However, as the years pass it seems to have lost a little bit of its value. Each year, the crime and murder rates rise, and sadly to say, the future does not hold much promise for decreasing. And, as the murder rates rise, as does the controversy surrounding death penalty. It seems that nowadays, no one is impartial; everyone has an opinion about which side they stand for. According to Edward I. Koch, capital punishment affirms the fact that life is truly precious. .
Koch says that this is easily demonstrated that it strengthens the value of human life because if the penalty for rape and other such heinous crimes were lowered, it clearly would signal a lessened regard for the victims" suffering, humiliation, and personal integrity. "It is by exacting the highest penalty for the taking human life that we affirm the highest value of human life." I, on the other hand, do not accept this logic. I agree with death penalty victim Joseph Carl Shaw when he states in a letter to the governor that "killing is wrong when I did it. Killing is wrong when you do it." I simply do not see the logic in murdering someone who has committed a murder because the same penalty is occurring; the taking of someone's life. Plain and simply put, killing is wrong.
Secondly, why does the death penalty for juveniles remain? ... Juveniles and the Death Penalty. ... The Supreme Court's Narrow Majority To Narrow The Death Penalty. Human Rights: Journal of the Section of Individual Rights & Responsibilities, 28 (3), 1-6. ... Currently, the US Supreme Court's death penalty jurisprudence ...
In January of 2003, The American Journal of Sociology published an article written by Eric P. ... The dependant variable for their study was the peoples attitudes toward the death penalty. They labeled those who favored the death penalty for a criminal convicted of a murder with a "1". Those who opposed the death penalty or who did not know were labeled or coded with a "0". ... Although support for the death penalty has changed between 1974 and 1998, for the most part 70% of the GSS interviewed during this time reported that they favor the death penalty for criminals who commit murder. ...
They all believed that the death penalty was cruel. ... They also refute the idea that the death penalty deters crime. ... Nothing less of the death penalty would be proportionate to murder. ... The United States government has many regulations regarding the death penalty. All of those rules oppose using the death penalty in an unfair manner, but do not prohibit the death penalty completely. ...
The death penalty is the execution of a person for a wrongdoing that they had done. ... This shows the rarity of the use of the death penalty. ... "Despite the continuing belief by a majority of Americans that the death penalty is morally permissible, the death penalty has few academic defenders. This lack of academic defenders is puzzling because of the strong philosophical justification the death penalty finds in traditional theories of punishment" (New Criminal Law Review: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal). A lot of people do not support the death penalty even with t...
The death penalty is a just(Opposing Viewpoints, 96) penalty for murderers. ... In The Death Penalty: Opposing viewpoints. ... In The Death Penalty: Opposing viewpoints. ... In The Death Penalty: Opposing viewpoints. ... "Wrongful Executions are Unlikely.aE The wall Street Journal. 10 May 2000. ...
Proponents of the death penalty claim ownership of the moral high ground in their arguments regarding murder, rape and other crimes. ... "We universally and consistently oppose the death penalty, in all circumstances. ... However these anomalies were swept away with the passing of the Crimes (Death Penalty Abolition) Amendment Act, 1985. Under Commonwealth law, the death penalty was abolished in 1973 by s.4 of the Death Penalty Abolition Act, 1973.( Australian Institute of Criminology report in crime and criminal justice 1993) Although Australia has abandoned capital punishment, it does not ...
(Eddlem 5) The death penalty serves as a deterrent to help reduce crime. ... The death penalty is not applied based on race. ... That said, the death penalty undoubtedly does deter in some cases. ... Anti-death penalty advocates argue that this law cannot be utilized when arguing for the death penalty. ... (Lowe) The death penalty should continue to be used to deter crime because most people fear death. ...
It is no wonder that many of our countries leaders endorse the death penalty. ... Death penalty states in America as a group do not have lower rates of criminal homicide than non- death penalty states. ... The death penalty is also discriminatory along economic lines. ... Another major problem with the death penalty is its finality. The irreversibility of the death penalty is especially significant in light of the percentage of innocent people on death row. ...
The death penalty does not deter capital crimes from being committed. ... America has higher murder rates with the death penalty, than any of the European countries without the death penalty. ... The use of the death penalty as a revenge mechanism should not be justified. ... As stated in a socialogical journal, " ...Most defendants in death penalty cases are poor and unable to afford private councel and as a result are defended by inexperienced lawyers." ... Different states have different rules regarding the death penalty. ...