Many people think that the death penalty is cruel for the murderers, however, it is also cruel for the relatives and friends of the killed ones. Executing the murderer would give them a bit of ease over the death. Nothing can bring a killed, loved one back, but knowing that the cruel murderer is going to be executed will help the relatives and friends get over the death. If the killer gets penalized with the death by the government, he won't be able to get out of prison after 20 or 30

Another reason to legalize the death penalty in all 50 states is that it would prevent many people from even doing it. If you know that you're going to be punished by death if you convict a crime where somebody gets killed, than everybody is going to think twice about even doing it. People who are planning a crime think about many reasons why to do it, and why not to, but having the knowledge of sitting in that electric chair, and feeling the 10000 volts of electricity spreading through your body, is going to make a huge impression on you, and will probably make you change your mind. Legalizing the death penalty would prevent many future killers sitting in their prison cells and waiting for their sentences to go by. The statistics show that the number of executions has been rising nationally. According to the National Review, "Since 1995, 126 prisoners have been put to death in Texas. That's out of a total of 625 executions in the country during the entire period since 1976". (p.1, http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?RQT=341) This statistic shows that the government is tending

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