Why it is bad
The United States needs to abolish the death penalty. It’s archaic, costly, ineffective, and most importantly, unjust. The Death Sentence is a system that many use for revenge than for actual justice. Prison serves a better way of justice because in there there is rehabilitation. The death penalty ultimately twists the purpose of the criminal justice system and makes it about: institutionalized revenge, racial violence or monetary cost. death penalty does seriously undermine the the criminal justice system for three reasons: racism, false incrimination, and revenge. there has been research were is was found that when a white person is killed there has more chances to get the death sentence than a black person was killed. also there has been confirmed of three people who got executed even though they were really innocent, their names are:Carlos De Luna,Cameron Todd Willingham, and Troy Davis.
Is it worth
Many people may think that capital punishment might think that capital punishment is cheaper than life imprisonment but actually is $1.1 million more expensive. Capital punishment is often defended on the grounds that society has a moral obligation to protect the safety and welfare of its citizens. Murderers threaten this safety and welfare. Only by putting murderers to death can society ensure that convicted killers do not kill again.
Death Sentence Quotes
(Capital punishment) is . . . the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated . . can be compared . . . For there to be an equivalence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had
confined him at mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.
--Albert Camus
If . . . he has committed a murder, he must die. In this case, there is no substitute that will satisfy the requirements of legal justice. There is no sameness of kind between death and remaining alive even under the most miserable conditions, and consequently there is no equality between the crime and the retribution unless the criminal is judicially condemned and put to death.
--Immanuel Kant
“But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.”
― Victor Hugo
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but it serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment; therefore the principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.
--WILLIAM J. BRENNAN
"Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders."
-Albert Camus
"What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!"
-Victor Hugo
confined him at mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life.
--Albert Camus
If . . . he has committed a murder, he must die. In this case, there is no substitute that will satisfy the requirements of legal justice. There is no sameness of kind between death and remaining alive even under the most miserable conditions, and consequently there is no equality between the crime and the retribution unless the criminal is judicially condemned and put to death.
--Immanuel Kant
“But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.”
― Victor Hugo
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but it serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment; therefore the principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.
--WILLIAM J. BRENNAN
"Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders."
-Albert Camus
"What says the law? You will not kill. How does it say it? By killing!"
-Victor Hugo