Death Penalty Innocents

Killed

By: Students against death penalty

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 Death penalty
The death penalty is on a ween. It is becoming less and less popular and it needs
to stop. Innocent people are being killed and their families are left with out an answer.
We are trying to show people to stop killing but by using the death penalty we are just
killing more people. More and more are abolishing the death penalty one of the first
countries was the UK. The UK abolished the death penalty for murdered a few years
after 1769. The death penalty was first started in ancient times 399 B.C a Greek
philosopher was killed. He was ordered to drink hemlock, (Poison) (Taylor). Then
people in Europe started being hung or beheaded. The Europeans used a Guillotine
also known as a beheading machine. Despite this, capital punishment was denied by
many other in the 1900s. Instead of stopping or abolishing it many states and
countries are adding extensive protections for the prisoners to ensure fair cases.
Arizona’s state law requires you to have a decision with in 60 days of the
arraignment( Montgomery). Another thing to keep in mind is that not all murder
cases are death penalty cases some get life in prison or a very high sentence. “For
centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been
trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists.”
According to World Book Online in 1985 Australia abolished death penalty for
all cases and crimes. 140 nations formally stopped using the death penalty(Taylor).
Capital punishment is often more popular with less developed countries. Some
believe that it should be used because it ensures murders can never murder again.
Your killing someone that still deserves a life. Others believe that it violates the 8th
and 14th amendment and needs to be stopped. A big controversy is that justice is only
met with proper punishment. This is a false statement, because killing another person
isn’t helping our society out or pushing the message we want out. As people said
before we are trying to stop killings but yet we are still killing when using the death
penalty.
The death row, we have lots of prisoners just sitting at the death row waiting for
legal appeals. According to [Link] in 2002 the Supreme Court said Juries not
judges had to declare capital punishment. Also in 2002 it was ruled unconstitutional to

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kill someone with an intellectual disability. One of the main ways to kill someone with
death penalty is lethal injection. This is actually very expensive, it ending up being a
whopping few million dollars over the course of a year or two(Taylor). Along with all
these changes way back in the 1970’s court said capital punishment was mandatory
for certain crimes. In that same period they abolished death penalty as a punishment
for rape. We still need to implement fair standards and limit the death penalty if we
are not going to end it overall. Because people don’t think it serves a purpose in this
time, plus it doesn’t meet standards of decency. Then in the middle of all this we have
all these people on the death row and they will not be able to leave prison or
correctional services. All together the system has a lot of flaws and needs to be fixed
or ended! “The death penalty is discriminatory and does not do anything about
crime. First of all, it does not deter crime, the death penalty. I support the death
penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a
deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives.”

Lethal injection stops your breathing then your heart beat. It is one of the least
painful ways to die during the death penalty. Before that in the 1600’s firing squads
became popular in many countries. A firing squad is a group of men who all get guns
they don’t know if they have a blank or a bullet. They circle around the person that is
going to be killed, then they all fire at once. The firing squad is awful because all the
men that took part in it can all go home thinking they didn’t kill the person yet one of
them did. Now days in the U.S lethal injection is the most popular(Taylor). They strap
the person down to a chair then inject them with a serum and it shuts down their

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heart. The death penalty has to be dealt by federal law, military law, and by the laws
of over half the U.S. In other states in the U.S it has to do with influence from the
Supreme Court, like Georgia. This is something that is very questionable. Virginia is
ready to make updates to their law. Missouri is thinking about applying a must have
death penalty(Top court bans). While many other states want to stop or abolish it and
think it is cruel or unusual punishment. Lots of countries and areas have their own
view, others think it grants peace to the victims family and assures that a murder will
never murder again. But, I think that life in prison is a better punishment we will save
money on killing all these people and it still assures a murder will never murder
again. In conclusion the death penalty has a negative effect on our society and we are
killing people that still deserve a life even if it is in prison! “Many that live deserve
death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too
eager to deal out death in judgement.”