In this essay I will present my aspect on the issues with the death penalty and how it impacts society.Firstly, the death penalty, formally known as Capital punishment is a legal process whereby a person is put to death as a punishment for a crime. The enforcement of a death sentence is an execution. The most common countries who adopt this procedure are Saudi Arabia, China, Iran, Iraq and the U.S.A. Some question if the agenda is really necessary as there are other methods such as, life imprisonment where a prisoner may die naturally.

The only country that administers this procedure having membership to the G7 is the USA. The United Nations has urged the United States to immediately favour a moratorium on the death penalty. A moratorium is an authorised period of delay of using this procedure.

In some cases such as Clayton Lockett 38,there have been many botched torture executions, a new untested three drug injection had been administered and Clayton had become unconscious after 10 minutes. Three minutes later Clayton had become severely unstable, breathing heavily, he started lifting his head of the pillow after which the blinds were lowered in the viewing area. Thereon Lockett had died of a heart attack.

Capital punishment is truly an inhumane method of death, it is not natural neither lawful but has been accepted in many societies throughout the world. The wrongful execution of an innocent person is an injustice that can never be rectified and in some cases an innocent victim may die. With life imprisonment an innocent will keep their life but will still be punished for life.

The death penalty is much more expensive than life without parole because it requires a long and complex judicial process. This process is needed in order to ensure that innocent men and women are not executed for crimes they did not commit, and even with these protections the risk of executing an innocent person can not be guaranteed.

If the death penalty was replaced with a sentence of life without parole which costs millions less and also ensures that the public is protected while eliminating the risk of an irreversible mistake, the money saved could be spent on programs that actually improve the communities in which we live. The millions of dollars (US CURRENCY)could be used on more conservative categories such as education, roads, public safety programs, drug rehabilitation,mental health services, and services for crime victims and their families.

There are many activists and associations that have formed to abolish the death penalty such as Amnesty International. Amnesty international believe, “The death penalty is cruel, inhuman and degrading”. Since its formation in 1961, Amnesty International have been working to end Executions. Once it had formed, only nine countries had abolished the death penalty. Today, that number has risen to 140. So we can confirm that it has made a large change. Amnesty International believes that, “sentencing someone to execution denies them the right of life this is prohibited in the Universal declaration of human rights”. There had also been a recent case in 2004 for Mr Cameron Todd Willingham, he had been convicted of arson and murder for setting his house on fire with his three  daughters. Although he had appealed and maintained his innocence throughout, he was executed in 2004. Later on in 2009 it had been found that ‘flawed Science’ had been used and therefore it was not arson.

Now to conclude, I would like to justify that I do support the acts of Amnesty International and all other activists to abolish capital punishment.