The Death Penalty

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I believe that the capital punishment is an excellent thing that every state should have and use for definite reasons. The penalty must be effective and first-class as well since it’s been in history for a long period of time. The death penalty has varied in kinds of capital punishments throughout history such as burning, drowning, crucifixion, breaking on the will, boiled to death, hanging, gas chambers, firing squads and numerous other forms of execution. The more well known forms of capital punishments that are used today that started in the seventies are death by lethal injection or electrocution. Throughout the years, people have debated over the death penalty regarding if it is an incorrect or correct thing to do, and I do believe it’s a just thing to do. True, the death penalty may be considered wrong sometimes, for instance how it takes an enormous amount of money to use the death penalty on someone because of the precautions the court goes through to make sure that the person that was put on death row is in fact guilty and not in fact innocent. How it costs less for an inmate to be in prison for life with no parole than to be executed. True it may cost more, but why would you want a killer, a rapist or some other form of an insidious offender to live effortlessly with a bed and three course meals, while they had victimized innocent people. Like the example given up above, there are some cons to the death penalty, but the pros are there as well and cannot just be ignored. The death penalties pro side is just as important as the con side because the pro side of the death penalty does help our society in some form or another. Some of those supporting claims for the death penalty can be found as; retribution for the criminal... ... middle of paper ... ...y: should America have capital punishment? : the experts on both sides make their best case. Ed. Hugo Adam Bedau, Paul G. Cassell. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 183-213. Print. 3. ProCon.org. "Founding Fathers on Religion in Government." Top 10 Pros and Cons Should the death penalty be allowed? ProCon.org. 6 Nov. 2013. Web. 3 Apr. 2013. 4. "History of the Death Penalty & Recent Developments." History of the Death Penalty & Recent Developments. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 Nov. 2013. . 5. "Is the Death Penalty Immoral? - Death Penalty - ProCon.org." ProCon.org Headlines. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 Nov. 2013. . 6. "Costs of the Death Penalty." Death Penalty Information Center. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 Nov. 2013. .

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