Capital Punishment Essay: Should The Death Penalty Stay In America?

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Capital punishment should stay in America for stopping more crimes, the history purpose, and stopping prison escapes. Capital punishment ,also known as the death penalty, is a form of punishment that uses execution. The one who receives the punishment is then put on death row for approximately fifteen years. The reason death row takes so long is to give the accused time to appeal to see if they are innocent. Death row is not a normal prison almost each state has a prison dedicated specifically to death row prisoners who wait until their execution dates. There are 6 main ways of execution in the United States lethal gas, lethal injection, hanging, electrocution, and firing squad. Since the 20th century crime has declined steadily in the US but it does not mean that crimes in America stand out. Sandy Hook Columbine, and Parkland are all deadly school shootings that took the country by storm and brought communities together to help each other. It still should not happen and we should not …show more content…

The latest year for recording prison escapes was 1998 where 6,530 people escaped prison. This number was almost 20 years ago but still its putting murderers, rapist, sex offenders, and robbers back on the streets to commit the crimes they did again or do worse things since they have had time to plot in jail. If the government passes a law saying if more than three people are killed in a crime then you should be on death row this will help clear out prisons and stop people from commiting crimes and murders. Most people will think this will have a longer wait time on death row but if we make the wait time on death row one year then we will clear out more people and have more room for the ones who commit crimes. People have escaped from death row too but most of the time when they escape they are found within 48

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