Capitol PunishmentJoin now to read essay Capitol PunishmentCapital PunishmentCapital punishment is defined as the penalty of death for the commission of a crime. This penalty has been one of the most talked about issues in the past decade because of the opinions different states have on it. While some states support capital punishment, others are strongly against it. In the past decade, there have been many issues and problems that capital punishment has faced. Although many think of capital punishment as being a way of punishing those who have committed a crime, it is wrong to do so, on many levels. Capital punishment still has many issues in which show that the death penalty is weak. It shows that this type of punishment is ineffective and that there is no back bone to the reasons why the death penalty should be enforced. The main issues that put capital punishment into question are issues of morality, inefficiency issues, and standard death penalty practice issues. These issues prove capital punishment to be unfair and ineffective; therefore this form of punishment should be abolished.
One of the main arguments about capital punishment is that of morality. Many state that the killing of a person because of a crime that they have committed is completely not necessary. The Roman Catholics are the ones that are strongly against this type of punishment. Although not all of the United States population is Roman Catholic, of course the rest of the population is going to have morals of their own as well. Even though they might not agree with the Roman Catholic’s, many still believe it is morally wrong to end an individual’s life because of a mistake they have made in the past.
The issue of morality and capital punishment not only is being argued about in today’s society, but has had issues in the past as well. Extreme cases of capital punishment such as burning at the stake, is no longer being accepted. Severe other cases of capital punishment are no longer being accepted, but very little has changed. In present day society, capital punishment is more dignified; if there is such a thing. Capital punishment is more dignified because the government has found a way to kill those being punished at a lesser extent than burning at the stake or being fried on the electric chair. They are now given death through a lethal injection.
Inefficiency is a big issue within capital punishment. Capital punishment is mainly judged through trials by the jury. Even though most other cases are tried this way as well, the inefficiency of capital punishment trials proves to be the deciding factor whether a person lives or dies. This is due in part of the jury. The jury’s final conclusion decides whether a person is going to be put to death or not. In today’s society, death sentences are very questionable and are almost impossible to apply fairly. Most of the people on death row are of lower class and cannot afford the best defense for their trial. A good number of them are predominately African American or Hispanic descent, which tend to raise even more questions about racial equality during these trials. The only way capital punishment can come close to being justified is if these inefficiencies disappear. The government can never get rid
Suspending the Trial and Punishment and the Reassuring That The Decision is Just
During the case of Robert Fisk, Robert M. Fisk was in solitary confinement. For two years he fought for his release. On May 1, 2012, an armed robbery suspect, Jeremy Fisk, who had been caught with $40,000 and the proceeds of his wrongful death theft charges, was arrested in San Diego, California. He was held in the San Quentin Institution in a cell next to a trash can and in cell number 13 for almost four hours, with no bail and the threat of a prison sentence. No one was ever found. At the time of the attack, when Fisk was on his way to work on an environmental cleanup project, he was sitting in a corner of a cell with his cellmate on a wooden bench and his cellmate had an over a bottle of wine. His case was put on hold. He was taken to a local psychiatric facility and then to state court and was re-sentenced to be placed on a solitary confinement, where he lived every day for five days while his case was kept on hold until the court system could have a chance to decide whether or not he could get back alive, in a legal manner or whether he could spend his life in jail. That was two years ago.
Fisk’s Case: In February 2011, he came across a woman named Ashley Lee Roper’, living in the rural part of California. Roper allegedly got into a fight with Fisk when she worked alone on a farm outside of Las Cruces in October of 2010. Fisk was at the time in isolation and was about to get out of bed when Roper started yelling and punching and kicking and hitting Roper in her face. Roper had called authorities to report the situation and to tell her that if the two of them stayed put she and Fisk were going to get killed. Roper is charged with first-degree murder that does not match the testimony of three eyewitnesses. Fisk testified that Fisk hit Roper in the face with a wooden stick and in the face with a baseball bat as she was trying to get to her SUV. Roper testified that as a result of these injuries Fisk died five days later. Roper could not be reached for comment. Roper was put in jail on December 22, 2011. In January 2012, Roper told the court that she met up with Fisk by phone on October 5th 2009. That day her cellmate told her she was not “right for this. We should be happy you are here. We need justice for what you did, and what you did not have, and he needs to know something.” At some point in the middle of that phone call she called a confidential hotline for the local sheriff’s office as to what Roper said were “very disturbing allegations” that Fisk had made. Roper’s attorney told the court that her client received no advance notice after Roper did not reply. Roper told the court that her attorney had told the sheriff’s office it’s “inappropriate that a confidential number has been sent out under our procedure.”
The Case Was Dismissed When Fisk’s Killer Was found
To give the record the sense of some history, in March 2012 Fisk testified to the trial that he was found outside the St. Louis County Detention Center. The county prosecutor had found Fisk under “inappropriate conduct,” even though he had no prior criminal record and was found