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The death penalty has been one of the nation?s most controversial issues. Those who favor the death penalty should realize that by execution the criminal is not given anytime to reflect on their mistake. People should not be sentenced to die since the reasons for executing someone are not strong enough to absolutely persuade everyone. Those who favor the death penalty believe that criminals who have committed murder deserve to die because they use up the precious taxpayers money. However there is no doubt that someone can do more alive than dead. By working, the criminal can pay back society and also their victim and the victim?s family. First of all, the offender should be required to compensate the victim?s family with the offender?s own income from employment or community service. There is no reason for the criminal to receive any compensation for his work, since money has no value
------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**. Secondly, officials often defend the death penalty as not being cruel and unusual, but in the case of John Evans who was executed by electrocution in 1983. The victim?s family said that experiencing Perry?s death actually brought more pain and suffering than the murder of their daughter. An official there even tried to stop the execution on accounts of it being cruel and unusual punishment, but was unsuccessful. People in favor of capital punishment claim that by murdering the criminal they are finally bringing closure to the victim?s family. Electrocution causes extensive burns and usually needs more than one application of electric current to kill the condemned. Whenever the death penalty is used, it makes murders of us all. They were both spared the death penalty and sentenced to life imprisonment. I understand that the parents of the murdered woman felt they were getting justice with his death. For example, in 1924 Leopold and Loeb were nineteen when they kidnapped and murdered a fourteen-year-old boy just to see what it was like. The death penalty is and will probably always be a controversial issue. Who are we to judge if someone should be killed or not? No one should have the authority to play God, not even the state. For the reason that they felt as if they were killing him themselves. This argument is false because according to witnesses at the scene Mr. However, no matter what they would have done with Perry would have never brought their daughter back.
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