Records of the early use of capital punishment, "legal infliction of the death penalty, " are dated all the way back to 1750 BC. Research has shown that during the colonial days of the United States, the death penalty was strongly supported and often made a public display. Many later saw this as inhumane and soon led to changing views on capital punishment. These changes later led the Supreme Court to abolish capital punishment in 1972, but later the courts reinstated it with certain conditions. Now in the United States, there are thirty-eight states that incorporate the use of the death penalty. Support of the death penalty from society is strong and studies prove that capital punishment is essential for the lowering of the crime rate and for preventing the recurrence of crime.
             Under a new law, "three strikes and you are out," in New York, criminals that commit three serious offenses are then jailed with no chance of parole. Now imagine, there is a man robbing you with a gun. He has already had two serious offenses and knows that if he gets caught he will be in jail for life. He then has two choices: (1.) he can take your money and run, knowing your testimony will give him life in prison; or (2.) he can kill you and eliminate the star witness to the crime. The penalty for that would also be life in prison (Tucker 1). The idea for this plan comes from the perception that only a hand full of "hard core" criminals commits seventy percent of all violent crimes. The theory is that locking these people up and throwing away the key, will make our streets safe again. Unfortunately, this method will not to be successful. The predictable result is that more and more crimes will result in murder because Americans have not grasped what it means to live without the death penalty (Tucker 2).
             Many people say that the death penalty does not deter crime; therefore there is no use for it. If capital punishment is dismissed...