Essay - Both Sides of Death Penalty Death Penalty is One of...

BOTH SIDES OF DEATH PENALTY

Death Penalty is one of the most debated, highly contentious and definitely controversial form ***** punishment given to someone convicted of a heinous crime. On the surface, it appears to be the best possible solution for deterring crime but researchers and critics have found numerous arguments in opposition ***** death penalty. They argue that this form of punishment must be completely removed from possible options s*****ce most western countries are no longer resorting to it w*****h even Canada removing it as a possible means of punishment in 1976.

Opponents of death penalty ***** aga*****st it on the grounds of *****s supposedly ineffective deterrence power. They argue that ***** penalty doesn't really deter crimes ***** according to one statistic, it was found *****, "... there has been somewhat more homicide in capital punishment states than in non- capital punishment states" (Charle S L. Black Jr., p.25). ***** also argue that death ***** is highly discrim*****atory practice. Opponents maintain that in most cases, ***** form ***** punishment is given to people of minority groups especially black inmates. It ***** ***** been ***** that capital ***** is more commonly resorted to where victims were white. "In the most validly conducted studies, the defendant was four or five times as likely to get ***** death penalty if the victim was white than ***** the ***** was African American" (Ronald J. Tabak). Another valid argument against ***** penalty emerges ***** its vulnerability to error. ***** ***** ***** innocent people are ***** death penalty, gross injustice is committed and it cannot ***** be rectified since the person ***** no longer alive. "In the United States *****t only do countless men ***** women ***** arrested for murders they did not commit—they get convicted and often sentenced to death as well. Occasionally they are even executed" (Ro*****rt M. Baird, et al, p.141). The unfair and discriminatory nature of death pen*****ty has often caused a stir in legal ***** political debates. However those who support ***** penalty ***** their arguments, some of them very logical too.

Supports ***** death penalty claim ***** death ***** can deter crime. "Indeed, in a USA Tod*****y Poll, 68% of respondents agreed that the death penalty ********** crime" (Jennifer C. Honeyman, et al.) *****y feel that if a grievous crime is committed, then its punishment ***** be equ*****ly serious in *****. Some supporters also protect death penalty on grounds of justice. If a person kills someone, he should meet the same fate by law. This seems to make sense and as Bedau argues that *****s of ***** other than death ***** "seems ***** good for someone ***** in callous disregard ***** his victim shed innocent blood" (Hugo Adam Bedau, et al, p.52). Proponents *****so maintain that in order to affirm the sanctity of life, death penalty is ***** ***** option. Since life is a gift for e*****one, no one in the world has any right whatsoever to take it away. Thus in order to preserve ***** sanct*****y of human