Capital Punishment, also has the name, death penalty, is a legal procedure in which an individual faces a death sentence as punishment for his or her crime. The crimes under capital punishments arise from penal codes of respective countries. Each nation has a defined penal code system, normally enshrined in the constitution. The use of death penalty as a form of punishing the most dreadful of crimes dates back to the Roman times. For instance, beheading was common practice for punishing murderers and deserters during war. However, as several countries settled into the nations we know today, death penalty gradually reduced, and diminished among most states. Nevertheless, some nations still use the death penalty today when punishing some crimes as murder.
A good example of such nations is the United States, which still includes the death penalty in its judicial system. Americans have always argued over the effectiveness of the death penalty and its practice. Several issues have enacted within the fold when it comes to discussion of possibly eliminating the entire capital punishments system. This research paper, therefore, explores the effectiveness of the death penalty in the criminal justice system. The research will study the prevailing circumstances under which the death penalty emerges in the US justice system. Further, the paper will review the effectiveness of the death penalty towards deterring delinquency and its impact on the moral and social construct of the society.
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Banner, S. (2002). The death penalty: An American history. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
(Author, Banner, S.; year of publication, 2002, Harvard University; No. of pages, 101)
The article arouses the readers passion regarding certain pertinent legislative Acts. The two views that emerge trace a correlative standard depending on the justifications involved. The contents provide a comprehensive chronology of the death penalty as it exists in America. Banner Stuart narrates the dynamic changes that have occurred regarding capital punishment. The periods trace a significant trend from the early 19th century all the way to the twenty-first centuries. The divisive nature of the procedure becomes controversial with the passing of time.
Bohm, R. M. (2008). The death penalty today. Boca Raton, Fla: CRC Press.
(Author, Bohm, R. M.; year of publication, 2008, CRC Press, England; No. of pages, 297)
The article provides a comparative approach to the US Death penalty system in relation to other countries like Iran and China. The collection contains different articles from remarkable experts thus providing an in-depth evaluation of the controversial topic. The subsequent sections have a critical way of examining the miscarriages in justice and the Death penalty. The outlook is a sober view with intent of advocating its abolition.
Owens, E. C. (2004). Religion and the death penalty: A call for reckoning. Grand Rapids, Mich: Eerdmans.
(Author, Owens, E.C.; year of publication, 2004, Michigan; No. of pages, 102)
This article provides a liberal outlook to the Death penalty Acts in the US. The approach that emerges in this section extols on a variety of religious values. It emerges that any form of death appears barbaric. The essential measures that trace a correlative stand in the environment are benign.
Rogers, A. (2008). Murder and the death penalty in Massachusetts. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press.
(Author, Rogers, A; year of publication, 2008, University of Massachusetts; No. of pages, 79)
Massachusetts is a state that enhances different strict laws in the US conglomerate. The death penalty stands in most cases emerge as murder of the first degree. This article provides a liberal case study to the different cases in the state that qualify for murder. The chronology traces a sad trend of different standards under scrutiny. Rogers effectively uses the appeal button to influence a critical reader response on the matter.
Vollum, S. (2008). Last words and the death penalty: Voices of the condemned and their co-victims. New York: LFB Scholarly Pub.
(Author, Vollum, S; year of publication, 2008, New York; No. of pages, 97)
Vollum, like Rogers attempts to provide a scholarly outlook of the death penalty. The different instances that emerge in the articles fuse diverse cases of death penalty victims in the US. The effects of judicial miscarriages emerge to trace a sad trend among relatives and victims under persecution. Instances emerge to illustrate the different cases of false claims acquiring rightful penalties under the law. The irony of these standards becomes sufficient to disqualify negative aspects of justice.
Von, D. D. (2006). Among the lowest of the dead: The culture of capital punishment. Ann Arbor, Mich: University of Michigan Press.
(Author, Von, D.; year of publication, 2006, University of Michigan; No. of pages, 145)
Michigan and Kalamazoo judicial state systems have a substantive nature of qualifying capital punishments. The danger of covalent standards in the event of persecution traces a relative strand of justification in the somatic nature of justice. The death penalty emerges to support controversial standards in the pursuing justice. The lowest of the dead could probably have a status of death. Equality, and value of life emerges as critical unless under certain religious influences. Von has a manner of tracing pertinent questions in the quest for capital punishment.
Yorke, J. (2008). Against the death penalty: International initiatives and implications. Farnham, England: Ashgate.
(Author, Yorke J; year of publication, 2008, Farnham, England; No. of pages, 133)
Yorke has an article that proposes the disadvantages of Death penalties. The journal becomes a handy material in backing relevant data from other sources. The presentation style merges different cases to form a relative judicial malpractice- the Death Penalty.
