Should Death Penalty Be Mandatory?

Have you ever thought about if the person next to you is a killer or rapist? If the person is, what would you want from the government if the person had killed someone you know? The person should receive the death penalty! Murders and rapists should be punished for the crimes they had committed and should pay the price for their wrong doing. Having the death penalty in our society is humane; it helps the overcrowding problem and gives relief to the families of the victims, who had to go through an event such as murder.
First, people should know the history of the death penalty. The death penalty has a long history dating back to the 16th century B.C, during the time of Jesus Christ .The execution by year increased in the US. It has been a steady increase up until the 1930s later the death penalty dropped to zero in the 1970 and the again rose steadily. US citizens said that the death penalty was unconstitutional even so it was believed that it was “cruel and unusual” punishment. The executions yearly kept dropping to zero and raising again until June 1972, the death penalty was suspended because the existing laws were no longer convincing. However, four years after that occurred, several cases came about in Georgia, Florida and Texas where lawyers wanted death penalty. That set a new law in those stated and later on the Supreme Court decided that the death penalty was constitutional under the eighth amendment.
There also has been the problem of overcrowding in prison and jails. Some people say that this is a problem but having more jails built will solve this problem. Having more prisons or jails built may help solve the problem however the death penalty effectively stop draining more money from the taxpayers to house murderers. These murders get three warm meals a day; they do nothing all day, and have a place to sleep just because the taxpayers fund these facilities. Murders on death row do not deserve to receive a place to stay. They deserve to acquire their