Youth in Asia
(Euthanasia)
Joyce and Mark
The Death penalty allows the government to remove the felons that are most likely to continue to repeat crimes. Research and statistics provided by the Bureau of Justice Statistics state that About 68 percent of 405,000 prisoners released in 30 states in 2005 were arrested for a new crime within three years of their release from prison, and 77 percent were arrested within five years. On top of that, prisoners that are released after serving time is the most likely to relapse back into crime.
More statistics reveal that within five years of release, 82 percent of property offenders were arrested for a new crime, compared to 77 percent of drug offenders, 74 percent of public order offenders and 71 percent of violent offenders. Those who break the laws after being released are often charged for weapon offenses, driving under the influence, or other unspecified crimes.
This questions the release of such lawbreakers and presses for a new method to bring a stop to these cruel actions. Regardless of their captivity in prison, the majority fails to learn from their mistakes and almost 58% of released prisoners are arrested for public order offence within a time span of five years. 39% allegedly abused drugs, 38% committed property offense, and 29% violent offense. Once a person has been convicted of a crime, it becomes increasingly challenging for that person to resist the temptations of committing another transgression.
Not only do these convicts burden society, the labels society forces onto them also burden them as well. In most states, criminal conviction comes with great consequences, even after one is released from prison. In some instances, they are banned from public housing, are unable to receive public assistance, and discriminated by their employers. It is extremely difficult for these felons to obtain opportunities and establish ties within their community.
Therefore, death penalties should be implemented inn order to end these delinquents’ miseries. Though it may sound harsh, it can in other ways ultimately benefit not only the safety of a community, but also the well being of a criminal.
It conducts examples to those who plan to bring more chaos into the world, by setting a radical punishment as the consequences. The death penalty is a way to reduce crime rates by eliminating the criminals that commit them in the first place.
Dorothy and Grace
Dorothy became interested in this topic after she heard her SAT teacher give his argument and opinion about capital punishment. She never really thought about it before at all, but she began to think about it and the consequences it created. After her group decided to research this topic, she really began to delve into information about it and ame to the conclusion that the death penalty is very effective.
Grace had heard about and understood the controversy regarding the death penalty, but had never really gotten a chance to research it thoroughly before. She simply believed that the death penalty was not immoral due to the humane way the criminals are executed. Grace learned much more about the death penalty through writing an article.
After conducting lots of research, she decided that she believed even more that capital punishment should be implemented.
We believe that implementing the death penalty is beneficial for society. We did not know enough about it first to make a stand, but after going though a lot of research, we found more positive aspects than negative aspects. Some people believe that the death penalty is immoral, but actually it is the most humane way possible to execute a person. Capital punishment is the least gruesome way to execute someone; it is simply an injection that is injected while the person is unconscious.
Also, statistics show that countries with more executions have lower crime rates. China and Iraq both have had more executions than the United States. Consequently, China has 1/5 the murder rates of the United States and Iran has 1/2 the murder rates of the United States.
Also, we believe that executing criminals who have committed horrendous crimes does not actually deprive them of an opportunity to prove their self-worth. It has been proven that recidivism, or being rearrested after being released from incarceration, is very common. Sometimes in life, sacrifices have to be made to create something better. We realized that executing murderers may seem ironic, but they are not innocent people. Not everyone is perfect, they crossed the line to inhumanity and justice must be served. After completing their research, Grace and Dorothy both came to an agreement that the United States should act upon the death penalty again. The United States should take advantage of the good outcomes that come with capital punishment.
Austin and Jonathan
The death penalty we here about it everywhere and think of it as both a positive and negative I for one think of it as a partly negative and partly positive as they both provide positive effects to the community, but if I were to choose one then it would be that the death penalty has a negative effect against the community. I mean, haven't you seen the movie "The Green Mile" starring Tom Hanks as a man with a urinary infection whom later gets it cured by one of the inmates that have a supernatural power that heals people and absorbs their sicknesses within himself.
Tom Hanks realizes that he cannot tell the officials about his inmates powers, so he is forced to put him on the electric chair due to him not having any evidence his powers.What I am trying to say is that innocent people are accused of being murderers whether on their race, religion, or ethnicity. I just wish that people would not be so ignorant about how they judge a person's case by what they either believe in, their skin color, or where they were derived from , culturally.
Not only does the death penalty discriminate against people, but it also affects the people's jobs and income, according to deathpenaltyinfo.org people are not only losing their jobs as security guards, but inmates are forced to be sent to different facilities as they cannot afford to keep them. So, what difference would it make for the people to keep the prisoners alive? The other inmates wouldn't have to suffer moving to different cities or states just because one person had to be sent to death.
Why are we focusing on the people who might be innocent when there are police officers that are corrupt and kill more innocent people? Do you think that giving them some jail time would make the families feel better about how their husbands, sons, daughters, or wives have just been killed by the very people whom protect them? Obviously not, the police were made to protect and abide the laws, not twist it and create loopholes in order to give them a chance of getting away with murder. Those types of things get on my nerve, but I do believe that the death penalty is morally incorrect, yet it is politically right.