Capital Punishment: Injustice Of Society
Looking out for the state of the public's satisfaction in the scheme of
capital sentencing does not constitute serving justice. Today's system of
capital punishment is frought with inequalities and injustices. The commonly
offered arguments for the death penalty are filled with holes. “It was a
deterrent. It removed killers. It was the ultimate punishment. It is biblical.
It satisfied the public's need for retribution. It relieved the anguish of the
victim's family.”(Grisham 120) Realistically, imposing the death penalty is
expensive and time consuming. Retroactively, it has yet to be proven as a
deterrent. Morally, it is a continuation of the cycle of violence and ...
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do.”(Cavanagh 4) Going ever farther, Bryan Stevenson,
the executive director of the Montgomery based Equal Justice Initiative, has
stated that “…people are increasingly realizing that the more we resort to
killing as a legitimate response to our frustration and anger with violence, the
more violent our society becomes…We could execute all three thousand people on
death row, and most people would not feel any safer tomorrow.”(Frame 51) In
addition, with the growing humanitarianism of modern society, the number of
inmates actually put to death is substantially lower than 50 years ago. This
decline creates a situation in which the death penalty ceases to be a deterrent
when the populace begins to think that one can get away with a crime and go
unpunished. Also, the less that the death sentence is used, the more it becomes
unusual, thus coming in conflict with the eighth amendment. This is essentially
a paradox, in which the less the death penalty is used, the less society ...
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and grand juries…”(Tabak 37), the defense that the
court appointed counsel can offer is puny. If, in fact, a defendant has a valid
case to offer, what chance has he to offer it and have it properly recognized.
Furthermore, why should he be punished for a misjustice that was created by the
court itself when it appointed the incapable lawyer.
Even if a defendant has proper legal counsel, there is still the matter
of impartiality of judges. “The Supreme Court has steadily reduced the
availability of habeas corpus review of capital convictions, placing its
confidence in the notion that state judges, who take the same oath of office as
federal judges to uphold the Constitution, ...
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