Is Life In Prison Without Parole A Better Option Than The Death Penalty

Imagine laying on a table awaiting your lethal injection to die, people watching from behind the glass. You killed someone so you deserve it, don’t you? The death penalty should be legal as a form of punishment. It’s not fair for someone to kill another person or more than one person and either get away with it, or sit in jail living their life. They deserve to die just like the person they murdered.

It’s unfair for murderers to stay alive in jail rather than die for their crime. Criminals should suffer the same death that they did to others rather than live the rest of their lives. For a huge proportion this would instantly rob them of every last ember of hope and increase by up to 20% the number of inmates who will grow old and die. ( Is Life in Prison without Parole a Better Option Than the Death Penalty?) It’s a law that, whoever murders in the first degree can be put on death row and killed for their actions. (18 U.S. Code § 1111 - Murder) Also, murderers can kill again in prison. The death penalty is necessary in these cases. (Is Life in Prison without Parole a Better Option Than the Death Penalty?)

Victims and/or victims’ families feel a sense of relief and closure. Studies cast doubt on

(CNN: Does death penalty bring closure?) “She felt comforted to know he will be put to death.” said the woman’s aunt who was stabbed to death. Also, a 2008 study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that people who were taken advantage of financially by someone else thought they would feel better if they exacted revenge. “It’s justice.” Fred Romano said, who’s sister was beaten & killed. “It’s not revenge.” (CNN: Does death penalty bring closure?) After criminals are killed, victims and/or families of victims feel