Capital Punishment

             When you think of capital punishment, what is the first thing that comes to your mind? Well the first thing that comes to my mind is the Death Penalty. Death Penalty is not in all states but mostly in the southern states. I do not know how it works out that way, but it is just the way it is. The state of Texas has the highest percentage of killing people that are on death row in the prisons. Many times people that go into prison for a life sentence end up getting parole and possibly letting to go back on the streets commit the same crime or a different sort of crime. This instance is called recidivism, this is when a prisoner has a life sentence and then they let him or her out and then a commit another major crime. I personally think that the death penalty should be harsher and more violent than what it is. They should not be able to die with no pain, they should have to die the same way that they had killed their victim that put them on death row. If someone has been put on death row or a life sentence then there should not be any possible way to get out unless they really are not the guilty party. Too many inmates get away with too much leeway and too much freedom than deserved. The Texas prison system is so overloaded with inmates that they already do not have enough room for many more. If they would just start killing them faster then there would be more room and less possible chance for recidivism. Thomas Jefferson even had a great quote on the issue, "Whosoever shall be guilty of rape, polygamy, sodomy with man or women, shall be punished, if a man, by castration, if a women by cutting through the cartilage of her nose a hole of one half inch in diameter at the least. [And] whosoever shall maim another, or shall disfigure him...shall be maimed, or disfigured in the like sort: or if that cannot be, for want of some part, then as nearly as may be, in some other part of at least equal value." (Pojman, 19) I believ...

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