The Pros and Cons of Capital Punishment

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The Pros and Cons of Capital Punishment

Since the mid 1900’s, capital punishment has brought many individuals into many diverse view points throughout the years. Capital punishment is a way of punishing a convict by killing him or her because of the crime he or she committed. Capital punishment will always have its pros and cons. There are opponents who absolutely disagree with capital punishment. And then there are advocates who support the idea. In the advocates view point, capital punishment is a way to minimize the threat in the world today. In the opponent’s point of view, opponents disagree with capital punishment, because of the high expenses it brings to the states. Also, opponents argue that capital punishment sentences should not be allowed because innocent convicts are put to death.

Advocates believe that capital punishment helps keeps the crime rates down. They believe that once a criminal has committed a crime than the criminal is bound to commit another crime in the near future. Many convicted murderers usually have a background of arrest and/or conducted previous crimes. This has been proven when states that do not carry capital punishment laws have had convicts in prison for ten to twenty years and have let the convict free after their sentence is over. But when they are free from prison, they are likely to commit another similar crime over again and are sent back into prison for another ten year sentence. For example, New York is one state that does not have the capital punishment law, and when the convicts are free they commit the same crimes again. It is proven that New York has one of the highest crime rates in the United States, and it continues to increase. Therefore, advocates believe ...

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...d thing for the government to have capital punishment laws so that it can help protect their citizens so these criminals do not come back into the public and commit the same crimes again. Also so that it can help keep the crime rates down and hopefully continue to decrease over the years. Opponents believe that the capital punishment laws are unnecessary and should not stay in place. They dislike spending millions of dollars a year to execute their own citizens. Hence, opponents find it a disgrace when citizens of other countries come view the executions of Americans because it shows that Americans do not value human life enough or are moral. It’s also a shame that there are many innocent inmates on death row that are forced to plead guilty or wait for their death sentence. Capital punishment will continue to have its good value and it’s con.

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