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Does Capital Punishment Solve the Problem?
Is capital
punishment the solution for crime in a social society? Capital punishment can
prevent a person that is convicted of murderer from committing more murders
(Moore 62). In addition, it eliminates the possibility that a person will
commit the same crime twice (Moore 62). On the other hand, capital punishment
does not fix the pain that is felt by the murder victims (Cushing 30). The pain
that is endured by the murder victims should be considered more than the person
that was convicted of murder (Cushing 30). Furthermore, capital punishment does
not always convict the criminals correctly (Haslet-Davis 31). Capital
punishment does not provide a proper solution for crime prevention in a social
society.
Capital punishment is
capable of preventing a convict from committing a crime that is very
destructive (Moore 62). Some crimes that a person commits are so severe that a
society would consider using the death penalty as punishment. In the case of Edenfield vs. State, a person was
convicted in the state of Georgia for rape and murder (Moore 62). The victim
was a six year old girl and was badly abused (Moore 62). The state of Georgia
considered the death penalty to be the most suitable choice of action for the
perpetrator who committed this terrible act (Moore 62). Because the performance
of the crime was so dreadful, the state decided to deny Edenfield a chance for
parole (Moore 62). According to the testament of one of the jurors, who
attended the trial for Edenfield vs.
State, “…………I couldn’t consider the possibility of parole because it could
happen again” (Moore 62). Clearly, the capital punishment was very acceptable
in this situation. But, did the capital punishment make an example for others
to follow or did it just kill one man for committing a crime to a child. There
are many people who consider the capital punishment as a force to prevent more
actions of violence from occurring but, some would suggest that it does not fix
the problem completely.
Renny Cushing, a victim of murder,
disagrees with the concept that capital punishment is necessary for preventing
people from committing crimes because killing a person does not bring another
person back. Cushing’s father and brother was murdered inside their own home
(Cushing 30). Cushing experienced the pain and depression of losing someone you
love. He had to go to a kitchen table and sit with two chairs that was empty
(Cushing 30). He thought about regret and getting revenge on the person that
committed the crime (Cushing 30). But, he realize that killing the perpetrator
was not going to fix the pain that he felt inside for losing his loved ones
(Cushing 30). Cushing believes that when a person loses a loved one, they tend
to dwell on the pain for such a long period of time that they forget about how
much time has went by. They forget about what it feels like to live in the
present (Cushing 30). Capital punishment does not end the pain that is felt by
the victims of the perpetrator (Cushing 30). There are some actions committed
by a person that can cut so deep that revenge cannot patch up.
Furthermore, Cushing also believes
that the reason the capital punishment does not fix the problem of crimes being
committed is because the victims of the crimes have needs that is not addressed
(Cushing 30). The victims of crimes are often thrown back into criminal
environments and live with this deep hole of sadness (Cushing 30). Then the
victims spend large amounts of time being depressed for losing a loved one
(Cushing 30). They forget about what the dead person did when they were alive
(Cushing 30). The victims should be assisted with counseling in order to deal
with their tragedy instead of sentencing the perpetrator to death for
committing a very violent crime to another (Cushing 30). Capital punishment may
cease the chance of a person to commit a terrible act of violence twice, but it
will not fix the pain that the victims feels or bring the victim’s loved ones
back (Cushing 30). The pain that is felt can cause that person to commit another
crime. Capital punishment can stop a crime from happening by a single person,
but cannot stop another person who was victimized from committing another crime.
A person that was victimized by a crime might want to seek violence in order to
obtain a sense of justice for a crime that he or she believes that a person was
wrongly convicted of. In a sense, violence can only perpetrate more violence in
a social society instead of preventing it with the use of capital punishment.
Capital punishment does not always
punish the right criminals (Haslet-Davis 31). Capital punishment is often used
in a social society to prevent actions from being created by a violent
criminal, but if the punishment that was made on the person was not rightly
convicted then nothing will be solved (Haslet-Davis 31). If a person was punish
too severely for a crime, then the punishment is flawed. Most social societies
today believe that the capital punishment is truthful (Haslet-Davis 31).
However, there is no guarantee that the capital punishment will always kill the
right criminal (Haslet-Davis 31). According to Virginia attorney Mark Earley, society
is taught this concept that the death penalty is one hundred percent accurate
in its conviction (Haslet-Davis 31). That concept is based on a false premise
that was created in an imaginary utopian world (Haslet-Davis 31). The death
penalty is not capable of preventing crimes from happening in a social society
because sometimes the person that is being convicted is innocent (Haslet-Davis
31).
In fact, Texas considers the
capital punishment to be nothing more than a failed experiment that was once
used used to prevent crimes (Drehle 28). Texas, a state in the United States, is
well known for using the capital punishment (Drehle 28). In the year 2000,
almost 40 people were sentenced to death in the state of Texas (Drehle 28). Then
in begging of the year 2015, 10 people were sentenced to death in the state of
Texas (Drehle 28). This evidence of death sentences in the state of Texas would
indicate that the death penalty is not preventing people from committing more
crimes as social society is believed to be (Drehle 28). The death penalty seems
to provoke more people to commit acts of violence either because people were
sentenced wrongly or because the death penalty was not efficient enough for the
criminals (Drehle 28). Due these statistics, states in United States are
starting to abolish the death penalty (Drehle 29). According to the U.S.
courts, the number of death penalties being carried over the past 20 years was
around 72 which is the lowest number of death penalties in United States’
history (Drehle 29). The country of United States is mostly convinced that the
death penalty is an ineffective tool for preventing crime in a social society
(Drehle 29).
Can the capital punishment
truly prevent crime from occurring in a social society? The capital punishment
cannot prevent crime from occurring in social society. However, there are some
crimes that are so dreadful and inhumane that a society should consider using
the death penalty to ensure that a single person will not commit the same crime
twice (Moore 62). Crimes that are as severe as raping a child should deserve a
death penalty to ensure that the children in a social society do not have to endure
the pain that their parents had to endure (Moore 62). On the other hand, the
capital punishment does not stop people from committing crimes in a society. A
victim of a crime is capable of committing a crime due to the pain that was
caused by a perpetrator (Cushing 30). Pain can make a person become filled with
regret and have a hole in their heart that can cause them to dwell on the past
for a long period of time (Moore 62). Capital punishment does not fix the pain
of the victims that have to eat at a table with two empty seats (Moore
62). Capital punishment was never a solution to a crime. It was just a belief
that if you take your revenge on someone, you will be better off in your own
life (Cushing 30). The country of United States does not believe in using
capital punishment as a way to prevent crimes in a social society (Drehle 29). The
capital punishment is not an accurate method for punishment even though it is
believed to be (Haslet-Davis 31). The capital punishment is an imaginary
utopian concept that is used to give people that are living in a social society
the idea that problems can be solved in black and white, but sometimes in a
social society problems can be solved in white and black (Haslet-Davis 31). Is
capital punishment really necessary? The truth, there is no yes or no answer
for this question because some people need to die for their crimes and some
people do not need to die because they do not deserve it.
Work
Cited
Cushing, Renny,
and Adrianne Haslet-Davis. "Should The Death Penalty Live?" Time
185.21 (2015): 30-31. Academic Search Complete. Web. 11 June 2015.
Moore, Josh D.
"Death Penalty." Mercer Law Review 66.1 (2014): 51-64. Academic
Search Complete. Web. 11 June 2015.
Von Drehle,
David. "Bungled Executions. Backlogged Courts. And Three More Reasons The
Modern Death Penalty Is A Failed Experiment. (Cover Story)." Time 185.21
(2015): 26-33. Academic Search Complete. Web. 11 June 2015.
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