Capital Punishment.

Capital punishment is meant to be a deterrent to crime, specifically murder.The lawful

infliction of death as a punishment; the death penalty.
Types of capital punishment.
Hanging until death, electrocution, lethal injection, beheading, firing squad, stoning.
Reasons why capital punishment is unlawful act.
1. Capital punishment is cruel and unusual - t is cruel because it is a relic of the earliest
days of penology, when sla!ery, branding, and other corporal punishments were
commonplace. "i#e those barbaric practices, e$ecutions ha!e no place in a ci!ili%ed society.
&. Capital punishment denies due process of law. ts imposition is often arbitrary, and
always irre!ocable ' fore!er depri!ing an indi!idual of the opportunity to benefit from new
e!idence or new laws that might warrant the re!ersal of a con!iction, or the setting aside of a
death sentence.
(. The death penalty !iolates the constitutional guarantee of equal protection. t is
applied randomly ' and discriminatorily. t is imposed disproportionately upon those whose
!ictims are white, offenders who are people of color, and on those who are poor and
uneducated and concentrated in certain geographic regions of the country.
). The death penalty is not a !iable form of crime control. *hen police chiefs were
as#ed to ran# the factors that, in their judgment, reduce the rate of !iolent crime, they
mentioned curbing drug use and putting more officers on the street, longer sentences and
gun control. They ran#ed the death penalty as least effecti!e. +oliticians who preach the
desirability of e$ecutions as a method of crime control decei!e the public and mas# their own
failure to identify and confront the true causes of crime.
,. Capital punishment wastes limited resources. t squanders the time and energy of
courts, prosecuting attorneys, defence counsel, juries, and courtroom and law enforcement
personnel. t unduly burdens the criminal justice system, and it is thus counterproducti!e as
an instrument for society-s control of !iolent crime. "imited funds that could be used to
pre!ent and sol!e crime .and pro!ide education and jobs/ are spent on capital punishment.
0. 1 society that respects life does not deliberately #ill human beings. 1n e$ecution is a
!iolent public spectacle of official homicide, and one that endorses #illing to sol!e social
problems ' the worst possible e$ample to set for the citi%enry, and especially children.
2o!ernments worldwide ha!e often attempted to justify their lethal fury by e$tolling the
purported benefits that such #illing would bring to the rest of society. The benefits of capital
punishment are illusory, but the bloodshed and the resulting destruction of community
decency are real.