Should the Death Penalty be abolished?
The death penalty is devised to purge the most heinous of criminality. Through the course of history, various methods of capital punishment have been adopted worldwide, from hanging, beheading, electrocution to rock-throwing and lethal injection, etc. But such brutal retribution has been sickening so a great many people that some have voiced their opposition towards it. Personally, I believe that such punishment should be abolished for good on the grounds of its exorbitant costs and counter-effectiveness.
Regarding its unbelievably high price tag, according to Amnesty International, in California, the current death penalty system consumes a staggering cost of $137 million annually. The expenditure would be much lower (estimated to be around $11.5 million) without the capital punishment. Also, in Maryland, the U.S., a death penalty case comes with an astounding price tag of $3 million, and such cases’ costs are 3 times higher than those of conventional kind. Additionally, a death row inmate would have to wait for roughly 10 to 15 years between sentencing and execution, meaning that they have to stay in special cells for death row inmates, costing much more capital in the long run. Recently, the U.S. alone has at least 54 people awaiting execution. This would put governments in serious financial deficits and reduce resources for crime prevention, healthcare, education, and other public services.
On the other hand, many states and countries have saved millions by abolishing capital punishment or by producing moratoriums. For instance, North California would save $11 million annually if it abolished the death penalty. Cutting down the resources that would be allocated for executions relieves pressures for taxpayers since citizens generally have to pay $90,000 more for such punishments to take place. Abolishing capital sentences is synonymous with more resources for rehabilitation, drug treatment programs, mental health services, etc.
The death penalty is essentially irreversible, once it is carried out, we cannot take it back. In addition, it does not deter criminality either. In fact, there is no solid evidence to prove that capital punishments reduce crime rates. According to a 2007 study of the death penalty by the Yale University of Law, African-American defendants get the ultimate punishments at three times the rate of white defendants in cases where there were white victims.
Another point to be added that there is no ‘humane’ way when it comes to taking lives. Even the lethal injection, which is considered to be ‘the most humane’, has tormented many inmates in failure cases. Ineffective sedation in lethal injection leads to painful deaths amongst inmates. A recent reveal of the botched execution in Oklahoma shows that the executioners have failed to make the inmate unconscious. As a result, the inmate died an agonizing death.
Also, public displays of executions such as lethal injections, beheading, hanging, etc. cause distress to the spectators and even the families of the victims. Although the essence of capital punishment is retribution, it is not making families of victims feel any better. This only recycles the cycle of violence and will not change society for the better.
Conclusion
To conclude, capital punishments are costly, inhumane and ineffective against crime. There is no doubt that the popularity of such punishment will decline within the next few years. The death penalty is no better than life in prison, where prisoners face remorse and would regret the things they did and later could be reintegrated into society. It is essential that we abolish capital punishment for the sake of society.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 369, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, regarding, so, as to, at least, for instance, in addition, in fact, no doubt, such as, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 13.1623246493 182% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 7.30460921844 178% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 24.0651302605 116% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 41.998997996 164% => OK
Nominalization: 26.0 8.3376753507 312% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3137.0 1615.20841683 194% => OK
No of words: 575.0 315.596192385 182% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.45565217391 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89685180668 4.20363070211 116% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.05667993901 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 324.0 176.041082164 184% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.56347826087 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 975.6 506.74238477 193% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 12.0 2.52805611222 475% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 11.0 4.76152304609 231% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 31.0 16.0721442886 193% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.2125118761 49.4020404114 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.193548387 106.682146367 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5483870968 20.7667163134 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.25806451613 7.06120827912 60% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.38176352705 160% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.67935871743 35% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 26.0 3.9879759519 652% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.284546567707 0.244688304435 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0648743489912 0.084324248473 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0675088961423 0.0667982634062 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.128899067975 0.151304729494 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0584144956539 0.056905535591 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.0946893788 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 50.2224549098 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.39 12.4159519038 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.33 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 175.0 78.4519038076 223% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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