Eliminating The Death Penalty
Eliminating the Death Penalty
The Death Penalty has been debated for many years and even though the Eight Amendment of the Bill of Rights abolished any cruel and unusual punishment in 1789, it continues to be viewed as an acceptable form of punishment. California is the state that has the most people under death row, but California also performs very few executions, from 1978 to 2009 only 13 were preformed (Colon, 2009). California does not need the capital punishment, and has attempted eliminating it, changing specifics, like the mediums of killing a person and narrowing the causes for putting a person on death row. The Death Penalty or Capital Punishment is costly to tax payers, it deters from American values of life and liberty, it has …show more content…
The process is slow and it takes many years to complete reducing its effectiveness and purpose. Because there is no prompt execution, it might make the victims feel like they never got the justice they deserved, and therefore viewed as if the person never got punished for what they did (Colon, 2009). Society does not see this as a deterrent of crime because it is something uncommon and not applicable to most crimes. The debate over who decides if the executions are acceptable, creates a power debate between the states and federal government, and up to what extend can the states charge murder as worthy for capital punishment. For that reason, the federal and state governments must agree that the murder type is in fact severe enough and legislations must match as …show more content…
Even though in California, the executions are not common, and partly because of the process, it is still something that as a society we see as acceptable, when killing people for the exact same thing, is not a punishment, just a solution for society to get rid of the issue. Taking the life of a person is cruel, and society might continue to view as acceptable for many years to come, but hopefully we reach a time where we agree that we need to abolish it permanently and that we see that we have had enough death in our nation, and we don’t need to add to it. Many have attempted to change it, end it, but until society agrees to end it, that is when things will change for inmates and their rights will truly be
The Death Penalty has been debated for many years and even though the Eight Amendment of the Bill of Rights abolished any cruel and unusual punishment in 1789, it continues to be viewed as an acceptable form of punishment. California is the state that has the most people under death row, but California also performs very few executions, from 1978 to 2009 only 13 were preformed (Colon, 2009). California does not need the capital punishment, and has attempted eliminating it, changing specifics, like the mediums of killing a person and narrowing the causes for putting a person on death row. The Death Penalty or Capital Punishment is costly to tax payers, it deters from American values of life and liberty, it has …show more content…
The process is slow and it takes many years to complete reducing its effectiveness and purpose. Because there is no prompt execution, it might make the victims feel like they never got the justice they deserved, and therefore viewed as if the person never got punished for what they did (Colon, 2009). Society does not see this as a deterrent of crime because it is something uncommon and not applicable to most crimes. The debate over who decides if the executions are acceptable, creates a power debate between the states and federal government, and up to what extend can the states charge murder as worthy for capital punishment. For that reason, the federal and state governments must agree that the murder type is in fact severe enough and legislations must match as …show more content…
Even though in California, the executions are not common, and partly because of the process, it is still something that as a society we see as acceptable, when killing people for the exact same thing, is not a punishment, just a solution for society to get rid of the issue. Taking the life of a person is cruel, and society might continue to view as acceptable for many years to come, but hopefully we reach a time where we agree that we need to abolish it permanently and that we see that we have had enough death in our nation, and we don’t need to add to it. Many have attempted to change it, end it, but until society agrees to end it, that is when things will change for inmates and their rights will truly be