Capital punishment
my name is Jonathan Stuart and i wrote this for my grade 10 English class. it is not done yet but it is a good start...
Capital punishment? Capital punishment in my opinion is inhumain and should be universally banned . I for one am completely against it. It is taking away the most important right as a human- Life! Murder is wrong! Since childhood, we have been taught this indisputable truth. Ask yourself, then, what is capital punishment? In its simplest form, capital punishment is defined as one person taking the life of another. Coincidentally, that is the definition of murder. There are 36 states with the death penalty in the U.S., and they must change. These states need to abolish capital punishment on the grounds that it carries a dangerous risk of punishing the innocent. It is unethical and barbaric, and finally it has been proven as an ineffective deterrent to crime versus the alternative of life in prison without parole. Why take a life for a life? That makes the executioner just as bad as the Criminal. Capital Punishment should be completely abolished!
It has happened before and it will happen again. Innocent people will be executed and the real criminal will still merge around, free and able to offend again. Hundreds of people are convicted of a serious crime each day. But not all of them are actually guilty. There is no way to tell how many of the over 1,000 people executed since 1976 may also have been innocent. Courts do not generally entertain claims of innocence when the defendant is dead. Defense attorneys move on to other cases where clients' lives can still be saved. A Chicago Tribune investigation released in 2006 revealed groundbreaking evidence that Texas may have executed an innocent man in 1989. The defendant, Carlos DeLuna, was executed for the fatal stabbing of Texas convenience store clerk Wanda Lopez in 1983. New evidence uncovered by reporters Maurice Possley and Steve Mills casts doubt on DeLuna’s guilt and points towards
Capital punishment? Capital punishment in my opinion is inhumain and should be universally banned . I for one am completely against it. It is taking away the most important right as a human- Life! Murder is wrong! Since childhood, we have been taught this indisputable truth. Ask yourself, then, what is capital punishment? In its simplest form, capital punishment is defined as one person taking the life of another. Coincidentally, that is the definition of murder. There are 36 states with the death penalty in the U.S., and they must change. These states need to abolish capital punishment on the grounds that it carries a dangerous risk of punishing the innocent. It is unethical and barbaric, and finally it has been proven as an ineffective deterrent to crime versus the alternative of life in prison without parole. Why take a life for a life? That makes the executioner just as bad as the Criminal. Capital Punishment should be completely abolished!
It has happened before and it will happen again. Innocent people will be executed and the real criminal will still merge around, free and able to offend again. Hundreds of people are convicted of a serious crime each day. But not all of them are actually guilty. There is no way to tell how many of the over 1,000 people executed since 1976 may also have been innocent. Courts do not generally entertain claims of innocence when the defendant is dead. Defense attorneys move on to other cases where clients' lives can still be saved. A Chicago Tribune investigation released in 2006 revealed groundbreaking evidence that Texas may have executed an innocent man in 1989. The defendant, Carlos DeLuna, was executed for the fatal stabbing of Texas convenience store clerk Wanda Lopez in 1983. New evidence uncovered by reporters Maurice Possley and Steve Mills casts doubt on DeLuna’s guilt and points towards