Capital Punishment is the ordered execution of a convicted prisoner by jury. Since 1976, there have been over 1,000 executions conducted in the United States. Not only is the Death Penalty morally wrong and should be abolished, but it is useless. Many will argue its use, but every pro-death penalty argument can be countered by statistics; plus the system is too imperfect to leave it instated, even if morality wasn’t an issue.
Supporters of the Death Penalty argue that it deters offenders. That if people knew their lives could be taken if they committed certain crimes then a significant number of people who would normally commit the crimes, would no longer do it due to the fear of being executed. However, this isn’t the case. Numerous studies have found no change in the numbers of people committing these crimes, and that there wasn’t even any relation, in general, between the number of executions and murder rates. This renders the idea of deterrence completely inadequate.......
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