Persuasive Essay Pro Death Penalty

If someone brutally beat and killed one of your family members, would you want them sentenced to death? In the United States, the death penalty is legal in 31 states, while illegal in 19. This topic is universally controversial and generally debated upon. Different forms of execution are performed throughout all including Electrocution, Lethal injection, Gas inhalation, and hanging in Washington. As of 2018, the death penalty continues to be enforced and should stay that way as long as the crime can be proven as a form of purposeful homicide!

Since 1976, there has been reported just over 8000 people sentenced to death in the United States. While there have been many sentence to death who were eventually found to be innocent, there have been much more who should have but was never pursued. From 315 in the year of 1996, to 31 in 2016, we’ve come a long way in the past couple decades, but is that exactly a good thing? Human moral knows what is right from wrong, and those who chose to commit to the crime are deserving of only the highest form of prosecution. As blank says, “The death penalty honors human dignity.”

Wednesday February 14, 2018 in Parkland Florida, Stoneman Douglas High School was opened fire to by none other than a former student.

Nikolas Cruz, 19, was expelled in earlier years for as Sheriff Scott Israel says “disciplinary reasons, but i am unaware of the specifics.” Students,Teachers,Pedestrians,and even Coaches were opened fire at, and taken to local hospitals, resulting in 17 dead and 16 more injured. There are many questions over this unspeakable tragedy, some being “why did he do it” and “what will be his punishment. The first question continues to stay unknown, while the second may be

answered.

In the state of Florida, the death penalty is punishable by First-degree murder, felony murder, capital drug trafficking, and capital sex battery. If guilty, Cruz’s action resulting in a capital crime, could force the jury to sentence the death penalty under state law. 17 innocent deaths are a lot, and it’s only right for Cruz to deserve equal punishment, providing justice and closure to families. As it may cost much money to put him to his death, and it may be wrong according to our ten commandments, it’s the only logically correct actions to take. Some may argue, “who has the power and authority to take his life.” Well, this man chose to commit to what he had done, and what gives him the right to be locked up and fed 3 meals a day, out from harms’ way from the outside world?

In conclusion, occurrences like this continue to happen, and there is nothing we can do about it except provide equal due to people who are deserving of such. The putting to death of men and women who decide to take actions of this sort, express human tranquility, though there may always be a wound left open, since there is no turning back death. The death penalty shall continue to stay as is, and criminals shall stay deserving of the death penalty of those who commit a crime high enough of deservitation!