Introduction and Background Information The death penalty remains one of the controversial topics in the United States and other democracies around the world. A section of the community believe that capital punishment is the most appropriate way of punishing some crimes in the society. On the other hand, others argue...
Introduction Executing a person as a form of justice for a crime he has committed is known as capital punishment. The execution of a criminal is a legal action conducted by the state as a form of retribution. The death penalty is a topic of intense debate at the national...
Introduction The death penalty, or capital punishment, is one of the most severe possible sentences practiced globally. The concept of lethal punishment has become a subject of heated discussions concerning its ethics, effectiveness, practicality, and financial gain. In the United States, the death penalty is becoming continuously less prevalent, primarily...
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is an institutionalized exercise meant to execute people in response to intentional, supposed, or actual misconduct. The human rights union in the United States believes that capital punishment inherently infringes on the constitution’s ban against the death penalty and the provisions of...
Dustin Higgs’ execution was one of several that occurred following the restoration of the capital penalty in the United States. Dustin Higgs was indicted of murdering three women back in 1996. The Supreme Court voted six against 3 to clear Mr. Higgs’ execution amidst dissent by members of the liberal...
Introduction The given article argues that the death penalty should not be legally permissible because it does not deter or compensate for the loss experienced by the victim. The author states: “Even when the perpetrator is executed, it is not as though the pain of losing a loved one will...
Introduction Capital punishment has become a controversial subject in the contemporary world, with many countries putting an end to its practice. In some nations, the procedure is not entirely eradicated, like in the United States, where sixty percent of the country’s territories use it in small proportions (Burki 1531). At...
Introduction Nowadays, there are many controversial factors that are subjects of active discussions. One of these factors is the death penalty, which is still applied today in some countries. Although the death sentence is rare, the world has not completely abandoned radical punishment. This factor is controversial, as it goes...
Abstract Over the years, the debate of maintaining or abolishing the law permitting the criminal justice system to use the death penalty as a form of punishment for crimes such as murder has raised several questions. The public is divided about the issue as some are against the act describing...
Many countries, including the US, have laws that allow the criminal justice system to subject offenders to the death penalty depending on the nature and intensity of the offense committed. A number of inmates have been hanged in the past years following the court ruling that favored capital punishment. The...
Introduction Capital punishment is a contentious issue in society, with critics and proponents positing valid reasons for their stances. It is a major punishment that involves taking a life but is reserved for extreme cases in a community. Nonetheless, the issue has accurate connotations that go beyond people’s opinions, eliciting...
The moral acceptability of the death penalty is among the most partisan issues in contemporary ethics. In this paper, three approaches to this moral question are discussed: utilitarianism, the ethics of autonomy, and social contract theory. The “veil of ignorance” and social contract theory provides a clear perspective on the...
The death penalty is surrounded by a significant number of myths. For instance, proponents of the death penalty may claim that it deters violent crime and does it cost-effectively. However, in practice, the death penalty has no positive impact neither on the criminal justice system nor on society. In its...
Introduction The death penalty is one issue that is sensitive and has disputing views on whether it is fair or unfair. Currently, capital punishment is a settled law implying that many states have rejected and abolished it due to the challenges it imposes on the constitution. Approximately twenty-eight states still...
Introduction The sentence offered by courts of law for some crimes is the death penalty. Such crimes are considered excessively gross that for the perpetrators to serve jail time would not be logically possible or appealing to society. The death penalty has impacted the crime rate in various ways. Human...
Theories of death penalty seek to justify capital punishment from a philosophical perspective. These theories consider the consequences of the sentence in the future or its effect on the past facts. Forward-looking theories argue that punishment is justified as long as it brings good results after. Backward-looking theories justify punishment...
The main difference between forward-looking and backward-looking theories of punishment is that they consider different aspects of applying punishment to be the most productive. Forward-looking theories’ main point is to encourage good results out of the punishment. Backward-looking ones “seek a punishment “proportional to” or “fitting” the crime” (Rodgers). Hence,...
The death penalty is the most extreme measure of punishment that is abolished in most countries, including the United States. However, sometimes the issue of returning to this measure of punishment is brought up in society again, and discussions on the matter a held. Certain disturbing crimes evoke a high...
The death penalty, also known as capital punishment, is a legal procedure in which a state executes a person for crimes committed. Many states have adopted this punishment, which is usually reserved for the most heinous crimes, such as murder. It is also used for crimes against the state like...
The death penalty as a mean of capital punishment is a matter of active debate nowadays as there many diverse opinions on whether it should be legal and how it should be applied. Most democratic countries have restricted the death penalty as a cruel and unusual form of punishment that...
