Capitol Punishment

A detailed Summary of Capitol Punishment

Benny Hodge escaped from prison, where he was awaiting sentencing after murdering Joseph Acker and Mr. Acker's young daughter Tammy. Weeks later, Hodge entered the home of Patricia Sanborn and stabbed Mrs. Sanborn to death while her two children pleaded for him to stop. He then beat and stabbed Will in front of a hysterical Chrissy, before stabbing five-year-old Chrissy nine times, killing her. Hodge stole $37 from the home before being apprehended by the police. Young Will lived through his ordeal, only to have Hodge threaten during the trial that he'd "finish the job and kill Will" as soon as he got out of prison.

Any society is based on laws. Without laws, everybody would be free to steal, kill, etc., and society would dissolve. (Read LORD OF THE FLIES sometime.)

At GA there are consequences for breaking rules. If you are running in the halls, you earn an MDR. If you do something worse, you earn a detention, breaking a still-more serious rule can result in Disciplinary Probation, and a still-more-serious can cause a student to be expelled. This is logical; the punishment's in proportion to the offense.

In criminal law, there are consequences for breaking laws. These consequences are earned in proportion to th

Benny Hodge escaped from prison, where he was awaiting sentencing after murdering Joseph Acker and Mr. Acker's young daughter Tammy. Weeks later, Hodge entered the home of Patricia Sanborn and stabbed Mrs. Sanborn to death while her two children pleaded for him to stop. He then beat Will in front of Chrissy, before stabbing five-year-old Chrissy nine times, killing her. Hodge stole $37 from the home before being apprehended by the police. Young Will lived through his ordeal, only to have Hodge yell during the trial that he'd "finish the job and kill Will" as soon as he got out of prison.

We established the US Constitution as the supreme law of this land. The 8th Amendment to the Constitution prevents "cruel and unusual punishment." The death penalty is neither cruel nor unusual. Example: When a criminal is executed using nitrous asphyxiation, the body just continues to breathe normally until it simply passes out when the blood oxygen falls too low. The criminal is unconscious, literally feeling nothing when they die. There is another method of execution in which the criminal might feel brief seconds of pain: lethal injection. I argue that those few brief seconds are irrelevant, when compared to what Benny Hodge caused young Chrissy Sanborn to suffer, not to mention all his other victims.

1) In perhaps the definitive study of the death penalty, Professor Isaac Ehrlich of the University of Chicago demonstrated that the publicity surrounding each execution deters eight future murders. (The ACLU, among other groups, challenged Professor Ehrlich's numbers. After reviewing them in detail, they claimed the study was very flawed...because his numbers only proved that the publicity surrounding an execution only deters 5.3 murders!)

2. "We shouldn't execute a murderer because we'd be no better than them."

Any society is based on laws. Without laws, everybody would be free to kill, take whatever they wanted, and society would dissolve. (Read LORD OF THE FLIES sometime.)

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