 8 years due to killing two people.

Many people may seek and want revenge for their loved ones but there are laws to prevent people from wanting revenge. Although some may support them, Nietzsche’s says don’t become a monster while seeking for a monster. Some may say that killing is the right thing to do but at the same time, people shouldn’t be killing their own kind. No matter how grand the sin is, it isn’t a moral punishment that is meant for people.

Some cases of trials are not done properly and unfortunately sends falsely accused people to jail and can go all the way into going through the death penalty. After going through the death penalty, some people don’t even get a chance to prove their innocence while the real criminals are living their lives. States in the U.S. that have gotten rid of the death penalty shows no difference compared to the states that force the death penalty. This shows that even though people aren’t going through the death penalty, they are the same and there is not clear enough of evidence that claims that they truly deserve it. For example, they can be falsely accused of killing someone etc.

Not all government laws are perfect, nor the judges, the lawyers, etc. Many cases have been revealed to have innocent people are sent to jail and sentenced to crimes that they havent even commited. For example, a man can be accused of raping a woman if the woman were to have the authority and they might have something against that man which can lead to money and bribing people in the court so that they can get what they want with they money they own.

Salem witch trials all started when a group of girls were said that they were possessed by the devil and summoned many women of the witchcraft. Many said that women fall into the devil more than men. Most of the people accused of being witches were women and so were the percentage of the accused people(78% of the accused were women).