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The death penalty is defined in Merriam-Webster Dictionary as execution imposed in a

court of law as punishment for a crime. The death penalty is a highly debated issue with

considerable debate within states, and people. The United States remains one of the few nations

in the world, to still use death as penalty for certain crimes. I am an idealist of capital

punishment. The death penalty guarantees that those executed will not commit any further crimes

they no longer endanger humanity, and is morally justified.

Capital punishment for the death penalty is a guarantee that those executed will not

commit any further crime. If the death penalty is not imposed the offender may no longer be a

danger to society, but he remains a danger to prison staff and other inmates behind bars. The

families of those victimized may feel relief and closer to enable them to move forward. The

impulse for revenge is potent and natural imposing the death penalty not only hinders the peace

prevention's but is the ultimate deterrent.

The death penalty punishment is a way to put into effect for better offenses. The capital

punishment is a very contentious issue in the United States and throughout this globe. There was

one period of time were the capital punishment was banned for almost four years at 1972-1976.

Some think that the execution is justice because it constitutes revenge toward criminals who have

committed evil crimes. Yet this execution is cruel and should be abolished in the United States.

The capital punishment has been about since the start of society. “death penalty has been

practiced in most recognized societies at the course of humans past." The death penalty is an

effective deterrent to crime, but it has also been used as a deterrent against the capital

punishment that Death Penalty may be considered one of these most debated topics in the United
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States. It is the judicially ordered murder of a prisoner for a severe crime, often called the capital

offense. There are some people that oppose the execution and so there are some people who exist

for the execution. People who argue the corporal punishment think that it is not humane or it

might be overly costly. The people who are for the execution think that 3,261 people go on death

house “dying”. Lesser than 9,000 people sleep in a city called Lindon Utah, so to me that issue is

horrific. Inmates that move on the execution jail make a question for everyone in this nation. If

we could move these inmates through the execution quickly, we would get this issue off from

these people. Why do we keep murderers and criminals on death house about? People debate the

controversial issue of the capital punishment really good, and address it with an argument that I

believe will help them out. Historical data on this Death Payment: Past of Capital Punishment

jurisprudence, that USA and those Capital Punishment; this USA law and this killing Penalty:

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Capital Punishment Laws: Capital Punishment at the Federal Level.

As humans, we live on a planet with limited resources. Individuals who have committed

crimes that are worthy of the death penalty are not only causing the human species harm through

the crimes they commit but they are drawing on limited Resources. Life imprisonment drains

limited resources by providing the basic needs of food, shelter, medical care, and even

educational opportunities that productive citizens' can be denied.

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Morality according to Merriam-Webster dictionary is defined as “The principles of right

and wrong.” As moral creatures, humans deserve praise for good deeds, and punishment for bad

ones. The punishment must fit the crime. This serves justice. The death penalty is not murder.

Murder is killing an innocent victim. Those on death row are neither innocent nor victims. The

moral code of society is to protect the people, not protect those who committed terrible crimes.

Why is it that people who seem to help the death penalty are ready to leave the idea of

favor for alternative sentences? The statement may lie in the fact that people who help the death

penalty however hold serious questions about it which are sparked by some of execution's

repeated issues. Likewise, people are unaware of the broad changes that have happened in the

current amount of time which convicted murderers would take to provide for their offenses.

Supports of this execution indicate that it is not the cruel and unusual punishment. They think

that the framers of the law endorsed the execution, so it is absurd to assert that cruel and unusual

punishment relates to the execution. Moreover, they argue it is logically impossible to be cruel

while punishing the convicted criminal for murdering the innocent person. Capital punishment

supporters think morally, it is wrong to incarcerate somebody for homicide. The death penalty is

something that many people do not have a clear decision on. Many people support the death

penalty, while others wish for the death penalty to be abolished, yet there are some that support

the death penalty, but only in certain cases. My personal opinion is that a person commits murder

and is sentenced to death there should be no waiting. I believe 24 hours from the time the person

is sentenced to death; the state should follow through with their punishment and execute.

The death penalty is a controversial issue among the public because it can be used to

deter crime and murder for example, Boyd's death sentence is one of the most controversial cases
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in American history and here’s why. On December 2, 2005 - The execution of Kenneth Lee

Boyd in North Carolina marks the 1,000th time the death penalty has been carried out since it

was reinstated by the Supreme Court in 1976. Boyd, 57, is executed for the 1988 murder of his

wife, Julie Curry Boyd, and father-in-law, Thomas Dillard Curry. Highlighted 115 crimes that

were punishable by death. At the same time, a classic example of a country applying the death

penalty is England, insofar as it occupies first place in this regard. Back in the 18th century, Sir

William Blakestone counted 160 crimes that were punishable by death. There were also eras in

history when this number rose to 240 in England. A number of 1263 of men and women have

been executed in the United States in the twenty-five years ever since the Supreme Court has

reintroduced the death penalty in 1976. Executions have been carried in the 31 states with the

death penalty, with more than 80% taking place in the south. Texas and Virginia being the two

top death penalty states with a shared number of 580 people executed. The death penalty is a

controversial issue that has been debated for years.

According to the 2017 Gallup Poll, 55% of Americans sustain the execution. It might be

weak, and down 5% at a similar poll taken in 2016, but this figure still constitutes the majority.

Whether or not you exist at the age, here are some possible reasons why most Americans support

death penalty. But do they really constitute judge for victims? Proponents of capital punishment

say that the pain associated with the murder of the death house prisoner is not unlikely. Yet the

U.S. Supreme Court has rejected this 8 Amendment situation which said that the agent used to

make the illegal coma-like unconscious before injecting the deadly drug is not able to do so

completely. this individual. Death Penalty or capital punishment is the sentence of execution for

the crime of murder and some other capital crime (serious crimes especially murder, punishable
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by death). The death penalty was practiced in the United States from since colonial times until

today. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, 1,289 people have been executed as

of this date. 1,115 of which were executed by lethal injection. This is said to be the least painful

method of death compared to the other methods like electrocution of the criminal.

Currently there are 31 states with the death penalty and 19 states with a ban against it

(Death Penalty). The death penalty as capital punishment has faced much opposition as more and

more states lean against it. My idealism does not support either sides of capital punishment by

guaranteeing future crimes not be committed, by not endangering society or drawing on limited

resources, and this is morally justified.

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