Argumentative Essay: Abolishing The Death Penalty

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The death penalty should be legal. If it were there would be millions of murderers that wouldn’t be in the world anymore and everybody would be scared to kill again. Prisons are being over populated because we are letting Murderers live when they should be executed. Murderers should be killed all they do is cause problems. If they aren’t going to contribute to society in any way and they just kill people they aren’t useful. Murderers should be killed all they do is cause problems. They should be penalized because they murdered an innocent person. They killed someone and should be punished in the worst way possible. If they aren’t put in the electric chair or hanged they should have to do hard labor for people with no pay. Murders should be

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