The Positive Effect of Capital Punishment in Modern America

Ronnie Kuester Dr. Borgmeyer Eng. Comp. II 30 Sept. 2010 The Positive Effect of Capital penalization in Modern America I dont value you should support the dying penalisation to turn aroundk revenge. I dont think thats right. I think the reason to support the stopping point penalization is because it saves other races lives (Bush). Capital penalty is unrivaled of the almost controversial topics in the American society and is likewise one of the topics most great deal feel very emotional about. Everyone feels that their views are dress because there are humany pros and cons to either side.Although some people cerebrate the risk of executing the innocent is too great, the use of chief city punishment has greatly impacted our society in a positive look because of its deterring do, economic benefits, and the prevailing of only whenice. The deterrent frame is definitely one of the biggest benefits to having capital punishment. When people have the knowledge that the y could be attaind for k complainting somebody else it often turns them a appearance from shipting the murder. Tanner from Fort-Worth Star Telegram thinks that the deterrent effect has paraden to prevent between three and eighteen murders(Wood 601).Most people in current America have heard of the expiration penalty, yet they gloss over excite the umbrages that are punishable by death. Since people know about it and still do it, they are basic anyy accepting the sentence, unless they are mentally ill and in which cause do non get sentenced to death. Naci Mocans study, from the University of Colorado, bespeak that, Statistical stu go againsts like his are among a dozen papers since 2001 that show capital punishment has deterrent effects(Wood 602). Abolitionists argue that the deterrent effect is only estimates and are not actually proven to deter murders.However, knowing, by dint of many studies, that three to eighteen innocent people could be deliver by executing each co nvicted killer greatly outweighs the benefits to letting the murderer off the hook. Although, the deterrent effect is the sterling(prenominal) benefit to having capital punishment, the economic problem is also very important. A suggested alternative to the death penalty is emotional state in prison without unloosen. This upsets many of the taxpayers, as it should. An article in The Economist states, the idea of spending public money to feed and garb murderers for the rest of their lives revealmed outrageous(Economist 605).Is there a difference to sentencing life in prison or executing someone? In the end they die a captive man. It is delaying the inevitable, but not many people see that. It is not very fair giving man his freedoms afterwards he has taken the lives of others. He himself has not respected the life and liberty that all people should have. Once you take away someones life yours should be taken in return. That is, only if it is murder in the depression degree and the murder was committed intentionally. After being sentenced to life without parole their court dates are not do.Money forecloses getting wasted in the courts after the sentencing. Most convicts are still trying to get a rock-bottom sentence or get parole. Convicts passing play through trials for the death penalty and life in prison often have to wait a very long time, which in the process is spending a heap of the tax payers money. Either way, life in prison or the death penalty on average they wait a decade out front a decision is made or the execution is carried out. Other than deterring crime and being economically beneficial, capital punishment also allows justice to prevail.Justice seems to unendingly prevail, but in some instances, this is not the occurrence. However, no innocent benignant has been execute through the use of DNA examination. Only the convicts who commit the worst, most heinous of crimes are even put on death row. Abolitionists see that the brass i s just putting to death someone. However, like the quote at the beginning, the establishment does not have the death penalty just to seek revenge. That is not what the death penalty is about. It is about justice being served and letting people know that murdering will not be acceptable.The government does not execute people to flaunt its power, Foucault agrees when he states, It is ugly to be punishable, there is no glory in punishing(Foucault 10). It is because of this that America, along with many other nations, has done away with torturing as well. The government does respect points of the abolitionists saying it is not right torturing the convicts or causing extreme pain. They have changed their slipway making the execution more humane. In our advance(a) society we do not torture death row inmates anymore.Foucault states that, today we are instead inclined to ignore it perhaps, in its time, it gave rise to too much idealistic rhetoric perhaps it has been attributed too read ily and too emphatically to a process of humanization, thus dispensing with the need for further analysis(Foucault 7). It was mind that torture was a corrective procedure that if they were tortured they would not commit the crime again. However, it is viewed as inhumane to inflict pain on an one-on-one to teach them discipline, especially if they are being put to death anyway. So now we use more humane ways to put people to death that involve little to no pain.Lethal injection is the most modern and safe way to put someone to death. It was first employ in 1977 in Oklahoma but took five years before it was utilize on someone. All of the states except one that have the death penalty use lethal injection. The inmate being punish is bound depressed and has his heart being monitored. Then, they insert two needles into the veins injecting the inmate with Sodium Thiopental. This is an anesthetic(a) which renders the inmate unconscious. Next flows pavulon or Pancuronium Bromide, whic h paralyzes the entire muscle system and shekels the inmates preathing. Finally, the flow of potassium chloride stops the heart.Death results from anesthetic overdoes and respiratory and cardiac arrest while the condemned person is unconscious (Methods). This technique used does not hurt the inmate, which is one of the reasons abolitionists are upset about the death penalty. As for any other method, they get pretty painful and or messy. Death by electrocution, hanging, and gas chamber are all exceedingly painful and do not kill the inmate right away. non only does justice prevail through the government when someone is executed but also people get a religious satisfaction. The watchword specifically states that the death penalty is alright. Whoso sheddeth mans blood, by man shall his blood be shed for in the image of God made he man(Genesis 96). The reason why it is believed people should be executed for killing other human being is because we were made in Gods image and destroy ing or killing that is major offense to God. The Bible also informs its readers that none shall take ransom or money in rally for the murderers life. This is where the justice comes into play. God does not want the government taking money in exchange for someones life. In modern day terms it would be equivalent to posting release or just receiving a fine.That would be unrealistic to do in the case of a murderer being put to death. Abolitionists believe that we should not play God and only those who have not sinned be the ones to hear and cast the first stone so to speak. What most do not realize is that, according to the Bible, God thinks that these murderers should be killed. God is not going to just smite them down. Humans figured out and have understand the Bible and its meanings when saying these things about the death penalty. Most abolitionists greatest problem with the death penalty is executing the innocent. Executing the innocent is extremely rare.Hundreds of people ha ve been released from death row due to DNA testing proving their innocence. This does not mean that they were executed. It is excellent that these people were not wrongly executed and it is because of modern technology that it can be appreciated. However, executing those who have been, without a doubt guilty of committing murder in the first degree should be executed. Throughout the use of DNA testing to possibly help the case of either side, there have been zero cases where and innocent human has been executed. Abolitionists keep seeing that the death penalty is still used despite the way they feel.So they begin to say things like, Killing a murderer does not commence his victim back to life. It achieves nothing but the death of still another person(Robinson). As stated at the beginning of this paper, by having the death penalty be legal it deters certain crime, has economic benefits, and it allows justice to be served. No matter what abolitionists are doing, most of their ideas k eep getting mutable down. There is a reason the majority has always sided with the death penalty, because it just helps out our modern American society.Works Cited Bush, George W. Presidential Debate Washington University athletic Complex. University of St. Louis. 17 Oct. 2000. Speech. Descriptions of Execution Methods. Deathpenaltyinfor. org. Death Penalty Information Center. Web. 22 Sept. 2010. . Foucault, Michel. Chapter 1. 1979. landing field and penalisation. Trans. Alan Sheridan. 3-18. Print. King James Version Bible. Genesis 96. 2004. Robinson, Bruce A. Capital Punishment the Death Penalty. ReligiousTolerance. org by the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance. 04 Aug. 2007. Web. 22 Sept. 2010. . Wood, Nancy V. Perspectives on Argument. sixth ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2009. Print. (601-613).