Capital Punishment, is it right or wrong? When a murder occurs there is nothing anyone can do to fully repay such a devastating loss. However, I feel that the states should do everything in their power to administer justice in such circumstances. I also feel that the consequences for taking an innocent life of another should result in the death penalty. Nicholas Jenkins, author of "Dirty Needle," argues that proponents of the death penalty are hypocritical when they promote lethal injection as a humane form of execution. That is because Jenkins feels murder is murder and it is not right. He writes,.
"Execution is still a killing, a legal homicide" (782).
Yes execution is a killing, but in such a case as murder, execution is valid because it is best to kill the criminal before he/she commits another murder. .
No one today questions the necessity for punishing criminals by depriving them of their freedom for periods of time, however, there is ardent discussion regarding the topic of the death sentence. Questions such as whom, how, and to when it should be applied are crucial when discussing the subject. The majority of capital cases involve crimes committed against people who are white. Blacks who kill whites are sentenced to death at a far higher rate than whites who kill blacks. In the U.S., the chief objection .
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to capital punishment has been that it has always been used unfairly, in at least three major ways. First, women are rarely sentenced to death and executed, even though 20 percent of all homicides in recent years have been committed by women. Second, a disproportionate number of nonwhites are sentenced to death and executed. Third, poor and friendless defendants, those with inexperienced or court-appointed counsel, are most likely to be sentenced to death and executed. However, I believe that discrimination is not a sufficient reason for abolishing the death penalty. .