Introduction Within the contractual framework, the death penalty is seen as unethical and immoral. The major debate at stake concerns the challenges of racist history, ‘objective’ standards, and the ‘greater good.’ Considering the numerous variants of legal culture that influence erroneous court outcomes, it is not ethically justifiable to continue...
Lethal injection is the execution of prisoners accused of committing serious and heinous crimes such as murder or rape through administering one or more chemicals to cause death. This method was approved in California in 1993 to permit the prisoners to select between lethal gas or lethal injection as the...
The death penalty has been widely used across states in the U.S. to punish capital offenders. However, it has raised many issues despite the federal supreme court stating that the death penalty should be given to capital offenders. The opposers of the death penalty argue that the majority of the...
Eighty-five years ago, America’s last public execution transpired in Kentucky and 20,000 people gathered to watch it as a grotesque form of crowd entertainment akin to modern circuitry (Ndulue, 2020). In 2021, the closest contact most people have had with lethal punishment is a controversial topic for discussion. Rates of...
The concept of the death penalty is habitually associated with injustice since it violates human rights, namely the right to life. The major debate at stake concerns the challenges of grey areas in human rights violation, ‘objective’ standards, and ‘greater good.’ Examples of the United States, Indonesia, and China are...
Over time, many laws and government act change, and what was applied before seem absurd and inexplicable. This is what can be said about the death penalty, which in the eighteenth century was prevalent in appointing punishment for the crime. Most of these decisions were unreasonable, unpredictable, and repressive in...
Despite the fact that the death penalty is employed as a criminal sentence in 58 of the 193 United Nations countries throughout the world, the vast bulk of research on capital punishment perspectives has focused on Western countries, primarily the United States. In Alabama, Patricia Blackmon is on death row...
The article by Salk (2015) claims that lethal injection reforms should be revised to be similar to that of human subject research as today they are performed without proper guidance. Here, human subject research is provided in the Common Rule. It also argues that lethal injection is a subject of...
Capital punishment defines sentencing the convicted offenders to death for crimes considered most serious (capital crimes) and executing that sentence. In the USA, crimes that can lead to imposing capital punishment include, but are not limited to, espionage, large-scale drug trafficking, treason, and murder (Thinley & Ziegler Jr, 2020). There...
Utilitarianism is a conception of morality where the acceptability of a certain action or practice matches the degree to which it fosters happiness. Simply stated, this philosophy aims at “the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of people,” giving preference to the solutions whose consequences are the closest...
Introduction The death penalty is also known as capital punishment from a legal perspective. It refers to implementing the law on an offender who is sentenced to death after lawful processes in a criminal offense’s verdict. Death sentences do not comprise extrajudicial killings undertaken without permissible consideration, mostly by police...
Introduction The history of capital punishment is long, and since ancient times, people have used the death penalty to punish murderers, pedophiles, and other offenders. However, within the last century, people changed their attitudes to capital punishment. In many countries, this sentence method is abolished, while in other countries, it...
The death penalty as capital punishment in the modern world is seen rather as an unnecessary measure associated with ethical concerns. In the United States, this practice is authorized in some states, while in most of the country it has been abandoned. The dominant part of the Western world proclaims...
Introduction Death Penalty justice is one of the controversial subjects in the USA justice system (Stevenson 79). Judges bear the burden of deciding someone’s future, especially when accused of significant crimes against humanity, such as murder. Over the years, the controversial death penalty has been handed out while others who...
As a rule, there are several examples of resonant cases for any sufficiently controversial and acute social issue. For example, the death penalty by Troy Davis in Georgia caused an outcry around the world (Brown-Dean and Jones 323). The protracted trial was complex on the families of both Davis himself...
Introduction Relative to many European states, U.S. criminal procedure is characterized by the presence of an active death penalty. Although it has been frozen or abolished in most countries, there is an ongoing debate in America about its effectiveness. This can be explained by the fact that despite the Constitution’s...
Punishment is a tool widely used by society to discourage people from engaging in unlawful actions. The punishment subjected to individuals varies considerably depending on the crime one has committed. Law enforcement officers apprehend suspected criminals and prosecute them in a court of law. The judges utilize presented evidence to...
Today, when more and more countries opt to abolish the death penalty, the issue of whether it is necessary or not is especially relevant. People may be imprisoned or sentenced to death in different parts of the world for similar crimes. On the one hand, governments are propelled by the...
Abstract The death penalty involves sentencing a criminal to death for their crime. It began in the United States in 1608 and is still practiced in 27 states today as the federal government has authorized it. Capital punishment mostly affects black people, the mentally ill, and the poor because they...
