Death Penalty
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Capital Punishment Moral for Justice
Capital Punishment Moral for Justice
Capital punishment which is also known as the death penalty is used today to punish a variety of offenses. When the word death penalty is used it stirs up argument between extremist. On one side the extremist are for the death penalty, because they feel it will deter crime and that the bible also enforced capital punishment when a person takes the life of another. The other side extremist feel that the death penalty should be abolished for moral reasons and the fact that innocent people have been murdered making a miscarriage of justice irrevocable (Knowles, H. J. 2011). Studies that support the claim that capital punishment has been a deterrent to homicide have been inconclusive, but extremist still feel that enforcing Capital punishment will keep prisons more stable, prevent serious offenders from committing more crimes, and will instill fear in the minds of criminal offenders which to this day is still debatable.
Death Penalty Claim
It has been suggested that the death penalty is a deterrent to homicide, which has helped Americans believe that the death penalty should be enforced. In 1961 Grant McClellan research on the murder rate theory claimed that in 1958 the10 states that had the fewest murders-fewer than two a year per 100,000 population, were New Hampshire Iowa, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Rhode Island, Utah, North Dakota and Washington. Four of these 10 states had abolished the death penalty. The 10 states, which had the most murderers from eight to fourteen killings per 100,000 populations, were Nevada, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, and Virginia, all of them enforce the death penalty. The fact is that fear of the death penalty has never served to reduce the crime rate (Wilkinson, D. J., & Douglas, T. 2008). In fact the regions with the largest murder rate (the south) are the regions with the most executions. It has been concluded that...
Capital Punishment Moral for Justice
Capital punishment which is also known as the death penalty is used today to punish a variety of offenses. When the word death penalty is used it stirs up argument between extremist. On one side the extremist are for the death penalty, because they feel it will deter crime and that the bible also enforced capital punishment when a person takes the life of another. The other side extremist feel that the death penalty should be abolished for moral reasons and the fact that innocent people have been murdered making a miscarriage of justice irrevocable (Knowles, H. J. 2011). Studies that support the claim that capital punishment has been a deterrent to homicide have been inconclusive, but extremist still feel that enforcing Capital punishment will keep prisons more stable, prevent serious offenders from committing more crimes, and will instill fear in the minds of criminal offenders which to this day is still debatable.
Death Penalty Claim
It has been suggested that the death penalty is a deterrent to homicide, which has helped Americans believe that the death penalty should be enforced. In 1961 Grant McClellan research on the murder rate theory claimed that in 1958 the10 states that had the fewest murders-fewer than two a year per 100,000 population, were New Hampshire Iowa, Minnesota, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Rhode Island, Utah, North Dakota and Washington. Four of these 10 states had abolished the death penalty. The 10 states, which had the most murderers from eight to fourteen killings per 100,000 populations, were Nevada, Alabama, Georgia, Arkansas, and Virginia, all of them enforce the death penalty. The fact is that fear of the death penalty has never served to reduce the crime rate (Wilkinson, D. J., & Douglas, T. 2008). In fact the regions with the largest murder rate (the south) are the regions with the most executions. It has been concluded that...