Should violent offenders be forced to face heavier penalties for their crimes?

I think so. And that there should also be some reforms made to our penal system.

The death penalty serves its purpose, it kills, instills fear, and generally wastes

tax-payers time and money. I think we need stiffer penalties as an alternative to the

death penalty because some of the penalties we have now are becoming ineffective,

because a lot of them are very expensive, and because many violent offenders are

When a violent crime is committed, after the court proceedings are over, and

if the accused is found guilty, the jury may rule that the criminal should be

incarcerated for life. In which case the criminal is brought to a penitentiary, given a

home, food ,clothing and possibly a job. I realize that there are people out there who

are the ones who want less crime, and a hardly demeaning lifestyle for criminals.

may his blood be shed.' This classic argument in favor of the death penalty has

understand. The writer says in his paper that even though the death penalty is used

out of that 20 and is released? Repeat offenders should not be released until there is

This is a huge amount of taxpayers' money, but the public looks at it as an

punishments on them, and the money tax-payers pay into our nations criminal

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