Capital Punishment

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Capital Punishment

Capital punishment should be legal in all of the 50 United States of America. I do not believe that people who commit horrific crimes should locked up to live an almost luxurious sentence, they should be killed! There are many reasons why hard criminals should be done away with. This essay will reveal some of my personal reasons why as well as reasons we should support capital punishment in the United States.

According to www.Derechos.net, “Capital punishment is the execution of a criminal pursuant to a sentence of death imposed by a competent court.” Meaning, the court decides if the criminal gets to be killed. Well it wasn’t always like that. There was a time long ago where even in religious beliefs stated that “Whoever sheds man’s blood, by man his blood will be shed, for in the image of God He made man” (Genesis 9:6). So if it was okay for religious people to execute people for murdering others, why shouldn't it be okay for the people of today to continue this?

Capital punishment is meant to be a deterrent to crime, specifically murder. But according to Glenn Dunehew, “During the years that capital punishment was not allowed, murders began to rise.” He was talking about when capital punishment was abolished in the United States between the years 1967-1984, and or reinstated with new guidelines.

If my understanding about the death penalty are correct, it was invented as a way of protecting the citizens of our nation right? Well I understand that there are people who feel that abolishing capital punishment is the necessary thing to do. Well I’m all for protecting those of us who do not go and murder hundreds of people. According to Time, in the United States more than 2,000,000 peop...

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...ed prisons. Just think of all the money we’d save!

Bibliography:

Works Cited!!

"Death Penalty Statistics," North Carolina Attorney General's Office. 1997. 2.

Dunehew, Glenn; “What About Capital Punishment,” www.forerunner.com/forerunner/x0131_Capital_Punishment.html 1.

Justice for all. "Death Penalty and Sentencing Information in the United States." Internet. 6

Lowe, Wesley. "Wesley Lowe's Pro Death Penalty Webpage." Internet. 5

1995 World Almanac. Morin, Richard. "UNCONVENTIONAL WISDOM; New facts and hot stats from the social sciences." The Washington Post. January 7, 1996. 1

Nancy Jacobs, Alison Landes, and Mark A. Siegel. Capital Punishment, Cruel and Unusual?. Wylie:

Information Plus, 1996. 80.

Toufexis, Anastasia. "Seeking the Roots of Violence." Time. 19 April 1993: 53.

http://www.derechos.net/amnesty/dp/cp.html

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