In this paper, I will discuss Zach Wamp's view on the death penalty and see if his view will be effective in reducing crime rates. Zach Wamp supports the death penalty and thinks that Tennessee should still accept the law. Tennessee has been a long supporter of the death penalty. There have been a total of 1,188 deaths by the means of the death penalty in the United States, from 1977 to 2009 (Jones 13). Most of these deaths were by lethal injection but some criminals received electrocution, Hanging, firing squad, and even by a gas chamber. The least common of all these ways is hanging with only 2-recorded executions. .
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The death penalty or capital punishment has many different views surrounding it. It has been the question for decades whether the decision is right for the government to have the right to take someone's life or not (Bender 56). Zach Wamp supports Capital punishment and voted against the habeas corpus law, which gives the chance for the criminal to appeal in court to be not guilty or to plead insanity. In other words when a suspect is found guilty there is no chance of reversing the verdict. This would reduce crime rates in the future if the law passed for no habeas corpus, because people would no they would have no way to appeal in court and be able to skip out on Capital Punishment. This would make criminals think before they act and know if they were convicted of the crime that deserved the death sentence, that there would be no hope of living because habeas corpus no longer exists. Zach Wamp's view is that criminals should be held fully accountable for their actions and should receive proper and appropriate punishment. This is where a lot of different views and considerations come into play.
How do we know if it's right to put somebody through capital punishment? How is it right for someone to decide if someone should live or not? : These are the common questions surrounding this issue (Jones 24).
