Capital Punishment Essay - It’s Time to Put Murderers in Their Graves

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You are running down the street with your best friend not too far

behind. You manage to round the corner, but you hear your friend trip.

Suddenly a shot rings out. Your friend screams. You continue to run, but

look back and see the man who was following you pull out a large knife.

Shocked in terror you can only blankly stare as the man proceed to cut your

friend to pieces. The blade falls once. There is an explosion of red. The

blade falls twice. Entrails spill onto the floor. The blade falls three

times, four times, five, six. He then reaches down and dips is hand into

the blaring pool of crimson that soaks the ground. Lifting his hand he

begins to write on the wall in front of him with the freshly spilled blood

of your now dead friend.

Would a situation like this horrify you? Well you should know that

seven murders just like this occurred in two nights. The man responsible

is Charles Manson.

Manson is the leader of a large cult following, and even after being

arrested for his truly horrific deeds still influences the cult today. In

1975 one of Manson's followers, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, made an

assassination attempt on then president Gerald Ford, in Manson's name. Even

now if you go to New York City you can find shirts with his picture on them,

glorifying him. Songs have been written praising him.

But together these have not yet touched the scariest thing about

Charles Manson. The thing that you should be most frightened of is that

Charles Manson, and many like him are alive, with chance of parole. Yes

this murderous madman could yet again run rampant in the world. It is for

this reason that the death penalty is necessary.

Capital punishment is the system by which the people who have

committed the most heinous crimes are executed either by electric chair,

gas chamber, or lethal injection.

Despite the evil and malice presented by such people there are some

who would deem this practice inhumane. It seems strange to me that the

welfare of the community should not come before that of a convicted

murderer. If there is any chance that this person could possibly commit

this crime again it should be impossible to come to a decision ,such as

putting them in jail with chance of parole, that could conceivable place

the lives of law abiding citizens in danger. Furthermore do they truly

expect us to believe that placing them in cells like caged animals is truly

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