The death penalty? Is it a cruel way of dealing with criminals or is it a service which help keep the state safe? The death penalty is used in the United States of America. The death penalty is a legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime. The judicial decree that someone be punished in this manner is a death sentence. Capital punishment has, in the past, been practiced by most societies currently 58 nations actively practice it, and 97 countries have abolished it. Some methods of execution in America are using an electric chair, using a gas chamber, hanging and a lethal injection.
The death penalty is used in a number of countries like China (PRC), Iraq, Israel, Japan, North Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, United Arab Emirates and the United States. The
I think that the death penalty is not effective because you could mistake an innocent person for a criminal. This would mean that the person would die for something he/she he never did and then when they figure out that they got the wrong person they try to compensate their family. This is very wrong because it they are taking the life of an innocent man/woman and paying back their families as if they are animals. I think that this could be the same as a person who kills a farmer’s cow and then pays the farmer for it.
Someone else might disagree with me because they might say that without the death penalty the country would have to pay more money to keep them in prison. This would cost the government millions of dollars to keep a prisoner in jail. This would decrease the economy of America and it would not be one of the richest countries in the world.