Ethical Question: Should capital punishment be used for crimes other than first-degree murder? Introduction Capital punishment has always been one of the most controversial issues. The controversy behind the enactment of capital punishment lies in the perplex of multiple considerations including, race, human dignity, constitutionality, and practical effectiveness in preventing crimes....
The issues of life and death have remained one of the most controversial in society and various sciences, including psychology. This topic has been especially actively discussed recently with the submission of an act on abolishing the death penalty in the United States in early 2021. However, the question of...
It is no secret that capital punishment has always been a topic surrounded by controversies in many humanitarian disciplines such as philosophy, law, and sociology. It is mainly due to its relation to other paramount social themes such as the sacredness of human life and its cost, the power of...
First of all, in order to define the expediency of the death penalty in particular cases, it is necessary to understand what kind of crimes justifies the offender’s murder. From a personal perspective, a person’s life should be given if another life was taken by him – in other words,...
Capital punishment has posed a moral dilemma that is attracting conflicting opinions from various scholars. Capital punishment is based on the assumption that justice for particular offenses can only be attained by putting the prospective perpetrator to death. In modern times, capital offenses usually comprise murder, crimes against humanity, genocide,...
Introduction First Lady of the United States and actress Nancy Davis Reagan once said, “I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.” Even though capital punishment is frequently considered immoral and inhumane, it may prevent or mitigate the chance of serious crimes, including...
Capital punishment is too harsh discipline, no matter what the person has done. It was invented in ancient times for the legal destruction of hazardous criminals and all people who did not fit into society for any reason. An experimental theory of solving global problems took root cause of society’s...
Human fallibility will always be present in capital punishment cases, regardless of the objectivity of the process or the distance that jurors put between themselves and the person on trial. The first issue is the underlying human bias. Each person has it and it cannot be consciously eliminated. In the...
Summary In the USA, unlike in Europe, there is such a punishment for people who have broken the law as the death penalty. Although many states have stopped performing it, the majority, including California, still impose the death sentence on felony defendants. There are several ways of performing the death...
Crime and justice have significant impacts on society. The two terms have been widely discussed in the history of the judiciary. Different countries have various ways of dealing with crime. There are degrees of punishment for offenders depending on the crimes they have committed. Even so, capital punishment is not...
Capital punishment can also refer to as the death penalty or execution. It is done upon conviction by a court of law for a criminal offense. It is administered through lethal injection, electrocution, hanging, gas chamber, or a firing squad (Anandavenu, 2019). Some of the transgressions resulting in capital punishment...
American legislators, public activists, human rights defenders, and others are in acute arguments about what punishment most dangerous and brutal criminals should receive. Even though numerous people are sure that the death penalty is required, many reasons demonstrate that capital punishment should be canceled or replaced. Thus, it is rational...
The death penalty has always held a special place in public consciousness. It is worth talking about the death penalty as an instrument of criminal policy and a socio-cultural phenomenon, and attitudes to it are an indicator. The attitude of society to it is an indicator of the prevailing morals...
The mental state component in death penalty defendants should be considered to determine whether they deserve a death sentence or life imprisonment sentence. Schizophrenia might impair the decision-making ability, so the offender may not understand the consequences of a committed crime. Mental health conditions can interfere with the capacity to...
Discussions about the legality and necessity of the death penalty have always been relevant. The death sentence was one of the oldest types of punishment, but today the question of the humaneness and proportionality of such a measure has arisen. In ‘Gregg v Georgia,’ the court argued that the punishment...
Introduction The debate about capital punishment is a never-ending one that continues to polarize opposing and supporting camps. Capital punishment has always been reserved for use against the criminal who commits the most heinous crimes. Still, there are two distinct schools of thought when it comes to the death penalty....
Today, the problems that the modern world faces have become more evident – problems, first of all, social, psychological, and spiritual. The appeal to traditional religions is understood as an integral part of the experience accumulated by a person. Of particular interest is the analysis of the positions of Christian...
Historically, the crowds of people gathered in the squares to see how criminals were hanged, beheaded, or burned. The executions in more ancient times were even more brutal, such as pouring boiling resin or impaling criminals. Nevertheless, these methods did not scare off the audience or restrict them. On the...
The issue of capital punishment has always been a divisive topic in both social discussion agenda and philosophy in general. Today, the problem has been linked to a new emerging point of contention, prison abolition, and it is essential to understand how the two are connected. Historically, capital punishment was...
