Topic #5: Ask students to locate credible research that suggests the death penalty

is a general deterrent to murder, and discuss how socialization often perpetuates

discriminatory views and myths about crime and deviance.

Research Essay: David Herdison

March 11th, 2010
Sociology
Death Penalty: Benefit or Detriment?
The statement in question implies the death penalty is a reasonable ethical

stand to murderous crimes. Socialization, in fact, does preserve the bigoted

perception of killing solving killing, however; the government should not continue to

endorse this principle. In comparison to conflictions, facts of differing opinions are

presented with credible research.

Those in support sympathize with victims’ families and hold the death

penalty to be the true reprisal for murder; others empathize with families and

identify the ultimate retribution being regret from the criminals. In comparison of

sympathy and empathy: a sympathizing person benevolently displays a spiritless

mercy; an empathizing postulates a sincere solace with definite ingenuousness.

Those with true contrasting opinions correlate victims’ triumph to the

portrayal of true compunction from murderers, in grasping that murdering murders

doesn’t prevent murder. In retort to deterrence: death penalty enthusiasts revel in

devotion to an otiose expectation of upcoming murders denying their intentions in a

daunted fear of the death penalty, but how can the pragmatic truth be denied? The

truth being, in acts of producing lifelessness, able-minded murderers must lack a

sense of life’s value, holding no worth to their own and no apprehension to lethal

injection.

Whether believers of the death penalty possess differing opinions for

religious, experienced, or persuaded reasons, the reality is, although difficult for the

http://www.truthinjustice.org/deathpen.htm
http://deathpenaltycurriculum.org/student/c/about/arguments/argument1a.htm
Topic #5: Ask students to locate credible research that suggests the death penalty
is a general deterrent to murder, and discuss how socialization often perpetuates
discriminatory views and myths about crime and deviance.

public to comprehend, that not all acts of homicide are done in selfishness and

vengeance does not always generate justice.

http://www.truthinjustice.org/deathpen.htm
http://deathpenaltycurriculum.org/student/c/about/arguments/argument1a.htm