FBI Uniform Crime Report

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The discussion about capital punishment is fundamentally and judicial important. Today 36 countries actively practice capital punishment which is also known as death penalty or execution. Among those countries United States is also one of them, due to the specifically authorized in the constitution federal government and 38 states practice capital punishment .It raises the question about ethical and moral issues associated with government-sanctioned execution, and the potential for errors in the legal system that may allow for the misapplication or prejudicial application of capital punishment. In the United States capital punishment is charge for those criminals who are guilty of murder, rape ,torture and so on. There is minor voice against…show more content…
Bowman, Jeffrey says that the death penalty process consumes tremendous amounts of money and resources and fails to deter criminals. FBI Uniform Crime Report data show no statistical difference in crime rates based on the existence or frequency of use of the death penalty in a particular state. It is applied in an often arbitrary and racist manner and may have led to the execution of innocent people. Paving the wave that death penalty doesn’t decrease the crime and is mostly bias towards the certain section of the society. For example, that people who kill white people are far more likely to receive a death sentence than those whose victims were not white, and that black people who kill white people have the greatest chance of receiving a death sentence. Jeffrey further add that the degree to which systemic flaws in investigative, forensic, and trial procedures can lead to false conviction, and subsequent execution. He also proving this point by showing the result of the Innocence Project, a legal clinic founded in 1992 by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld to assist prisoners who could be proved innocent through post-conviction DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid, which is a sort…show more content…
For certain crimes, the only just punishment is the death penalty. He further claim that from 1966-1980, when only six executions took place, the murder rate in the United States nearly doubled, from 5.6 per 100,000 people to 10.2. That rate fell to 5.7 in 1999, when executions reached a 45-year high of 98. This statistics proves the need of capital punishment Matt proclaimed. Pointing out to the words of John McAdams, a political science professor at Marquette University, ”If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail to execute murderers and doing so would in fact have deterred other murders, we have allowed the killing of a bunch of innocent victims.” Matt says there will be always chance killer might kill again and death penalty never does. Giving the example of McDuff case who was first sentenced to death in 1968 for three murders he had committed two years earlier. In the wake of the Supreme Court’s 1972 ruling against capital punishment, McDuff’s sentence was commuted to life in prison. He was paroled in 1989. Two and a half years later, McDuff killed
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