Why more and more Americans are against the death penalty

For some years, the number of abolitionists increased.
Indeed, more and more Americans fight against the death penalty.
What are the reasons of this change?

First of all, the death penalty is a cruel punishment and inhuman.
Indeed, some executions are bungled. For example the lethal injection is hastily realized because there aren’t enough doctors. Consequently prisoners died in extreme suffering.
Yet others methods of execution are so cruel. Certainly the electric chair, gas or hanging can take several minutes for the prisoners die.

Secondly, it is not dissuasive. It’s not more dissuasive than a life sentence. What’s more, it doesn’t stop criminals who are motivated by passion or fanaticism.

Thirdly, the death penalty touches most particularly social minorities.

Fourthly, it’s irreversible: innocents can be executed.
It is really this argument which explains why more and more Americans struggle against the death penalty. Indeed, since the development of the tests DNA, several material evidences have been verified and proved the innocence of several already executed condemned persons.
The most known example is the one of Cameron Todd Willingham.

Acquitted after his execution
→ Cameron Todd Willingham

He was executed February seventeenth 2004 because he was convicted of the fire of his house which provoked the death of his three children in 1992.
Yet, five years after, an official report and an article of New Yorker confirm that Todd Willingham was innocent.
Indeed, September seventeenth 2009, an article which details the case appeared in the New Yorker. The journalist David Grann had confirmed that all the proofs which accused Cameron were wrong.

It’s necessary to know that the scientific analysis had been presented to the judge and to the governor three days before the execution of Todd Willingham but it changed nothing. Cameron Todd Willingham cried out his innocence till the end. Even during his execution because his last words will have been: “The only statement I want to make is that I am an innocent man convicted of a crime I did not commit. I have been persecuted for twelve years for something I did not do. From God’s dust I came and to dust I will return, so the Earth shall become my throne.”

In spite of the doubts, we execute him
→ Troy Davis

More recently there was Troy Davis. He was 42 years old at the time of the facts.
He was executed September twenty first 2011 for the murder of a policeman. Yet, during his trial, among eight witnesses five retracted. Most revealed to have lied under the oppression of the police. Once again it changed nothing.

Conclusion

To conclude this expose I would like compare with you the USA and other countries of the world as regards the death penalty.
Here is a chart of the capital punishment around the world.
It's interesting to see that America is the only developed country which continues to execute prisoners.
Indeed among fifty eight countries which didn't abolish the death penalty, USA is the only industrial nation. Why ?
Because all the developed countries consider this judgment as a cruel and inhuman punishment. What's more, I would like to point out that several countries like Tongo are from now on for the abolition of this one.

Why more and more Americans are against the death penalty

For some years, the number of abolitionists has been increasing.
Indeed, more and more Americans fight against the death penalty.
What are the reasons of this change?

First of all, the death penalty is a cruel punishment and inhuman.
Indeed, some executions are bungled. For example the lethal injection is hastily realized because there aren’t enough doctors. Consequently prisoners died in extreme suffering.

Yet others methods of execution are so cruel. Certainly the electric chair, gas or hanging can take several minutes to have the prisoners died.

Secondly, it is not dissuasive. It’s not more dissuasive than a life sentence. What’s more, it doesn’t stop criminals who are motivated by passion or fanaticism.

Thirdly, the death penalty touches most particularly social minorities.

Fourthly, it’s irreversible: innocents can be executed.
It is really the very argument which explains why more and more Americans struggle against the death penalty. Indeed, since the development of the tests DNA, several material evidences have been verified and proved the innocence of several already executed condemned persons.
The most known example is the one of Cameron Todd Willingham.

Acquitted after his execution
→ Cameron Todd Willingham

He was executed on February seventeenth 2004 because he was convicted of the fire of his house which provoked the death of his three children in 1992.
Yet, five years after, an official report and an article of New Yorker confirm that Todd Willingham was innocent.
Indeed, September seventeenth 2009, an article which details the case appeared in the New Yorker. The journalist David Grann had confirmed that all the proofs which accused Cameron were wrong.

It’s necessary to know that the scientific analysis had been presented to the judge and to the governor three days before the execution of Todd Willingham but it changed nothing. Cameron Todd Willingham cried out his innocence till the end. Even during his execution because his last words will have been: “The only statement I want to make is that I am an innocent man convicted of a crime I did not commit. I have been persecuted for twelve years for something I did not do. From God’s dust I came and to dust I will return, so the Earth shall become my throne.”

In spite of the doubts, we execute him
→ Troy Davis

More recently this is what happened to Troy Davis. He was 42 years old at the time of the facts.
He was executed on September twenty first 2011 for the murder of a policeman. Yet, during his trial, among eight witnesses five retracted. Most revealed to have lied under the oppression of the police. Once again it changed nothing.

Conclusion

To conclude this expose I would like compare with you the USA and other countries of the world as regards the death penalty.
Here is a chart of the capital punishment around the world.
It's interesting to see that America is the only developed country which continues to execute prisoners.
Indeed among fifty eight countries which didn't abolish the death penalty, USA is the only industrial nation. Why ?
Because all the developed countries consider this judgment as a cruel and inhuman punishment. What's more, I would like to point out that several countries like Tongo are from now on for the abolition of this one.

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Merci pour tout.

Can you correct this question please ?

From then on, a questioning of the death penalty in the United States would not be necessary?