Death Penalty! what do you think. do you think that we have enough things today to detect if someone actually?
did the crime therefore preventing wrongful deaths. i'm doing a persuassive speech on it and i just need some opinions. alos i need like some really horrific pictures of like homocides and stuff anybody know a site where i can get them? thanks in advance and best answer gets the points
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I believe that in our modern society the risk of executing a truly innocent person is way overblown by the liberals. When liberals want to complain about the death penalty they typically trot out a list of about 10 famous cases where the death penalty was used and the person was later found to be innocent. While I agree that this has happened throughout history, the names on that stock list are usually decades or more old (ex: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg from 1950).
Nowadays the average person sentenced to death spends about 20 years on death row before the death sentence is carried out. During this time, the prisoner makes an average of 3 appeals - that makes 4 trials (before a jury and/or appeals court judges) where there is the opportunity to present new evidence, plea for leniency, etc...
The left is always shouting about how new evidence like DNA testing could exonerate the prisoner in the future. Well, doesnt this mean that we have to conclusively seal in stone the guilty verdict of those who today have been proved to have done it by DNA testing? If the argument works one way, it should be accepted the other way too.
Ok... give me 5 seconds before the hate replys and negative feedback starts pouring in.
P.S. - remember folks, the total number of people executed in the US every year is about 100-200 (not sure of the exact number). that is such a small percentage of those actually sitting on death row (over 1000 in Texas alone), that it is VERY unlikely that anyone whose conviction is even the slightest bit questionable will actually have their sentence carried out.
P.P.S - the death penalty is the only sure fire way to make sure that a murderer does not kill again. Someday, some judge or parole board is gonna let Charles Manson out. He may be 75 years old, he may be dying of cancer, etc... when it happens, but he will get out. When that happens, the world will NOT be a safer place to live in!
You should check out The Innocence Project at Northwestern University. http://www.innocenceproject.org/content/...
That would be a good place to start. Although we often have the technology to determine a person's guilt or innocence, many criminal defendants cannot afford the use of such technology.
For pictures I would check out yahoo images and rotten.com.
Good luck.
If we only used the death penalty on people for which the DNA evidence was irrefutable, there could still be reasons not to invoke the death penalty, such as the person's mental capacity. I think it would be better to just describe some crime scenes, showing pictures of homicides could make people ill and highly offended, and you wouldn't persuade those people, you'd just make them angry. This website has detailed stories of lots of murders:
We don't. DNA evidence is available in less than 10% of all homicides.
You should visit the website of the Innocence Project and also see the recent article by Richard Moran on wrongful convictions. This explains causes of wrongful convictions.
For photos I suggest looking at tabloids- the New York Post for starters.
Edit: The answer just below mine is wrong on some facts. This topic is too important for guessing when we do have some solid info.
The number of executions per year is much less than he writes. There have been less than 1100 since 1976 (1189 as of today, an average of about 35 per year.)
Life without parole is available in 48 states. It means what it says. And it costs much less than the death penalty. (www.deathpenaltyfocus.org on why this is so.)
Our appeals system is not set up to hear new evidence, but only to make sure the trial met constitutional standards. It is extremely difficult to get evidence of actual innocence introduced into an appeals court. Habeas corpus relief is one way to do this, but it is less and less available.
DNA is rarely available in homicides. There are other problems with forensics, and the field is rapidly advancing (forensics surrounding arson, for example). Most wrongful convictions of people on death row were found without DNA. Most of the wrongful convictions occurred because of human error.
I am against the electric chair and lethal injection.
I am for a stabbing chair, an electric couch (take advantage of cheaper electricity in bulk) and cheaper forms of killing someone.
I think the urge to see the perpetrator of a horrendous crime killed is a normal and understandable human reaction. I was pro-death penalty for a long time, but I have changed my stance over the years, for several reasons:
1. By far the most compelling is this: Sometimes the legal system gets it wrong. Look at all the people who have been released after years of imprisonment because they were exonerated by DNA evidence. Unfortunately, DNA evidence is not available in most cases. No matter how rare it is, the government should not risk executing one single innocent person.
Really, that should be reason enough for most people. If you need more, read on:
2. Because of the extra expense of prosecuting a DP case and the appeals process (which is necessary - see reason #1), it costs taxpayers MUCH more to execute prisoners than to imprison them for life.
3. The deterrent effect is questionable at best. Violent crime rates are actually higher in death penalty states. This may seem counterintuitive, and there are many theories about why this is (Ted Bundy saw it as a challenge, so he chose Florida – the most active execution state at the time – to carry out his final murder spree). Personally, I think it has to do with the hypocrisy of taking a stand against murder…by killing people. The government becomes the bad parent who says, ‘do as I say, not as I do.’
4. There’s also an argument to be made that death is too good for the worst of our criminals. Let them wake up and go to bed every day of their lives in a prison cell, and think about the freedom they DON’T have, until they rot of old age. When Ted Bundy was finally arrested in 1978, he told the police officer, “I wish you had killed me.”
5. The U.S. government is supposed to be secular, but for those who invoke Christian law in this debate, you can find arguments both for AND against the death penalty in the Bible. For example, Matthew 5:38-39 insists that violence shall not beget violence. James 4:12 says that God is the only one who can take a life in the name of justice. Leviticus 19:18 warns against vengeance (which, really, is what the death penalty amounts to). In John 8:7, Jesus himself says, "let he who is without sin cast the first stone."
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