Arguments To Reinstate The Death Penalty

If I was a member of the state legislature in State X and one of my colleagues would introduce a measure to reinstate the death penalty, my vote would be definitely against. In our constitution, the 8th Amendment prohibits the court from subjecting criminals to “cruel and unusual punishment” which includes death penalty. I support that concept because if death penalty becomes legal in United States a lot of people might find themselves on that death table for reasons that are not worth it. Firstly, a lot of the people who are in jails for the rest of their lives are not murderers. Secondly, everybody makes mistakes including jury who might make a big mistake that will cost somebody their life. And thirdly, death penalty might not be as terrifying as it seems. My first argument why the death penalty should not be reinstated is because many of those inmates who are in jail for the rest of their lives are non-violent criminals. Yes, they did trick the system, stole money from government and other people, maybe even bankrupted some and ruined their victims’ lives very badly but do they deserve to die for that kind of a crime? I am sure, if death penalty would be legal, a lot of those non-violent criminals would be tied up in an electric chair just because there are some lawyers that are really
good at what they do and if they would really want to, they would be able to convince the jury to give that horrible, but non-violent prisoner the death sentence. My second argument why the death penalty should not be reinstated is because everybody makes mistakes, including the jury.
The jury might get convicted that the prisoner is guilty and he or she deserves to die, but the jury can be wrong, What if six months later some new evidence comes up which proves the innocence of the convict that has already been executed. Legalizing the death penalty takes away the opportunity for the prisoner to prove his or her innocence in the future, which in this case only harms the innocent prisoner because if the fugitive is guilty he or she won’t be able to find any alibi to help them not now, and definitely not in the
future. A lot of people think that death is the worst thing that can happen to a person and that everybody is afraid of dieing but that is not true, and that is my third argument against the death penalty. If a criminal has made an awful crime such as murder or torture of other person or people I don’t think he or she deserves to have the privilege of dieing. If they are executed, they just die and rest in peace, but if they live in a cell for the rest of their lives without seeing any sunlight, and being trapped all alone with their conscience of guilt and memories of freedom, that is when they will really suffer and feel the pain that they have cause to others. In conclusion, death penalty is not the answer to end crimes because if we just compare United States to any other countries that exercise the death penalty, their crime rates are the same or even higher then ours, so we just have to come up with some other methods of preventing violence such as improving our schools and teaching our children a better way of life.