Should the death penalty be abolished?

Should The Death Penalty Be Abolished

Two murder cases , one occurring in 2001 and another in 2003 , have cast serious doubts on the correctness and the morality of the imposition of the death penalty in the United States . The first case was that of James Elledge , who confessed to murdering a woman in 2001 , was consequently sentenced to death , and finally executed . The second case happened in 2003 when one Gary Ridgway admitted to killing 48 women but was only imprisoned for life (Amnesty International ) Comparing and contrasting the two cases is

an elementary task : first , the two offenders similarly pleaded guilty to their crimes second , the first felon killed one woman and was executed for his crime , while the second murdered 48 women but escaped with a verdict of life imprisonment . And this is only the tip of the iceberg

Comparatively speaking , were the rulings handed down in the two foregoing cases reasonable ? Was the American justice system fair in both cases ? Absolutely not ! It does not take a brilliant legal mind to discern that justice was not served properly , that a very grave error was committed in either one or both of the cases . A grade school pupil applying simple arithmetic , could tell everybody that 48 is a lot more than 1 , and even a simpleton could be expected to observe that a man who killed 48 women is badder ' than he who killed a lone woman . With respect to the case of James Elledge , if indeed he was sentenced incorrectly and punished with such finality as death , one is left to wonder : could something be done to right the wrong ? The answer is a heartbreaking negative - the penalty had been severely final , and it was already executed Elledge could no longer be brought back to life After Elledge was executed , could we possibly locate someone involved in prosecuting him to at least admit to the likelihood that the convict might , indeed , have been mistakenly sent to his death ? The answer to this is : most probably not . In this country , nobody is expected to worry over spilled milk (in this case they might even refer to it as spoiled ' spilled milk ! It is because of these reasons that I am strongly recommending that death penalty be abolished in the United States of America

Death penalty should be abolished because innocent people face a serious risk of being executed due to a flawed U .S . criminal justice system The prevalence of evidence pointing to a flawed system of criminal justice administration has rendered it immoral for this country to insist on imposing the capital punishment . The comparative cases of Elledge and Ridgway provide a jarring microcosm of this flaw . Just because Elledge chose not to offer any mitigating factors , he was meted the capital punishment for that single murder . Ridgway , on the other hand , who had been described in the Supreme Court opinion as the most prolific serial killer ' in the history of the state of Washington , was awarded...