CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Capital Punishment is a legal infliction o death for violating criminal law. Throughout history people have been put to death using different methods of execution. The method that the US Government has been using is the lethal injection. This is the administration of a fatal amount of a fast action drug that paralyzes the person’s heart. It is a sterilized and impersonalized method of execution that does not eliminate the brutality of the penalty. This can be compared with the euthanasia in animals, which is putting them to sleep because they are sick or too old. But in this case, it is not an animal. How can the law or society “put to sleep” a human being? The death penalty is degrading the humanity of the person punished. Here is definitely a human right issue involving the proper limit of Government power. When the DNA testing was developed in 1973, more than 100 people sentenced to death have been exonerated. How many other innocent people remain on death row? How many innocent people have been executed? Somehow those people were wrongfully imprisoned and sentenced to death; therefore, some mistakes have been made. It can be an inadequate legal representation, police and prosecutorial misconduct, false testimony, or racial prejudice. In my opinion capital punishment should be banned from criminal law. Other alternatives can be used to control crime instead of the death penalty. The worst punishment should be a true life sentence, which is, imprisoning with no possibility of release. This kind of sentence could effectively isolate criminals from a community.
SOL M. RYAN
posted by SOL @ 9:16 PM
1 Comments:
You make some very strong points that challenge capital punishment. I think you get to the core of the issue, the inhumanity and lack of certainty that can sometimes limit the justice of capital punishment. Generally, your paragraph shows good command of grammar.
However, your paragraph would be stronger if you put the topic sentence, that is your position about capital punishment at the beginning of the paragraph instead of near the end.
In this sentence "When the DNA testing was developed in 1973, more than 100 people sentenced to death have been exonerated," you should begin with Since because when has the idea that it happened at or near the same time, that is 1973. Instead, it has been over the last 30 plus years. So your sentence should begin this way: "Since DNA testing was developed in 1973, more than 100 people sentenced to death have been exonerated."
You use the article the in several phrases where it does not belong: "the lethal injection," "the DNA testing," and "the euthanasia in animals". Lethal injection and DNA testing are general things not specific. In other words, there are several ways to perform a lethal injection and DNA tests. We can use the with euthanasia if we follow it with of and point to a specific. "the euthanasia in animals" should read either "animal euthanasia" or "the euthanasia of animals."
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