The document argues against the death penalty for three main reasons:
1) Many innocent people have been executed, as evidenced by over 130 people released from death row after being wrongly convicted of murder. Once carried out, the death penalty cannot be reversed if new evidence is later found.
2) The death penalty process and appeals system is very long and expensive, often lasting over 25 years and costing over $1 billion more than life imprisonment without parole.
3) The death penalty is inhumane and violates human rights, as no person or legal system has the right to end another human life.
Khadija Jones - Death Penalty Thesis PresentationChavez Schools
Khadija Jones is a senior graduating from Chavez Capitol Hill High School with a 3.1 G.P.A. She was awarded the “Outstanding Achievement” award from Legal Services Corporation and won the 3rd Place Speaker award in the Urban Debate League. Her volunteer and work experience include, New Orleans and Back, The Spirit of Black D.C. and a fellowship at the U.S. House of Representatives with Rep. Jared Polis. Miss Jones is interested in pursuing an undergraduate degree in history and a master’s degree in education. Khadija will be attending Coppin State College in the fall.
Khadija Jones - Death Penalty Thesis PresentationChavez Schools
Khadija Jones is a senior graduating from Chavez Capitol Hill High School with a 3.1 G.P.A. She was awarded the “Outstanding Achievement” award from Legal Services Corporation and won the 3rd Place Speaker award in the Urban Debate League. Her volunteer and work experience include, New Orleans and Back, The Spirit of Black D.C. and a fellowship at the U.S. House of Representatives with Rep. Jared Polis. Miss Jones is interested in pursuing an undergraduate degree in history and a master’s degree in education. Khadija will be attending Coppin State College in the fall.
Death penalty is the legal obligation of a sentence of death upon a convicted offender. It is another term for capital punishment. it done by means of the electric chair, the gas chamber, lethal injections, the garrotte and hanging are a few of them that are being used worldwide. It carries a dangerous risk of punishing the innocent. This kind of punishment is considered as unethical, barbaric and ineffective deterrent of crime compered to life in prison without bail. The state with death penalty are experiencing higher rate of murders than non-death penalty states (Death Penalty Information Center, 2014). Due to the number of horrific child abuse and murder cases in Namibia some people thought for a introducing the death penalty while other think as not needed. It results on different points of view.
FMDH - Death Penalty USA2104 : Elizabeth A. Zitrin, JDFMDH
Présentation de Elizabeth A. Zitrin, JD sur "Death Penalty USA2104" lors du Forum Mondial des Droits de l'Homme le 28 Novembre 2014.
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Capital punishment is the legitimate causing of death as a result of breaking the law in accord to
criminal law. Several jurisdictions have go on to exercise this means of penalizing felonies and
in the other parts, questions emerge on the legitimacy of the exercise. The mostly used methods
of implementing capital punishment long ago incorporated skewering as well as beheading. The
current society, the generally applied techniques vary from lynching, shelling, and electrocution
to lethal injections.
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Death penalty is the legal obligation of a sentence of death upon a convicted offender. It is another term for capital punishment. it done by means of the electric chair, the gas chamber, lethal injections, the garrotte and hanging are a few of them that are being used worldwide. It carries a dangerous risk of punishing the innocent. This kind of punishment is considered as unethical, barbaric and ineffective deterrent of crime compered to life in prison without bail. The state with death penalty are experiencing higher rate of murders than non-death penalty states (Death Penalty Information Center, 2014). Due to the number of horrific child abuse and murder cases in Namibia some people thought for a introducing the death penalty while other think as not needed. It results on different points of view.
FMDH - Death Penalty USA2104 : Elizabeth A. Zitrin, JDFMDH
Présentation de Elizabeth A. Zitrin, JD sur "Death Penalty USA2104" lors du Forum Mondial des Droits de l'Homme le 28 Novembre 2014.
Pour plus d'informations :
- Site web : http://fmdh-2014.org/fr/
- Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/FMDH2014
- Twitter : https://twitter.com/FMDH2014
- Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/user/FMDH2014
Capital punishment is the legitimate causing of death as a result of breaking the law in accord to
criminal law. Several jurisdictions have go on to exercise this means of penalizing felonies and
in the other parts, questions emerge on the legitimacy of the exercise. The mostly used methods
of implementing capital punishment long ago incorporated skewering as well as beheading. The
current society, the generally applied techniques vary from lynching, shelling, and electrocution
to lethal injections.
See more at: http://www.customwritingservice.org/blog/capital-punishment
1. ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY
IDENTIFY REA- EXPLAIN REASON PROVIDE EVIDENCE
SON
e.g Many inno- The major problem with the death penaltyAccording to the American Civil Liberties Union,
cent people is that once such a sentence has been car-research has shown that 1 in 7 sentenced to execu-
have been exe- ried out there is no going back. If new evi-tion in the US are later found to be innocent. Since
dence later comes to light, then the wrong-1973, 130 people have been released from death
cuted ly accused person has already been killed –row having been wrongly convicted of murder
therefore there is no opportunity for them(Amnesty International)
to be cleared of their crime in any mean-
ingful sense. Every legal system in the civi-"I cannot support a system which, in its adminis-
lized world accepts that it can make mis-tration, has proven so fraught with error and has
takes, which is why they have an appealcome so close to the ultimate nightmare, the
system. If this is the case, then why do theystate's taking of innocent life..’ – Governor
refuse certain people the right to be
proven innocent at a later date? George Ryan of Illinois
Cheaper The cost of the whole case for Many articles say that the actual cost
someone being sentenced for the of the death penalty is very expensive be-
death penalty is very expensive be- cause it requires a long and complex judi-
cause the case usually lasts a verycial process.
long time.(Sometimes up to 25 Statistics say that California could save
years!) Also the cost to actually over 1 billion dollars by abolishing the
carry out the ‘sentence’ costs a lot.death penalty.
The equipment needed for the actual
execution is very expensive.
Inhumane We as other humans have no right The global human rights constitution
to take the life of another human. states that no person is allowed to kill
Also, it is against the global humananother person.
rights constitution.