"Is the Capital Punishment System Working?"

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The Death Penalty is remaining strong on paper and weak in practice Cq Researcher says. The yes-no question, “Is the capital punishment system working?” The number of new death sentences fell in 2009. Executions are half the number of what they were in the 1990s. Opponents say that the death penalty by prosecutors may be seeking it less often because of the costs of a capital trial. Also costs for sentencing and post conviction sentencing is up. Jurors are concerned about costs as well.
Over the next two-and-a-half weeks, prosecutors depicted Hayes as a longtime offender who took sadistic delight in planning the home invasion in the suburban Connecticut town of Cheshire in July 2007 that left a mother and two daughters dead after a night of beatings, rape, strangulation and arson. Defense lawyers countered the prosecution's plea for the death penalty by portraying Hayes' yet-to-be-tried co-defendant, 30-year-old Joshua Komisarjevsky, as the mastermind of the killings. Hayes, the defense lawyers contended, was a drug-addicted victim of childhood abuse so filled with remorse over the killings that he was hoping for a death sentence.
The jury of seven women and five men deliberated over four days, including a weekend, before rendering their decision. Death, the jurors said, would be “the appropriate sentence” for each of the six capital felony counts against Hayes in their earlier verdicts.
I believe the capital system is working but that the values of people are changing. There is a lot of different cases and with the expenses they are finding it not as important. However to receive life in prison or death penalty is “Quite Important” to show others how wrong it is and that should never change! So the capital punishment system is still working there is just a problem with providing enough money for it now.
· Jost, Kennith. Is the Capital Punishment System Working?
· November 19, 2010: Publish Date; December 4, 2010 accessed
· Source: CQ Researcher
· Thesis: The Capital Punishment System is Still Working Although There is a Lack of Money!
· Evidence: There are still sentences for life in prison. It is scary though to think of them letting criminals out of prison or get by without the death penalty when they have killed someone or a few people. There are other death penalties and hopefully that doesn’t change.
· The article has a very high and appropriate merit for the subject. The examples of deaths by the death penalty are very clear although I did find it factuating that they are considering less of the penalty because of the expenses which is sort of sad that Justice may fall through for victims of families related to crimes. Very helpful and had good logos, ethos and pathos.