Murderers should not be allowed to walk the streets after being found guiltily of brutally violent crimes. Deterrence is a strategy that our justice system uses to reduce or eliminate future criminal behavior. As the criminal's family members hope that rehabilitation can effect a scheduled death from taking place, retribution is what the victims' family members mostly depend on. Restoration is required by the victims and their family members to feel "whole again." The death penalty should continue to be allowed in our justice system. The death penalty is neither cruel nor unusual punishment
             The death penalty is not a violation of the eighth amendment by being cruel and unusual punishment. The current means of the death penalty is accomplished by lethal injection, usually performed in a controlled environment with several witnesses present and supervised by a doctor. Considering that A majority of the criminals sentenced to the death penalty has murdered other humans by: mutilation, stabbing, torture, rape, and many other violent acts of murder. There is no way that the death penalty could be considered cruel or unusual.
             The three most common forms of executions in the United States are: electrocution, the gas chamber, and lethal injection (Mortimer 67). As of October 13, 1998, there have been 46 lethal injections and one gas chamber execution this year in the U.S. Four of those are in the first two weeks of October (USA executions). This tells me that there is a lot of crime in society. Law enforcement officials are protecting our nation to the best of their ability; therefore, it is our duty to see that justice is served. Deterrence uses punishment as an act to convince people who contemplate criminal activity that crimes will not be tolerated in society. Being well aware of the crimes that they are committing they just don't anticipate on being caught. Those individuals con
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