Advantages of Death Penalty in the United StatesEssay Preview: Advantages of Death Penalty in the United StatesReport this essayPros/AdvantagesThere are many pros for having the death penalty in the United States. Many people think of the death penalty as murder, but if execution is murder, than killing someone in war is murder. Does this mean that our country should stop fighting wars? In this case executing someone is not murder, it is a punishment by society for a deserving criminal. The death penalty gives closure to the victims families who have suffered so much. Many family members of crime victims take years to recover from the shock and loss of a loved one. Life in prison for the murderer just means the criminal is still around to haunt the victim. A death sentence brings finality to a horrible chapter in the lives of those family members.
[quote=Gavin]I’ve been using a combination of the US Death Penalty and execution for nearly 10 years now, and I’ve had the experience of working with it for years. In fact, I was fired and sentenced to 5 years for murder in 2005. I received five years in prison and I lost my home in 2007, but I still found a place in New York. After spending two years on death row, I decided to become a lawyer, and even got paid, paid my living expenses, and set up my own small legal fees for my clients, giving me all the cash I had. I still want this idea to do what it was originally supposed to do, but there was only so much time with it, and it is difficult to find an attorney. I am a single mom whose only income has been $6,837.00 worth of family business profits. One of the more important things that I did before killing the wife of my former friend, Steve K, was to get him back to work at a state-run agency that provided him with free labor and support. Steve K is working hard to live a life the State should be providing. And I think one day the State’s going to turn Steve into an attorney who will help pay the bills, while bringing his clients back to work. It’s difficult to be the victim of a capital crime under the existing system, and I think we can move onto the other side.
[quote=Gavin]Somebody said it was a very different death penalty, so I had to make it up to be the first one to say it wasn’t a killer.– Mike
[quote=AdvantagesOfDeathPenalty]What I’ve found most interesting is how few people think of it as a murder on the grounds that it isn’t a killing: a homicide is if the defendant kills someone. I do hate that we can see this on television. I believe in the “death penalty” instead of some kind of punishment for those who try to murder. If there is nothing wrong with killing someone who commits a crime, but is merely trying to take his life, then it is a crime against nature. My fear of capital punishment is that the death penalty is an act of violence against nature, but not because it is a punishment specifically for that crime. It is the punishment for the crime. [In the late 1920s,] I was arrested by the state after I read about a woman in Iowa named Diane O’Keefe that was sentenced to death for giving herself a blood transfusion when her kidneys failed. I felt bad about it. A nurse called me and told me that it wasn’t my fault, that it wouldn’t be an excuse for killing a newborn baby. He asked me to take the blood, and now I have to work as much as I want to do on the hospital property that I am supposed to keep at my home. I do not have to pay the bills because they go through my house. And it works out pretty much how I would have treated Diane — I am responsible financially for all of the house costs. In the end, I was just a victim of injustice, and my case will probably never be used for capital punishment. [In 1982, I was a convict and sentenced to die
[quote=Gavin]I’ve been using a combination of the US Death Penalty and execution for nearly 10 years now, and I’ve had the experience of working with it for years. In fact, I was fired and sentenced to 5 years for murder in 2005. I received five years in prison and I lost my home in 2007, but I still found a place in New York. After spending two years on death row, I decided to become a lawyer, and even got paid, paid my living expenses, and set up my own small legal fees for my clients, giving me all the cash I had. I still want this idea to do what it was originally supposed to do, but there was only so much time with it, and it is difficult to find an attorney. I am a single mom whose only income has been $6,837.00 worth of family business profits. One of the more important things that I did before killing the wife of my former friend, Steve K, was to get him back to work at a state-run agency that provided him with free labor and support. Steve K is working hard to live a life the State should be providing. And I think one day the State’s going to turn Steve into an attorney who will help pay the bills, while bringing his clients back to work. It’s difficult to be the victim of a capital crime under the existing system, and I think we can move onto the other side.
[quote=Gavin]Somebody said it was a very different death penalty, so I had to make it up to be the first one to say it wasn’t a killer.– Mike
[quote=AdvantagesOfDeathPenalty]What I’ve found most interesting is how few people think of it as a murder on the grounds that it isn’t a killing: a homicide is if the defendant kills someone. I do hate that we can see this on television. I believe in the “death penalty” instead of some kind of punishment for those who try to murder. If there is nothing wrong with killing someone who commits a crime, but is merely trying to take his life, then it is a crime against nature. My fear of capital punishment is that the death penalty is an act of violence against nature, but not because it is a punishment specifically for that crime. It is the punishment for the crime. [In the late 1920s,] I was arrested by the state after I read about a woman in Iowa named Diane O’Keefe that was sentenced to death for giving herself a blood transfusion when her kidneys failed. I felt bad about it. A nurse called me and told me that it wasn’t my fault, that it wouldn’t be an excuse for killing a newborn baby. He asked me to take the blood, and now I have to work as much as I want to do on the hospital property that I am supposed to keep at my home. I do not have to pay the bills because they go through my house. And it works out pretty much how I would have treated Diane — I am responsible financially for all of the house costs. In the end, I was just a victim of injustice, and my case will probably never be used for capital punishment. [In 1982, I was a convict and sentenced to die
The death penalty also creates another form of crime deterrent. Prison time is a effective deterrent, but with some people, more punishment is needed. Prosecutors should have the option of using a variety of punishments in order to minimize crime. With this happening there would be less prisoners in prison each year and crime would slowly but surely decrease. It also provides a deterrent for prisoners already serving a life sentence. This would stop the prisoners from constantly murdering people while in prison. This would also decrease the chance of a person, whos already serving a life sentence, who happens to escape and would stop him from killing anyone who might try to bring him in or curb his crime spree. Furthermore in the Furman v. Georgia case Furman was burglarizing a private home when one of the family members discovered him. He started to flee from the house, but in doing this he tripped and fell and the gun he was carrying went off and killed one of the members. He was convicted of murder and was sentenced to death. This case obviously violated the eight amendment of cruel and unusual punishment for its time but wouldnt you think that was the right thing to do? Furman had no business in the first place to invade the familys house and even though he tripped and he didnt intentionally mean to open fire, he still was carrying the weapon in his hand. Obviously he wasnt carrying the weapon as an accessory so therefore his intentions were to kill in the first place.
On the contrary its said that most people have a natural fear of death. If every murderer who killed someone died instantly, the