Summary:
Discusses the issue of capital punishment. Describes why it should be considered as punishment for certain crimes. Explores the economic issues concerning capital punishment.
Crime is everywhere. In our neighborhood, in the town, in our Country. Criminals have become a part of our daily lives. In the media you are bombarded with so many crimes such as burglary and theft. I am not proposing that a person, who stole bread from a grocery store, deserves death penalty. However, a serial killer, who kills people for fun or for his personal enjoyment, should be looked at as a candidate. The death penalty should be administered for particularly heinous crimes. The death penalty when it was still in the legal system served as an effective deterrent for brutal crimes like premeditated murder and for serial killings. Society is constantly complaining that its taxes are being use to house brutal criminals and keep them away, Capital Punishment is not necessarily cheaper but it saves the cost of housing. Also Capital Punishment is also a way for the victims family to heal.
When you were a child and your parent said don't do that or your will be spanked. You'd think about it and whether or not you still did what they told you not to you new the consequences. When you commit premeditated murder you would know what the consequence was the death penalty. By knowing the consequence the murderer will be in full control of his life. If you murder once what is to say you won't murder again. The victims family has been in pain and would feel that this is what you deserve.
Closure is a apart of the healing process members of the family need this to move on with their lives. In many cases of serial killers the families have beenbonded by their losses. Capital Punishment is a way for the victims families to begin the healing process. Many of the victims family will wish death upon the murderer. It is not good enough for the family to see the murderer to go away for live in prison, This is also hard on society's pocket books.
For the millions of people in Canada that are tired of funding government housing for criminals, The death penalty is a solution. Although it is not cheaper per say, it is a fact that it costs approximately the same for one person to be put to death with the lethal injection as it is to feed an supply for a prisoner in prison. That does not include the fact that it costs billions of dollars to build one of these prisons, it costs millions to pay for security to risk their lives by being in that environment, not to mention the economic downfall it brings to the surrounding area. Looking in to the long term it will end up potentially saving money by detouring crime.
For a crime of murder, The death penalty should be a solution. The effects it has is being a deterrent for crime. By raising the bar it helps the victims family move on and start to enjoy live. This is a way of keeping the taxation of the public and saving the cost of building new high security institutions. Perhaps it will come back in the years to come, their will always be people out their that feel the need to murder, But it takes all sorts of people to make the world go around.
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