The death penalty, legal in 32 states and in the federal civilian and military legal systems. Illegal in 18 states, just this year Maryland abolished such an act. The death penalty is one of the most argued topics along with abortions and war. No one should have the power to choose FOR a person whether they should/can or cannot die. If someone wants to die or doesn’t want to die, who are you to give them such permission? It’s almost like making yourself G-D over that person, independence is something people like and taking that away will definitely cause problems. According to www.procon.org putting a person in jail who has committed a crime is not only cheaper but is also more of a punishment. “States that have death penalty laws do not have lower crime rates or murder rates than states without such laws. And states that have abolished capital punishment show no significant changes in either crime or murder rates. The death penalty has no deterrent effect.” The ACLU simply stated in an interview about the death penalty.
Though there are many studies that show there is no deterrent effect of the death penalty there is no reliable research to determine whether capital punishment has served as a deterrent, according to a review by the National Research Council. The legal system itself is extremely flawed, it is naturally full of bias people no matter how hard they try to keep it clean. It doesn’t matter the diversity of the jury, it’s natural for a person to have a bias opinion the second they look at a person. This ‘bias opinion’ is based on the way a person looks, if they look like a person that would do something bad or if they look innocent. You are asking flawed people to judge other flawed people. People I have come in contact with when speaking about a topic involving a person doing something horrendous, usually say along the lines of, I would kill them myself. I don’t think people realize how hard it is to take another human life. An ex-Virginia executioner is against the death penalty and that was his job! He would empty his mind while doing the job because if he didn’t him would feel compelled to try and save that person he was supposed to kill. This ex-executioner feels that everyone can fix themselves and “repent” because we do not have the right to kill a person. “The people who pass these bills, they don’t have to do it, “said the Virginian. “The people who do the executions, they’re the ones who suffer through it.” The south the region with the highest executions and a huge majority of it still supports this idea according to www.deathpenaltyinfo.org.
Virginia has the second highest death penalty from 1976 to present that have killed 110 people! www.acapd.org and www.deathpenalty.org say, Out of 22,000 people that commit homicides and horrendous crimes only a small fraction of them are put on death row. This sparks a very large question whether or not the capital punishment is bias. In Arkansas 195 people were put on death row and 134 black males out of the 195 were executed. Studies repeatedly show not only racial was financial bias in the system, lower income people on death row are given very inadequate lawyers who usually lack the pay and the necessary experience to handle the penalty cases. In Fayetteville, North Carolina 3 prisoners were released from death row because a state judge found racial discrimination was what effect the decisions of the jury. These are the kinds cases that make the death penalty so dangerous and flawed. The death penalty needs to be abolished it is playing with a person’s life while relying on another person to be fair. I do not like the death penalty at all, it is a sketchy and dangerous system. No person has the right to decide how long a person can live. The best way to torture a person is to just put them in jail, let them think about what they did until they die. The death penalty is a quick death and lets a person escape a real punishment. Capital Punishment is and always will be flawed and too dangerous to use.
