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Top 10 Pro & Con Arguments. 1. Legality. The United States is one of 55 countries globally with a legal death penalty, according to Amnesty International. As of Mar. 24, 2021, within the US, 27 states had a legal death penalty (though 3 of those states had a moratorium on the punishment’s use).
The death penalty system costs California $137 million per year while a system with lifelong imprisonment as the maximum penalty would cost $11.5 million, an almost 92% decrease in expense. The statistics are lower but comparable across other states including Kansas, Tennessee, and Maryland. [25]
Roger Hood, former professor at the Centre for Criminological Research at the University of Oxford, states: “ [C]apital punishment, also called death penalty, [is the] execution of an offender sentenced to death after conviction by a court of law of a criminal offense. Capital punishment should be distinguished from extrajudicial executions ...
The death penalty has not been abolished by law and may be used if the unconstitutional sentencing statute is revised by legislature. The Death Penalty Information Center, the Washington Post, and FindLaw have declared 2007 as the year New York’s death penalty was abolished. Other sources, including Assisting Lawyers for Justice (ALJ) on ...
States with the Death Penalty, Death Penalty Bans, and Death Penalty Moratoriums; US Executions: 2003-2020; Most Recent Executions in Each US State; The ESPY List: US Executions 1608-2002; Death Row Inmates; International and American Methods of Execution; International Death Penalty Status; Federal Capital Offenses; Religious Perspectives on ...
More than half of U.S. adults (56%) say Black people are more likely than White people to be sentenced to death for committing similar crimes. About six-in-ten (63%) say the death penalty does not deter people from committing serious crimes, and nearly eight-in-ten (78%) say there is some risk that an innocent person will be executed.”.
Our system of justice rightfully demands a higher standard for death penalty cases. However, the risk of making a mistake with the extraordinary due process applied in death penalty cases is very small, and there is no credible evidence to show that any innocent persons have been executed at least since the death penalty was reactivated in 1976.
Islam. “In the United States, where Islamic law – Shariah – is not legally enforced, there is no official Muslim position on the issue of the death penalty. In Islamic countries, however, capital punishment is sanctioned in only two instances: cases involving intentional murder or physical harm of another; and intentional harm or threat ...
Austin Sarat, Associate Provost and Associate Dean of the Faculty and Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College, PhD, JD, in an Oct. 18, 2020 article, “When Families of Murder Victims Speak at Death Penalty Trials, Their Anguish May Make Sentencing Less Fair,” available at theconversation.com, stated:
General Reference (not clearly pro or con) Cary Aspinwall, staff-writer for The Marshall Project, in a May 22, 2021 article, “Life without Parole Is Replacing the Death Penalty — but the Legal Defense System Hasn’t Kept Up,” available at themarshallproject.org, stated: “Life-without-parole sentences are steadily replacing the death ...