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Why the Death Penalty is Unrealistic in Today's Society

Why the Death Penalty is Unrealistic in Today's Society


The death penalty ultimate goal is to stop crime. What is the difference in the state killing someone and a man killing another man? Either way someone is being murdered and murder is a crime. People think that if you execute a person that you are freeing up more tax dollars for the state. Then you have the issue of dealing with people's moral and religious beliefs. When a person is given the death penalty, you are in essence giving them the easy way out of the situation. The death penalty has failed totally because it was a seriously flawed and unnecessary law. The death penalty should have never been considered, much less implemented and I feel that it should be abolished.

The key part of the death penalty is that it involves death, something, which is rather permanent for humans. This creates a major problem when "there continue to be many instances of innocent people being sentence to death."(Hanks 142) In our legal system, there exist lots of ways in which justices might be poorly served for a recipient of the death sentence. One way is the handling of ones own defense counsel. If a defendant is without counsel, a lawyer will provide. But a lot of the attorney's given to defendant lack the qualities necessary to provide competent defense. With payment caps or court-determined sums of, for example $5 an hour, there is not much incentive for a lawyer to spend a great deal of time representing defendants. When you compare this to prosecution, "aided by police, other law enforcement agencies, crime labs, state mental hospitals, various other scientific resources, experienced prosecutors in these type cases, and grand juries"(Hank 144), the defense that the court provide is little no help. What if a defendant has a valid case to offer, but does not show it because he or she was represented wrong? Why should they be punish for a injustice that is created by the court itself when it appointed the incapable lawyer?

The most frequent argument for capital punishment is that of deterrence. Society makes you think if you use the death penalty it will dissuade other criminals from committing violent acts. Numerous studies nave been created attempting to prove this belief, "but the evidence taken together makes it hard to be confident that capital punishment deters more...

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