Pro Capital Punishment - Paper
Pro Capital Punishment
Com/220
08/19/2010
Considering the death penalty is difficult for many people to do but would one consider it if it was their family that was victimized? Capital punishment has been a way to punish people for ages, and many countries still use this form of punishment on some of the worse criminals. Some of the main arguments for capital punishment include: keeping criminals off the street, reducing the crime rate, cost reduction for taxpaying citizens, and one of the most important closer for the family. One of the main reasons that people object to the death penalty in because of the fear that the wrong person could be convicted and put to death. Even though an innocent person could be wrongfully convicted, certain criminals should face the death penalty because it ensures the murderer can commit no more crime in the future and it installs fear in other potential criminals.
In July 2010 I heard on Fox 21 News that three convicted murderers escaped from an Arizona prison, these murderers were facing fifteen years to life for their crimes. One of the three men was caught in Western Colorado two of the men still remain at large. This is a really scary situation. Frightening enough people escape from prison, jail and half way homes more than people are aware of. C.Sullentrop reported that the Bureau of Justice Statistics in 1998 showed that 6,530 people escaped or were AWOL from state prisons (2001, para.2). Shown below is the prison population for two separate years and show the number of inmates that escaped or were AWOL. (Sullentrop, 2001, para.2)
According to this research this, is not very many escapes and the reason that we don’t hear about it is because not many of the escapes are as dramatic as movies and T.V shows make them seem. Although the statistics show that this number is not really high, it still proves that inmates are capable of escaping and they do. For example the Texas Seven escaped from John
Com/220
08/19/2010
Considering the death penalty is difficult for many people to do but would one consider it if it was their family that was victimized? Capital punishment has been a way to punish people for ages, and many countries still use this form of punishment on some of the worse criminals. Some of the main arguments for capital punishment include: keeping criminals off the street, reducing the crime rate, cost reduction for taxpaying citizens, and one of the most important closer for the family. One of the main reasons that people object to the death penalty in because of the fear that the wrong person could be convicted and put to death. Even though an innocent person could be wrongfully convicted, certain criminals should face the death penalty because it ensures the murderer can commit no more crime in the future and it installs fear in other potential criminals.
In July 2010 I heard on Fox 21 News that three convicted murderers escaped from an Arizona prison, these murderers were facing fifteen years to life for their crimes. One of the three men was caught in Western Colorado two of the men still remain at large. This is a really scary situation. Frightening enough people escape from prison, jail and half way homes more than people are aware of. C.Sullentrop reported that the Bureau of Justice Statistics in 1998 showed that 6,530 people escaped or were AWOL from state prisons (2001, para.2). Shown below is the prison population for two separate years and show the number of inmates that escaped or were AWOL. (Sullentrop, 2001, para.2)
According to this research this, is not very many escapes and the reason that we don’t hear about it is because not many of the escapes are as dramatic as movies and T.V shows make them seem. Although the statistics show that this number is not really high, it still proves that inmates are capable of escaping and they do. For example the Texas Seven escaped from John