The Pros And Cons Of The Death Penalty

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The death penalty over the years has been used in many forms like injection, electric shock, and by hanging. The people who suffer those fates have usually done some heinous crime like killed thirty babies, two puppies and a young baby chick. On rare occasions, people have been convicted of crimes put to death then it comes to light they did not do the crime at all. In cases like this there is no end fix. Death is the end, it is like the punctuation mark at the end of this sentence. The only thing is marked can be erased death can not. Rare instances like this start to make people wonder should the death penalty be used in any case under any circumstances?
The death penalty or capital punishment is the government-sanctioned execution …show more content…

What if the prisoner that is facing death did not actually commit the crime. Then an innocent life has been taken. That person’s death would not just end his or her life, but the life of that person’s family would also be destroyed. Their mom, dad, sisters, brothers, close friends, wife, and kids would have to go through life with that unjust pain and sorrow. If justice must be served then what justice would that life and that family get? They can’t just be released from prison and sent home a reparation of some sort, and their family might not like the idea of being given money in turn for the priceless life of their loved one. In the case, the prisoner did commit the crimes, should they get put to death? Is the death sentence the ultimate punishment or is it a get out of jail free card? The prison experience is not a vacation and unless it on your bucket list nobody wants to go there. The inmates really have almost given up their right, and living in a cell being told what to do, and how to do it is not the way to live. With that in mind would the victim(s) get more justice out of the situation if the culprit rotted away confined to the four off white walls of the small cell, or death. Nobody knows what truly happens after death so if death is the end then the victims are not actually getting justice, or are

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