Death Penalty
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Death Penalty
with certain types of violent crimes. There are criminals who had there not been capital
punishment may have killed all the witness's , thankfully because of the death penalty
there has been more lives saved. As for the overall crime rate the death penalty has not
deterred crimes from being committed. Truthfully I think that the prison system is the
biggest deterrent to crime in America. For states that don't have the death penalty that's
the biggest deterrent, I can't think of anyone who wants to spend the rest of their lives in
jail.
For some people, jail is where they change the paths of their lives, some have
used jail as a means rehabilitate themselves and some have even found religion while in
jail and have turned their lives around. I believe that the death penalty has helped the
types of crimes that are committed, people who commit crimes are less likely to commit
lethal crimes. According the Bureau of Justice Statistics there are 1,610,446 inmates in all
the jails in the USA and out of all those there are only 3,279 people on death row, so if
you do the math, the death penalty has been very useful in cutting down lethal crimes in
America. There might not be a decline in overall crime in America, but there has been a
decline in the amount of lethal crimes in America, which then gives a convict a chance to
be rehabilitated and a chance to re-enter society. However there has been a big push
overseas to abolish the death penalty. On the 18th of December 2007 the United Nation
General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the global moratorium on the use of the
death penalty.
They have even adopted the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: which
gives those countries still using the death penalty a kind of bill of rights for
the use of the death penalty, in article 6 it list some of the stipulations like: death should
only be imposed for the 'most serious...
with certain types of violent crimes. There are criminals who had there not been capital
punishment may have killed all the witness's , thankfully because of the death penalty
there has been more lives saved. As for the overall crime rate the death penalty has not
deterred crimes from being committed. Truthfully I think that the prison system is the
biggest deterrent to crime in America. For states that don't have the death penalty that's
the biggest deterrent, I can't think of anyone who wants to spend the rest of their lives in
jail.
For some people, jail is where they change the paths of their lives, some have
used jail as a means rehabilitate themselves and some have even found religion while in
jail and have turned their lives around. I believe that the death penalty has helped the
types of crimes that are committed, people who commit crimes are less likely to commit
lethal crimes. According the Bureau of Justice Statistics there are 1,610,446 inmates in all
the jails in the USA and out of all those there are only 3,279 people on death row, so if
you do the math, the death penalty has been very useful in cutting down lethal crimes in
America. There might not be a decline in overall crime in America, but there has been a
decline in the amount of lethal crimes in America, which then gives a convict a chance to
be rehabilitated and a chance to re-enter society. However there has been a big push
overseas to abolish the death penalty. On the 18th of December 2007 the United Nation
General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the global moratorium on the use of the
death penalty.
They have even adopted the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: which
gives those countries still using the death penalty a kind of bill of rights for
the use of the death penalty, in article 6 it list some of the stipulations like: death should
only be imposed for the 'most serious...