Helen Prejean's Argument Against The Death Penalty

People can actually be traumatized because of a man named Carol Pickett, a minister who witnessed almost 100 executions in Texas, attributed his severe health problems to the stress involved with executions. Using an execution to try to right the wrong of their loss is an affront to them and only causes more pain. Also, trauma is not only common in the families but the people who have to watch, prepare and struggle with the inmates who are fighting for their lives. There are people who have to deal with the inmates daily. The guards have to look and watch people knowing that they will die whether they think capital punishment is right or wrong it will put pressure on them.

¨We reserve the death penalty in the United States for the most heinous murders and the most brutal and conscienceless murderers.” I can see why the Supreme Court doesn 't want these people in prison, because they might kill somebody in prison, or if they get bailed out they wouldn 't learn their lesson and do what they were doing AGAIN. ¨We have the responsibility to punish those who deserve it, but only to the degree they deserve it.¨ I can also see why they think people deserve it for their horrible actions, they believe that since they did some outrageous murder, or a really bad crime they deserve to die. ¨"Whatever your feelings are toward the death penalty, one thing most people will never know is the pain experienced when a family member, or in my case, family members are brutally tortured and murdered.¨ This is saying that families go through a lot when a murderer kills one of their loved ones, and the family wants that person executed. Personally, the death penalty in my eyes can help families feel like they 've got justice, and make them feel like they did something for the loved one that was

In Mill’s speech, he uses phrases such as “debarred from all pleasant sights” and “cut from all earthly hope” to dehumanize the thought of allowing a killer to in live in prison miserably for the rest of his life, flattering the idea that the death penalty is far more morally correct. Capote describes sentencing Smith and Hickock to death as “a relic of human barbarism” (Capote 303). Using “relic” and “barbarism” ridicules the idea of allowing the government to kill someone just as easily as the murderers killed their victims. Capote believes that by doing so, the government is almost as monstrous as the killer and that it sets a terrible example to society. Later on, an officer tries to justify why they should receive the death penalty because he “never killed four people in cold blood” (Capote 306).

Division in the idea of the United States using the death penalty has sparks several debates on whether the United States should continue to use the death penalty or ban it all together. The problems of the wrongful convicted being on death row, the supply of drugs to carry out executions, and if the death penalty violates the constitution. In the United States the death penalty has been used for centuries against criminals. During the 1800’s hanging and firing squads were used to dispense justice. In recent times, citizens wanted less cruel executions and to replace those with more pain-free options.

Warranting a Death Warrant The death penalty as a punishment for inhumane crimes dates back as far as the 18th century B.C. in the Code of the Babylonian King Hammurabi. His methods and values towards social structure portray the etymological history of the phrase ‘an eye for an eye’. Society used to value this ideal. However, in modern times, debates over the death penalty question the morality and ethics of putting to death one who has committed the same act.

“He chased me round and round the place, with a clasp-knife, calling me the angel of death and saying he would kill me and then I couldn’t come for him no more” (Twain 29). It is ironic for Pap to call Huck the angel of death when in reality, he is the one that tries to kill Huck. Mark Twain reveals the hypocrisy in society by illustrating how people are always blaming others for a problem, when they themselves are doing it as well. He also uses the same idea with Jim. “Jim said he reckoned I would believe him next time.

The descriptions of the Paris mob, for instance, the crowd of murderers struggling round the grindstone to sharpen their weapons before butchering the prisoners in the September massacres outdo anything. These are the events in the history of France which form the flaming background of A Tale of Two Cities. Its interpretation of the French Revolution has strongly shaped the British views of national identity and political legitimacy. Charles Dickens ' 16th novel, A Tale of Two Cities, symbolize the author 's popular appeal. It 's a tale of chaos, espionage and adventure set in London and Paris prior to, and during, the French Revolution.

Gafgen told the officer that he had killed the boy and then disclosed the location of the body. The kidnapper was prosecuted and sentenced to life imprisonment; however the officer ‘was also prosecuted and convicted of violating the kidnappers rights’ (Sandel, 2011). This presents an interesting moral dilemma, can torture ever be justified? And was the officer acting in a morally respectable way? In this essay I will answer these questions by analysing the arguments which justify or condemn his actions, from both the utilitarian and deontological perspectives.

OPENING - Crissa Selwyna Maramag Imagine the life of someone you love, your whole life has been taken away by an inhumane person in just a snap. You see that person living his or her life in jail with luxury, is sentenced only 10 years in jail. When the time comes, you’re scared because what if he or she comes back for your family, killing another one of your loved ones to see you suffer. You can’t spend your whole life being afraid of what happens next. That is why we are pro capital punishment or what we usually call death penalty.

Then others believe that it is right to punish someone for their actions especially if their actions involve killing another or multiple humans. The death penalty, is the loss of life, which is induced by different tactics. The most common methods in the United States is lethal injection, hanging, firing squad, and the electric chair. The most chosen method by inmates is lethal injection. Lethal injection consists of the inmate being strapped to an operating table or gurney and a trained medical doctor will place two needles into the veins of the arms(Death Penalty Information Center).