A murder cannot be forgiven
A person can be involved in many different kinds of crimes. Each crime has its own punishment. Sometimes you get away with bail, or by serving community hours, and at other times you can be thrown to jail for a more serious crime. Very often people consider those punishments too severe compared to the crimes, especially if they are the ones committing it. Crimes such as murder, rape and sadism are too harsh for any penalty invented. The only way the criminal can repay for his crime is by death. Although the death penalty is the cruelest punishment, it's the best way to penalize the heartless, cold-blooded criminals. Even though we might not agree with the death penalty, we often realize that it's the only solution for some cases. As Edward I. Koch states in his article: "We may not like the death penalty, but it must be available to punish crimes of cold-blooded murder, cases in which any other form of punishment would be inadequate and, therefore, unjust"(Koch, 491). Edward Koch is trying to say that there are crimes committed by people who have something wrong with their mentality, people like murderers, rapists and sadists. Those people have to be punished not just to make sure that they
Sometimes it happens to be that the hard core criminals can't be rehabilitated, and the only thing that is left is death. On the other hand, each person should have a second chance. Prison could give criminals a good opportunity to change their views on life. Some people use that opportunity to change themselves, but some don't. A journalist Mike Royko gave us a good example of a person who didn't change. In the article "Death to the Killers", the author quotes a mother who says: "I'm the mother of one of the innocent victims. A man walked to the emergency demanding a shot of penicillin. When he heard no for an answer, he stomped out, went to his car, came back with a shotgun and killed my son. He was sentenced to life, but after several years the sentence was reversed on a technicality- it being that at the time of his trial it was mentioned that this was his second murder"(Royko, 354). It is obvious that this convict didn't change his way of life after his first murder, and he killed somebody for the second time. As I already mentioned earlier, there is no point to keep a prisoner in jail for the rest of his life for his second assassination because it's just a waste of our money. He had his second chance, but he didn't use it. So, the only thing that he truly deserves is an electric chair. The death penalty will not give him an opportunity to kill somebody again. A human's life is very precious, and people should not have the power to take it away. Unfortunately, we are not living in a perfect world and there are criminals who take upon themselves the right to kill others.
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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