Research Paper on Capital Punishment
hORRY GEORGETOWN TECHNICAL COLLEGE
rESEARCH PAPER ON capital punishment
jENNIFER c. dIETZ hus-202 PROFESSOR renee r. causey
5 july 2014
When European settlers first came to the new world, they brought with them the practice of capital punishment. The use of capital punishment in America was heavily influenced by Britain. The first recorded execution in the new colonies was that of Captain George Kendall in the Jamestown colony of Virginia in 1608 for being a spy to Spain (deathpenaltyinfo.org). Throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries there has been a gradual rise in the use of capital punishment followed by a peak in the early twentieth century, this is a trend toward more executions in recent years. People today disagree with capital punishment for many different reasons. Some of the more common reasons are things such as; you cannot prevent murder by engaging in killing, capital punishment reinforces the idea that violence solves problems, and finally killing anyone for any reason is just wrong. I however disagree with these opinions on the matter. I not only agree with capital punishment, but feel that is should be used more often and legal in all fifty stated throughout America. By enforcing capital punishment on a much swifter and common ground it would cause a ripple effect of great proportions. First of all it would help with the overcrowding of Americas prison systems. Next it would free up millions if not billions of tax payers dollars that are currently being used to house these violent criminals for the rest of their life. Finally, it would bring the families who are morning the loss of a loved one(s) some peace that the people who have committed such violent and hyenis crimes will never be able to harm anyone else ever again. The million dollar question that comes to everyone’s mind when capital punishment is being discussed is; does capital punishment actually deter crime? Recent
rESEARCH PAPER ON capital punishment
jENNIFER c. dIETZ hus-202 PROFESSOR renee r. causey
5 july 2014
When European settlers first came to the new world, they brought with them the practice of capital punishment. The use of capital punishment in America was heavily influenced by Britain. The first recorded execution in the new colonies was that of Captain George Kendall in the Jamestown colony of Virginia in 1608 for being a spy to Spain (deathpenaltyinfo.org). Throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries there has been a gradual rise in the use of capital punishment followed by a peak in the early twentieth century, this is a trend toward more executions in recent years. People today disagree with capital punishment for many different reasons. Some of the more common reasons are things such as; you cannot prevent murder by engaging in killing, capital punishment reinforces the idea that violence solves problems, and finally killing anyone for any reason is just wrong. I however disagree with these opinions on the matter. I not only agree with capital punishment, but feel that is should be used more often and legal in all fifty stated throughout America. By enforcing capital punishment on a much swifter and common ground it would cause a ripple effect of great proportions. First of all it would help with the overcrowding of Americas prison systems. Next it would free up millions if not billions of tax payers dollars that are currently being used to house these violent criminals for the rest of their life. Finally, it would bring the families who are morning the loss of a loved one(s) some peace that the people who have committed such violent and hyenis crimes will never be able to harm anyone else ever again. The million dollar question that comes to everyone’s mind when capital punishment is being discussed is; does capital punishment actually deter crime? Recent