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Capital Punishment
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Capital Punishment Controversy over this subject has lingered among human beings for many centuries in some form or another. It has gotten exceptionally controversial since authority has been handed down to state level. Those in opposition have raised such issues against the death penalty as inconsistent application, that it has little or no deterrent, that it has no effect on premeditated crime, that it is no more effective than a life sentence but is more costly, that it encourages violence in society, and that it is simply inhumane. It is after much research and thought that I must disagree. This is especially hard for me as I have a stepbrother who is doing a life sentence and according to the stand I am going to attempt to argue, should have been executed. That is not easy to say but in my opinion it is true. Though I feel that the death penalty is needed, I must admit I am not totally in opposition with all points expressed from those who disagree with it. My stepbrother is an example that the death penalty is applied inconsistently. Jeffrey Dalmer is another. Instead we are asking the victims family to assist the state with feeding them, clothing them, attend to their medical needs, provide legal assistance to them, keep them warm in the winter and cool in the summer! Both of this crimes were premeditated and in accordance with another felony crime. Why then were they not sentenced to death? Those in opposition are correct on that one. Deterrent is another issue that is in question by those in opposition. Well, how much of a deterrent is it to know that the worst thing that will happen to me if I commit this crime is that I will spend the rest of my life with someone else footing the bill? What is to stop me from killing again just because I am incarcerated? Murderers have and do kill again while incarcerated. What do they have to fear? What is the deterrent? They are already doing a life sentence. Studies have shown that after the abolishment of the death penalty in the 1960’s that murders increased rapidly.
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