"The most extraordinarily violent criminal ever to set foot in Falls County, Texas," is how the county district attorney explains Kenneth McDuff. McDuff had murdered two teenaged boys, then raped a girl, and then killed her by snapping her neck. The Texas Parole Board had lowered its standards for eligibility for parole and set McDuff free. Three days later, they found the naked and strangled body of his first victim. It took the authorities one-year to find McDuff after he had been set free. The authorities then charged McDuff with three counts of murder with six more cases still under investigation. This example shows that society is too lenient on today's criminals. Within the United States, there should be a point where we will let society know that this is not acceptable behavior. Capital Punishment should be continued because it would send a strong message to society, it would be the harshest sentence to give them, and it would solve the problem of over crowed prisons.
             If the United States sent out a strong message that if someone commits a violent crime, the offender will receive death as his or her punishment. If the United States enforced execution through out our country, there might not be numerous violent crimes being committed throughout country. Sentencing the people that commit violent acts to death. Violent offenders should not have the chance to live their lives out, as their victims never got the chance to live their lives out. In addition, criminals should not have the right to keep in contact with their family and friends while they serve their life sentence. They should have their lives destroyed as they had destroyed their victims' lives.
             To have violent offenders sentenced to death would be the harshest sentence they could receive. There should be no lesser sentence than death to the violent offender. Giving them life in prison is not serving the victims' families w
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