Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment could be an effective detterant to crime but not in all cases. Yes I do believe some people deserve to live with their mistakes no matter how much money they cost us to keep them in jail. Why wouldn't we make someone suffer and have their rights taken away and realize what they did....to me the death penalty can be seen as an easy way out. In some cases the death penalty is appropriate, someone who is uncooperative and is a complete threat to everyone in contact. Murderers could be put on death row because they took someone elses life, people who do not commit violent crimes do not deserve the death penalty, incarceration, jail time, probation, parole are all suitable punishments. What really shocked me in the findings is seeing that more whites are on death row and executed than blacks. This perception is due to the fact of stereotypes in society. On the news you mainly see crimes about the city and blacks. The methods of the death penalty were also shocking before researching this topic i never knew that gas, hanging, or firing squad were legal acts of the death penalty.