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Should The Death Penalty Be Banned? MAG
There are many things in this society which should be banned, but the death penalty is not one of them. It is definitely the right way to go as far as capital discipline is concerned. Right now in our country, I find it outrageous that criminals think that they can get away with just about anything. In some states, including Alabama, the death penalty has helped them lower the rate of violent crimes. We need some form of capital punishment to send a message to career criminals that they will not get away with these severe crimes.
The death penalty would also make people more secure. In some countries of South America and the Far East, they have very severe penalties, including flogging, for even minor crimes. People in some areas of our nation feel they cannot walk around or step outside their houses for fear of criminals. In other countries, however, you would rarely see laws being broken because the penalties are so stern. The United States is one of the most lenient countries in the world as far as discipline. If we had the death penalty, all people would be able to use the streets even in troubled areas.
Another reason we should use this is to set an example to all criminals. Some criminals who have committed many violent crimes (robbery, rape, and murder) are walking the streets like normal citizens because we are much too lenient on them. If the death penalty is instituted, there would not be as many daring and violent crimes as there are presently. Our present laws are much too "soft" on criminals. We need to get stricter.
In closing, I would like to add that this law would make a major difference. It would make our streets safer, people more secure, and make a better world to live in. The death penalty is a definite plus for our society as a whole.
What do you think? ?
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Your whole argument, the entire thing, is based on this idea that Capital Punishment lowers crime rates. In oklahoma when they temporarily banned the death penalty they saw no increase in crime but did, conversly, see an increase in stranger killings.
The truth is that if you actaully research both sides, something I can assume reading this that you didn't, both sides have statistics to back their point that the death penalty does or does not increase crime rates.
People agaisnt the death penalty sometimes claim that capital punishment increases crime rates through the Brutilization effect.
There is no way of actually knowing whose right. Surveys can be very misleading especailly for something like this where their are so many factors involved. Their is no "laboratory" for capital punishment where you can control of teh variables in order to get accurated information.
Timothy McVeigh's defense case cost thirteen million eight hundred dollars, for ten percent that amount he could have been imprisoned for life.
Usually sentencing someone to the death penalty costs more than life imprisonment if we are going to look at it purely financially.
I cannot help, but agree and disagree. Who are we to say that someone is to live or die? Are we going to be that cruel that we would take someone's life? On the other hand, some people who are too dangerous to walk the streets are a constint potential threat to humanity, should not be allowed to walk the streets, or anywhere. I am sorry that there are such sever punishments, but, we must do what we think is right, and act with other people's safety in mind.
Thank you.
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