Death Penalty
Uploaded by knele21 on Dec 16, 2000
Death penalty-to be or not to be? Sometimes crime cannot be punished enough. Sometimes crime is so cruel that there is no realistic punishment for it. There are too many victims out there, that suffered and their attacker gets a simple painless death. I am saying painless comparing to murders that happen every day that are simply horrifying. As Paul A. Winters says “If a person commits a uniquely gruesome murder, he deserves to be put to death” (Winters et al. 154). So many murderers are convicted of the crime of murder and they only get years in jail. Their victims feel the pain, but imagine the pain and sorrow that the families of the victims feel, and that pain lasts for the rest of their lives. If someone from my family was killed, I wouldn’t think a second what to do with the murderer. I would want him dead. Most of the families feel this way and the best way to stop the pain is to get rid off the cause of the pain.
Death sentence is effective because it deters crimes, but many people argue that life without parole is much harder to serve for the person who committed the crime, “Abolitionist claim there are some alternative to the death penalty, they say that life without parole serves just as well” (Guilmette 2). I agree that putting away the murderer is effective, but just isn’t enough. Laws change, so do parole boards, and people forget the past. As long as the murderer there is a small possibility that he could strike again. Capital punishment is the most effective weapon against the murderers; because no executed murderer has ever killed again. You cannot say that about those sentenced to prison.
Death sentence also depends on the case. I am not saying that everybody who commits the murder should be placed on the death row. There are different types of the murder and every murder that was planned or intentional should be severely punished. As Hugo Adam Badeu says, “Despicable crimes should be dealt with realistically” (Badeu et al. 131). I have no mercy for the killers, and nobody should have any mercy for anybody who does harm to another human being. Who gives a right to anyone to commit crime anyway? Michael Kronenwetter says, “The death penalty has always been considered especially appropriate for the crime of murder” (Kronenwetter 6)....