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Social Studies
10/23/03
Death Penalty
The Death penalty is a method of punishment as old as civilization itself. The death penalty has been imposed throughout history for many crimes. Capital Punishment is the legal infliction of the death penalty on a person convicted of a crime. ... The usual alternative to the death penalty is life in prison. ... A long stethoscope is attached to the inmate so that a doctor outside the chamber can pronounce death. ... They believe that the death penalty is morally and socially unethical. ... 139 of the 350 were sentenced to death, and 23 were actually executed. ...
One of the many arguments for the death penalty is the use of tax dollars going towards
maintaining murderers, rapist and thieves. ... The believe that people who kills without regret and rapes innocent victims
continuously dose not deserve to live, they believe these people deserve nothing less than the death
penalty. ... They believe that when a criminal is sentenced to death and that
execution is carried out that the other criminal will get the picture and think twice both doing that crime
because they know death awaits. ...
Inequalities of the Death Penalty
Today’s system of capital punishment is filled with inequalities and injustices. Opponents of the
death penalty have shown the death penalty to be racist. In the United States legal system, there exist a lot
of ways justice is poorly serve a person of the death sentence. ...
Racism and the Death Penalty
Throughout history, minorities have been ill represented in the criminal justice system
particularly in capital cases.
Approximate Word count = 1288
Approximate Pages = 5.2
(250 words per page double spaced)
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