Introduction
Those supporting decapitations have been arguing that demise is the ultimate price to be paid for violent crimes. Nevertheless, studies have shown a repeated pattern in violent crime when one is executed. This article will address loopholes in the criminal justice systems across the world and how it has sacrificed innocent people for persecution in expenses of the guilty. Biases have not be left out during presentation of felony cases.
The death penalty should be abolished since it violets the international standards and laws. Suspects end up spending years on a death row depriving them the noble human freedom of associating with their families and friends while incarcerated.
The principle of modern criminology is the rehabilitation of criminals, this barbaric act violets the primary objective of the criminal law. Killing doesn’t have restorative value.
Capital punishment risks lives of the innocent
Innocent suspects have been released from a federal death sentence, others spared minutes to execution. Various investigations have poked holes where innocent men and women have been taken to the hangman. Only later to learn of their innocence after implementation of the heinous deed. Taking away a guiltless life is ethically reprehensible, a risk we cannot afford. During retrial the number of acquittals is high, showing discrepancies and errors in judgments.
Electrocution system is expensive
Getting to know the facts why the death penalty has become expensive in recent years is such a complicated affair. But this has been much attributed to the intensification in law that takes into consideration scientific methods and evidence, and changes in law and general public opinion, all these impacts the legal fee of representation. The high costs are as a result of a thorough jury selection up to the appellate and the extensive checks to ensure the innocent are not executed. However, it is still happening, suggesting the due diligence isn’t effective.
Death punishment is not a deterrence to crime
Science has failed to persuasively explain how the death penalty deters people from committing capital offenses. This is enough reason why we should do away with impalement. It is evident that countries without rub out system have fewer murder rate compared to their neighboring countries with the death penalty. Criminologists are unable to assemble evidence and thesis on how guillotine deters felony crimes. It is the conscience that decides. There’s a steady drop in violent crime without necessarily being correlated to capital punishment.
The mentally ailing are often executed
Ten percent of total people strangled are mentally ill, this according to the Amnesty International. The mentally disabled suspects do not take part fully in the due process during the trial. They feel cold and at times appear unengaged before the judge since some their speech isn’t audible enough. Some have been forcefully given drugs to appear competent to stand trial and possibly face shooting. Some states have abolished executing mentally disabled persons while others are taken them before the hangman.
Capital punishment is traumatizing to jurors and executioners
The conversation around the lethal injection and gassing should put into consideration as it pauses possible psychological effect towards those involved in instilling this kind of “justice.” Executioner and jurors are indirect victims of the death penalty. The wardens and prison authorities engaged in beheading suffer from depression for killing. It is inhumane to put the mental health of correctional officers at stake for vengeance.
The death penalty is racially instigated
The America Bar Association quoted: “The disparities in administering guillotine are racially driven with very little done to stabilize the worsening situation. Suspects are sentenced in relation to race. The Black who makes 14 percent of the total American population constitutes 49% of those on death row. The possibility of being handed to the hangman increases by 27 percent if the accused is Black. Worst still at times Blacks are excluded from the fair hearing.
Federal death degrades the aim of retribution
Putting to death perpetrator of capital offenses in public is extremely inhuman for indefensible reasons. It doesn’t serve the objectives instead of increasing the cruelty and helping illegitimate all process. Any form of the death penalty to the people violets the right to life. When undertaken in public is gross disrespect to human dignity. Governments cannot justify the elimination of prisoners since this topic can’t divorce from the human right.
Conclusion
Capital punishment by death should be banned in totality. Murder is a grave offense that should never be justifiable, should be condemned without further reasons. Never the less, grave offenses should be punished by life imprisonment without an option of parole. This eliminates the possibility of an irreversible fault, which keeps the public at peace.
Most of the inmates on death row have reformed; born-again Christians and astute Muslims steadfast in their faith. The pardoned and released ones, there is no reported case of rearrest for a major crime. The all discussion revolving around the death penalty is split between moral principle and pragmatism. With citations contradicting each other; “Eye for an eye” from the proponents of why the death penalty should be abolished and, “Thou shalt not kill” by the opponents.
