Capital Punishment Should Not Be Legal - 950 Words

Capital Punishment is still used in the United States, and there has been 152 people that has been released from death row since 1973. There has been many more people that were not released but executed and possibly innocent. Kantian ethics is the theory that says the moral actions are not determined by the consequences but by the right nature of the action. Capital punishment may be questionable with some cases of innocents, with that being said the use of capital punishment should only be used with cases to be absolute guilt. Capital punishment is also known as the death penalty, where someone is executed for the actions of their crime. Some people believe it is ethically wrong, while others try to justify the use of it. Some argue†¦show more content†¦The legacy of racial apartheid, racial bias, and ethnic discrimination is unavoidably evident in the administration of capital punishment in America. Death sentences are imposed in a criminal justice system that treats you better if you are rich and guilty than if you are poor and innocent. This is an immoral condition that makes rejecting the death penalty on moral grounds not only defensible but necessary for those who refuse to accept unequal or unjust administration of punishment† (Stevenson). There are many current issues that have to deal with capital punishment, like the execution method, innocence, mental illness, prosecutorial misconduct, and racial disparities. When it comes to the method of execution ACLU says â€Å"Several recent executions have proven that lethal injection can often be painful and prone to mishaps that lead to torture. In recent years, as pharmaceutical manufacturers have withdrawn permission to use their drugs in executions, states have frequently failed to find safe alternatives and been forced to shroud their executions under cloaks of secrecy. The result has been a lack of accountability for state governments in relation to botched