Death_Penalty

Death Penalty Opposition To the Death Penalty The death penalty should be outlawed in the United States. Capital punishment has been around for thousands of years. Many Americans today see it as a justification for the murder of another. But the problem is there are many flaws in our court system when it comes to death penalty. The death penalty should be abolished in this country because it’s racial discrimination, the financial cost and barbarity. Approval ratings in the United States for the death penalty hover around 70 percent, up nearly 50 percent from twenty-five years ago. A recent poll in Texas, which leads the nation in the numbers of executions, stated that 87 percent support the death penalty (Steffen 1). These polls would leave us to believe that a majority of Americans support the death penalty. In 1972, the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was constitutional if imposed for certain crimes like murderer and only if carried out under certain standards. After this decision many state legislatures created new capital punishment laws that adhered to the Supreme Court ruling. These laws limit the death penalty to be used in cases where it involves a death, penalty, states, percent, been, americans, united, support, row, murder, life, just, court, cost, should, punishment, people, die, cases, bedau, system, problem, prison, pain, nearly, another, way, taylor, racial, prisoner, person, over, out, laws, killing, human, federal, execution, executed, electric, doesn’t, discrimination, certain, capital, bias, believe, being, because, abolished, years