The Penalty should fit the Crime that is committed, then society would become a safer place to live in. Imagine a man who commits murder, do you think a fifteen
jail sentance fits the crime that the man has committed? I believe not, have a problem with throwing a man back into society who obviously has a history of being violent and very likely a man that has committea violent crime such as murder end up as a repeat offender. Almost one in ten death row inmates has been convicted of murder at least
once. It's obvious that some of these inmates had the chance to rehibilitate and think about what they did and why it was wrong, and these repeat offenders still chose to continue to go out and commit a violent crime. Are we suppose to feel safe in society knowing that any day we could run into one of these convicts and become the
victim? There is not enough evidence to prove whether or not capital punishment deters crime, statistics do not show any pattern where is less violent crimes that carry the death penalty. But it is hard to compare states that have the death penalty to states that rarely use it, if all the states implemented the death penalty and uses it consistently with certain crimes it would become easier to compare and get data and crime statistics to see whether or not the fear of the death penalty lowers the numbers of violent crimes. For all the states to implement the death penalty relistically probably won't happen in our life time,
but you would have to set equal standards in each state for the certain crimes that include the death penalty for consistency.
There we'll still be other doubts, how exspensive capital punishment is? Since none other than we the people would be the ones paying for it with our tax dollars. With all the court cases and appeals the process is slowed severly, unless the courts could somehow limit the number
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