Capital punishment is the lawful infliction of the
             death penalty, and since ancient times, it has been
             used to punish a large variety of offenses. The
             penalty of death is reserved for the most serious and
             detested crimes. The legal system must sentence the
             death penalty to capital crime offenders. Criminals
             convicted of murder or rape need to be executed
             because they are dangerous to the world and the human
             race. However, America seems to to always want to put
             people in prison for life, but how is that fair to the
             criminals who did not commit such a horrible crime,
             but still gets the same punishment? The death penalty
             should be used more often, but is the death penalty
             the answer to crime? The death penalty is not the
             perfect answer to crime. Criminals should often be put
             to death; but this supposes a frequency of crimes, and
             from hence the punishment will cease to have its
             effect, so that it must be useful and useless at the
             same time (Black 74). So in other words, in all states
             where death is used as a punishment, every example
             supposes a new crime committed. To back these
             statements, facts show that since the reinstatement of
             capital punishment there has been over 255 executions
             with Texas at the top with 84 and Florida with 33
             (Bender, Leone 103). Another statistic shows that more
             murders take place in states that use capital
             punishment. The common-sense argument that death is
             the best deterrent of crime rests on the belief that
             people fear death more than they fear anything else.
             If this, is true, then threatening a person with death
             will have a greater effect on their behavior than any
             other threat. However, according to Stephen Nathanson,
             people would rather die than spend the rest of their
             Despite these facts, capital punishment should still
             be enforced on more criminals. The death penalty was
             used in Biblical times for crimes such as kidnapping
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