I'm writing a paper and i need your opinion on the death penalty?

Question

okay i'm doing a paper on death penalty and i need to research both views on it, so i need your opinion on why you think it should be legal or why it should not be . my paper has to be about 5,000 words so yea, tell me as much as you can lol thanks!!!!

exactly how expensive is it for one case? i'm trying to find it but i seem to be unlucky

im from Connecticut btw if that helps

Answer 1

Best resource at www.deathpenaltyinfo.org and for students writing papers, a terrific resource at http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=1917

In the meantime, with sources below, you don't have to sympathize with criminals or want them to avoid a terrible punishment to ask if the death penalty prevents or even reduces crime and to think about the risks of executing innocent people. Your question is much too important to settle without having answers to these questions.
124 people on death rows have been released with proof that they were wrongfully convicted. DNA is available in less than 10% of all homicides and isn’t a guarantee we won’t execute innocent people.

The death penalty doesn't prevent others from committing murder. No reputable study shows the death penalty to be a deterrent. To be a deterrent a punishment must be sure and swift. The death penalty is neither. Homicide rates are higher in states and regions that have it than in states that don’t.

We have a good alternative. Life without parole is now on the books in 48 states. It means what it says. It is sure and swift and rarely appealed. Life without parole is less expensive than the death penalty.

The death penalty costs much more than life in prison, mostly because of the legal process which is supposed to prevent executions of innocent people.

The death penalty isn't reserved for the worst crimes, but for defendants with the worst lawyers. It doesn't apply to people with money. When is the last time a wealthy person was on death row, let alone executed?

The death penalty doesn't necessarily help families of murder victims. Murder victim family members across the country argue that the drawn-out death penalty process is painful for them and that life without parole is an appropriate alternative.

Problems with speeding up the process. Over 50 of the innocent people released from death row had already served over a decade. If the process is speeded up we are sure to execute an innocent person.

Answer 2

I wrote a research paper in oppositon to the death penalty. The main reasons being that it does not deter crime and that it is quite costly. However, there is so much information out there on the topic of the death penalty that you might want to narrow the focus of your paper.

Answer 3

I favor the death penalty and here are a few reasons why. Years ago (well before DNA testing) while working as a bartender part-time to supplment my income while fighting I met an individual that had been investigated concerning a couple of missing young women and their murders. His picture and name had been in the paper for both these investigations and he had a large number of charges against him prior to all this for assualt, battery, and numerous other things. In short he was not a very nice person and he had a reputation in a city of 40,000 to stay away from and avoid and I recognized him. This "customer" ended up being thrown out by me during which he told me to, "watch out for him in the parking lot at night when I closed". Several years later this person was investigated in the abduction and murder of another person and was eventually found guilty of that plus one of the previous ones that they had droped the charges on earlier. He has been in prison now and besides those two murders of young women they have just recently tied through DNA evidence the death of two others to him before he was imprisoned that they did not know about until the bodies were discovered. To me a person like this represents true evil and has murdered four young women, snuffing out their lives for pleasure or thrills. A person like this is wired differently than you or me and can not be rehabiltated. I think the death penalty is an appropriate means of punsihment for someone like this who is so warped that anything that is socially redeeming about them and their lives is far outweighed by their crimes and their inablity to live in a society like ours.

Answer 4

There is no reason we should do the death penalty. I am not sure the exact number, but I think it was 19 people last year that were freed from death row because of insufficient evidence. To think that they made 19 mistakes is absurd!!! And who are we to say who needs to die!!!

Answer 5

The real problem with the death penalty is that it is not used frequently enough and is not administered swiftly
That would create both a deterrent and a cost savings

Answer 6

I'm against it.

The death penalty ...

1. does not deter crime.
2. is not a fair process.
3. is highly expensive.

Answer 7

Death penalty must be legalized as a deterrent for the commission of the crimes.