Some scientists and practitioners are completely against the use of the death penalty and for its immediate abolition, explaining this by the immorality and inexpediency of such a punishment. Others support the use of the death penalty, considering it not only as a legal restriction, but also as the physical...
History of the Death Penalty, Globally and in Texas The idea of punishing crimes with death is far from being new. According to the existing historical accounts, the earliest death penalty laws date back to the 1800s B.C., when the King Hammurabi of Babylon implemented it as a penalty for...
The notion of the death penalty is one of the most divisive issues in societies worldwide since it raises numerous related questions concerning ethics, morality, and humanity. The problematic nature of the debate about whether it is acceptable to implement the death penalty lies in the fact that it essentially...
During a war, the government often has to make complex, serious, and conflicting decisions that can greatly affect the well-being of the country and the course of the war. Moreover, if the President understands that a country, organization, or person poses an actual or potential threat, the authorities’ responsibility is...
Introduction The ethnographic group for the study comprised people supporting the death sentence penalty. As the sole creator, only God has the right to take a person’s life. No one, regardless of legal qualification, has the mandate to kill another human. The research team involved students because of their accessibility....
The death penalty is a cruel punishment for terrible crimes. When I first thought about it and imagined the crimes for which such a sentence can be imposed, my reaction was to support death penalty. However, thinking about this issue longer and studying related data, I came to the opposite...
One of the cruelest punishments in human history is the death penalty. This judgment has been known to society since biblical times. The event’s roots date back to ancient times when the custom of blood feuds was widespread. During this period of human history, the torturer of evil was destroyed...
Introduction Among other methods of punishing violent crimes, the death penalty is the most discussed one. This form of justice implies execution for committing a homicide. Although it is challenging for many people to accept the necessity of capital punishment, this approach is considered useful in some countries. I believe...
The topic of the necessity of capital punishment is one of the primary sources of political and social debates in the past few decades. People who continue to insist on the need of the death penalty consider it to be a justified measure against a criminal under the Constitution, as...
Introduction The future of the human civilization relies on the establishment of laws and codes of conduct that are to be followed by all members of the society. While some people will follow the established norms without any external incentives to do so, not everyone can be trusted upon to...
Capital punishment includes various sentences including death as a penalty for serious violations of criminal laws (Lowe, 2004). Capital punishments for various reasons are not something new, but rather it is a practice that has been exercised throughout history. Currently, the United States uses various forms of death penalties as...
Abstract This paper explores different arguments advanced in four published articles, which investigate the constitutionality of imposing death penalties for juveniles and mentally retarded patients. These articles differ in the reasons for rejecting death penalties for juveniles and mentally ill patients; however, they build on past cases, which have involved...
The death penalty has been an imprescriptible regulation in American society for decades. This regulation was regarded as an important deterrent to severe crimes, and a means of protecting the community from dangerous individuals. However, the spread of humanistic ideas led to questioning the very right of the government to...
Death penalty is the highest form of punishment and a debate whether to abolish it has created huge public attention (walker, 2009). According to numerous polls, many people are in support of principal punishment and a survey done by Harrison polls in the US shows that two-thirds (2/3) of Americans...
Bohm, R. (2011). Death Quest: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Capital Punishment in the United States. Amsterdam: Elsevier. This book begins by providing a history of the death penalty, which can be traced to colonial days. The author describes all legal procedures involved in sentencing a criminal to...
Introduction Capital punishment is a legal procedure where a person found guilty of certain crimes receives a death sentence as a punishment for the crime committed. Death sentencing is the judicial decree that results in capital punishment. Whereby, execution is the process of ending the life of the sentenced person....
Introduction The issue of the death penalty is a highly emotive topic in the United States of America that has attracted criticism, as well as support in equal measure. In their arguments, proponents of the death penalty in America such as Rozenman (2007) bring out a convincing and precise justification...
Capital punishment by death is an old practice. The Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, and other groups, imposed the death penalty for certain crimes such as adultery and helping slaves to escape. Surprisingly, murder was not one of the crimes. Various methods were employed in executing death sentences. These included crucifying, drowning,...
As the matter of fact, labeling is an essential part of the human nature. People usually stereotype not only nations but also particular groups based on occupational, race, or religious characteristics. The labeling approach is commonly used in the criminology and research of the deviance (Lilly, Ball, & Cullen, 2015)....
Introduction In the course of social evolution and globalization, people and nations form a consensus that certain practices can no longer be acceptable. Examples of such practices include slavery, physical torture, and capital punishment. Much progress has been made to end such practices. In fact, most countries in the world...
