Capital Punishment~Right or Wrong? Essay about the different views involving the death penalty and why they might feel that way.
Capital punishment, or the death penalty is one of the most
debated issues in the Criminal Justice Sysem and is a very
controversial issue among society. The two most common
views are either completely for or against capital
punishment. Most arguments against the death penalty are
for moral reason. They view it as cruel and unusual
punishment, whereas aguements for the death penalty say "an
eye for an eye."
One of the main arguements for capital punushment is
that it also prevents other murders from taking place.
However, there are actual statistics to prove otherwise.
These statistics show that more murders actually take place
during the following weeks.
(www.prodeathpenalty.com/ornellaspaper.htm)
Criminals tend to believe that they will escape any
concequences for their crime, or they simply are thinking
irrationally at the time and just don't think of the
concequences. So an escalation of concequences is usually
irrelevent to their state of mind at the time that they
comit the crime. (Capital Punishment- Cruel and Unusual?)
Most murders are "crimes of passion". They are
committed under the influence of the extremely blinding
emotions of "rage, hatred, jealousy, or fear." In fact, the
amount of unplanned murders account for more than ninety
percent, whereas, planned is about ten percent. So, then
who is likely reconcinder a crime because of the threat of
execution? The insane or mentally disturbed killer, or the
drug addicted drunk who hadn't intended to murder, but it
happened? Perhaps the macho, risk-taking gang member, or
even the murderer who wishes to be caught. "The reality,
with few exceptions, is that murderers are not clear
thinking people. They are impulsive, self centered, often
warped; overwhelmingly they are products of violent homes;
frequently they are addled by booze or drugs; and most of
them are deeply antisocial." (Just Revenge, Mark Costanzo,
Reviews of: "Capital Punishment~Right or Wrong? Essay about the different views involving the death penalty and why they might feel that way."
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great explanation of a point of view
Although you bring up great points of intrest and your work is sited well, you lost me on the last sentence in the 1st paragragh, it seems as though you are starting one thing, not finishing and then going to another.
Although you may not know this, it cost more money for someone on death row than it does for someone to be in prison with no parole. There are appeals on top of appeals after a judgement is made for the death penalty costing taxpayers more money. The second thing is, you are entitled to your oppinion, however, what about people who have been on death row for twenty years, (this is usually about how long the average person takes to actually get the death sentence in effect) and they are now finding out through DNA that the person had nothing to do with the crime. Sometimes you can kill innocent people for no reason.
Im all for the death pennalty for anyone who normally would have a life sentance without perole, wast of space and tax dollars
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Good
This essay is really good and you bring up some good points that I would never have thought of.
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