Capital Punishment: A Crime Deterrent?

The Easy Way Out On February 4, 1983 in Corpus Christi, a convenience store clerk, Wanda Lopez was stabbed to death with an 8-inch buck knife. The police had found Deluna hiding under a truck a few blocks away, and several witnesses told the cops that he looked like the killer. Deluna always maintained that he didn’t do it, but waited until his trial was imminent to allege that someone named Carlos Hernandez was the real killer. The lead prosecutor in the case, Steve Shiwetz, dismissed Delunas claim calling Hernandez a ‘’phantom’’ and ‘’figment’’ of Delunas imagination. He was executed in 1989. A detective was hired and it took him exactly one day to track down Carlos Hernandez, who was a repeat offender with a history of slashing women with his buck knife and looked alike to Carlos Deluna. The detective also discovered that Hernandez bragged about killing the clerk and that the state had executed the wrong person. Hernandez died in prison of natural causes after being jailed for attacking his neighbor with a knife. Good morning/afternoon Miss.Robitaille and fellow classmates.
It is with these kinds of controversial stories that we come to doubt on whether the death penalty should still be kept in place or be abolished. Capital punishment is a highly debated topic all around the world, having opinions surrounded by ethical and moral reasoning. As a fact, capital punishment does not deter crime rates but rather increases it. Furthermore, the death sentence goes against the Fundamental Human Rights and spending life in jail, into an environment of rape, violence and terror is a greater punishment than the easy way out perception of ‘’and eye for an eye’’. The actual process of death row is way more expensive than life imprisonment without parole. It is with these stated facts and ideas that I believe that the capital punishment should be abolished. As a matter of fact, the capital punishment does not deter the crime which has no beneficial effect on murder or