Help on Capital Punishment !!?

Question

i have an exam on cp it has alot in it !!! i have 2 weeks to do it and i need help about a famous person strongly for or strongly against capital punishment plese help me research x

Answer 1

Check out www.deathpenaltyinfo.org
Specifically, Mike Farrell (MASH) is the major spokesman for Death Penalty Focus, the biggest anti death penalty organization in California.

A really terrific resource on the death penalty specifically for students is 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.

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

For what it's worth, my personal views have been most strongly influenced by J.R.R. Tolkien (who, incidentally, was Catholic):

'He deserves death.'

'Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.'

Answer 3

The catholic church is against it, so are many hollywood actors.