The death penalty comes and goes because it’s frequently improperly applied, making it a thorn of criminal justice much like plea bargains.
There are only two legal remedies provided by the death penalty:
* Repeat offenders of capital crimes have no cause for separation or special treatment from a prison’s general population. This is a rare edge cases that generally only applies to inmates that continue to participate in extreme criminal activities even under incarceration. Death row prisoners are generally isolated from the general population of a prison system to limit such interaction where such separation is otherwise not typically available.
* Capital punishment is a legal surety to enforce life without parole even if there is no intention to execute the convict.
Capital punishment provides those two legal remedies that the law otherwise does not fulfill or fulfills with numerous exceptions.
Unfortunately, the death penalty is frequently used for a variety of other concerns, such as compelling testimony. The same problems the plague the US criminal justice system at large also allow abuse and misuse of the death penalty.
The US’s two largest problems in regards to criminal justice are cultural and funding inversion. The cultural problem is that many people believe incarceration is a form of revenge or retribution but the constitution was written to prevent such sentiments creating a conflict of motive. The funding inversion applies to many police forces receiving funding disproportionately to their respective district attorneys offices resulting in system overload and backlog with insufficient oversight.
There are only two legal remedies provided by the death penalty:
* Repeat offenders of capital crimes have no cause for separation or special treatment from a prison’s general population. This is a rare edge cases that generally only applies to inmates that continue to participate in extreme criminal activities even under incarceration. Death row prisoners are generally isolated from the general population of a prison system to limit such interaction where such separation is otherwise not typically available.
* Capital punishment is a legal surety to enforce life without parole even if there is no intention to execute the convict.
Capital punishment provides those two legal remedies that the law otherwise does not fulfill or fulfills with numerous exceptions.
Unfortunately, the death penalty is frequently used for a variety of other concerns, such as compelling testimony. The same problems the plague the US criminal justice system at large also allow abuse and misuse of the death penalty.
The US’s two largest problems in regards to criminal justice are cultural and funding inversion. The cultural problem is that many people believe incarceration is a form of revenge or retribution but the constitution was written to prevent such sentiments creating a conflict of motive. The funding inversion applies to many police forces receiving funding disproportionately to their respective district attorneys offices resulting in system overload and backlog with insufficient oversight.