Death Penalty The issue of capital punishment has caused a lot of controversy in Maryland, at the start of the 21st century. The General Assembly accused the courts of being biased against African Americans and stated that the execution of the innocent might become a real issue (Decther & Smitherman...
Introduction The death penalty, also referred to as capital punishment, can be defined as “the premeditated and planned taking of a human life by a government in response to a crime committed by that legally convicted person” (White 1). It is, perhaps, the most controversial aspect of law enforcement. To...
Introduction Death penalty is considered one of the extremely volatile issues in America. The debate on the subject has caused a lot of divisions in the America society. There are those who consider it as a justifiable mode of punishment that can deter crime whereas others consider it a form...
Introduction Capital punishment or the death penalty has been described as the harshest form of punishment for certain crimes such as murder, treason, and violence. The issue of capital punishment elicits heated debates among religious, political, and theological scholars. Proponents argue that capital punishment deters crime by discouraging individuals from...
Introduction This essay briefly examines research methods for criminal justice in regard to capital punishment. The topic of the paper is correlation between knowledge and support of capital punishment. In examining this topic the paper will explain the purpose of a project which can be carried out based on the...
Introduction The research will focus on the correlation between knowledge and support of capital punishment. It is no doubt that whenever the issue of capital punishment is brought to public debate, there will be always two major sides: the opposers and supporters. It is worth noting that both sides do...
The first event that we need to discuss is the execution of Robert Lee Gardiner. The main reason why this event attracted so much attention was the method of execution. The convicted person chose to be killed by a firing squad (Donaldson, 1996, unpaged). Gardiner gave virtually no explanation for...
The death penalty has been a largely debated form of punishment within the criminal justice system of the united states of America since its inception. The law supporting this unkind and unfair sentence was thus, put under scrutiny, and consequently, several death sentences were either overturned or could only be...
Abstract Texas is leading among states practicing capital punishment for a criminal offense. While the proponents of the death penalty belief that it is the best way to deter criminal offenders from the act, reports suggest that the rate of crime has not been reduced any better than states that...
The issue of capital punishment has over the years elicited serious concerns causing endless debates on the legitimacy, morality or even the justness of executing criminals convicted of serious crimes. There is a multi faceted campaign against the practice which has led to many countries abolishing it as they take...
Introduction The United States is the leading country in the world with the highest number of persons incarcerated in jails and prisons; and also the leading country with the highest number of prisons, most of which have been built over the last few decades (Parenti, 1999). In the United States,...
The death penalty is lawful in the U.S, which is currently being implemented by twenty-eight states, the military, the federal government, and American Samoa. The aforementioned sanction inherently contravenes the constitutional proscription against the unusual and cruel punishment and the justification/grounds for equal protection and due process of law (Ahmad...
Introduction The use of capital punishment was practiced throughout the world during ancient times and the move to abolish only began in the 18th century and has seen almost half of the countries in the world abolish the practice however others like China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the USA are...
The death penalty has been a debatable subject for many years. The people who support capital punishment base their arguments on its vengeance for victims and their family members. The need for vengeance is comprehensible, but it is anchored in the sentiments of victims and their families. The court is...
Introduction Death penalty, sometimes referred to as capital penalty, is taking the life of a person through a judicial process due to an offense committed. Capital crimes such as murder and offenses related to drugs are the kind of crimes that result in death penalty. Death penalty has been removed...
Abstract This paper looks at both the positive and negative aspects of the death penalty. It tries to discern the practice of capital punishment from the law and look at it from different perspectives. The paper also looks at the implication of death sentence and how the death sentence of...
Do we really need the death penalty? You might think that the death penalty is the only way of keeping the worst persons far away from our society but much evidence points the other way. On a practical level, the practice is not a deterrent to future crimes. On a...
On the path of its development, humankind is leaning toward increasingly humane methods of providing justice and executing punishment. However, at the same time, the legislation of a number of countries, guaranteeing everyone the right to life, still retains the possibility of applying an extremely cruel method of punishment ‑...
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is often equated to a life sentence in terms of its severity. Any citizen who has committed a serious crime may be deprived of their life as a punishment. Execution happens when a person is found guilty and sentenced to death. It...
Introduction Capital punishment also referred to as the death penalty, is debatably the most contentious legal sentence given by the criminal justice system in any country around the world. It stands out from other forms of legal punishments attributable to its cruelty and brutality to a point of causing intentional...
The death penalty is a phenomenon whose legitimacy, efficiency, and morality still divide society. In the United States, since the Supreme Court reaffirmed that constitutionality of death penalty in 1977, it has been used in 1,480 cases, primarily through a lethal injection. Only the most heinous crimes, such as murder...
