Should the Death Penalty be Allowed?
Paul Davis
Mrs. Solis
English 101
11 December 2013
Should the Death Penalty be Allowed?
I am writing my research project on why the death penalty should be allowed and practiced by our government. People who are against the death penalty would say executions and court dates are too expensive and that the death penalty is harsh and immoral. People who choose to commit such horrible crimes should face the death penalty because our founding fathers supported capital punishment and did not consider it “cruel and unusual”(US Constitution). Many criminals stay in the jail systems too long and never actually face the death penalty that they deserve. The government needs to follow through with the punishment that the jury has ruled. The death penalty will protect our citizens by preventing future crime. I wrote on this topic because the death penalty would serve as the most effective deterrent to stop convicts from committing a serious crime, the criminal will cost the prisons more money in the long run, and crimes such as ;rape, kidnapping, murder, and treason cannot be overlooked. There is no better way to frighten criminals than by implementing the death penalty. Capital punishment serves as an efficient deterrent to lower crime rates. Statistics show that the death penalty will decrease the number of murders substantially. In the Wall Street Journal a professor at Pepperdine said “In the 1980’s the return of the death penalty was associated with a drop in the number of murders. Throughout the 1990s our society increased the number of executions, and the number of murders plummeted. Since 2001 there has been a decline in executions and an increase in murders.”( Summers). FBI sources supplied the data for the number of executions and number of murders for a 26-year period for this research. Capital punishment is a powerful factor in preventing criminals from committing serious crimes. If we execute the murderers that are sentenced to death potential murderers
Mrs. Solis
English 101
11 December 2013
Should the Death Penalty be Allowed?
I am writing my research project on why the death penalty should be allowed and practiced by our government. People who are against the death penalty would say executions and court dates are too expensive and that the death penalty is harsh and immoral. People who choose to commit such horrible crimes should face the death penalty because our founding fathers supported capital punishment and did not consider it “cruel and unusual”(US Constitution). Many criminals stay in the jail systems too long and never actually face the death penalty that they deserve. The government needs to follow through with the punishment that the jury has ruled. The death penalty will protect our citizens by preventing future crime. I wrote on this topic because the death penalty would serve as the most effective deterrent to stop convicts from committing a serious crime, the criminal will cost the prisons more money in the long run, and crimes such as ;rape, kidnapping, murder, and treason cannot be overlooked. There is no better way to frighten criminals than by implementing the death penalty. Capital punishment serves as an efficient deterrent to lower crime rates. Statistics show that the death penalty will decrease the number of murders substantially. In the Wall Street Journal a professor at Pepperdine said “In the 1980’s the return of the death penalty was associated with a drop in the number of murders. Throughout the 1990s our society increased the number of executions, and the number of murders plummeted. Since 2001 there has been a decline in executions and an increase in murders.”( Summers). FBI sources supplied the data for the number of executions and number of murders for a 26-year period for this research. Capital punishment is a powerful factor in preventing criminals from committing serious crimes. If we execute the murderers that are sentenced to death potential murderers
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