Murder or Punishment
"Are you for or are you against the death penalty?" This is a question often asked and highly debated by many Americans today. The death penalty is a very controversial issue with two distinct opposing views, with the pro side of the issue being the stronger of the two. There are many people who spend the majority of their live fighting for their side of this issue. From propaganda to speeches, to essays, society is filled with reasons to be pro or con the death penalty. It seems, to me, as though the reasons for being for capital punishment out weigh the competition by far. Sentencing a murderer to the death penalty is a good punishment that I support deeply because it brings justice and peace to the victims' families and morally it is right.Being wrongfully accused of a murder is a terrible thing. That is why many people oppose the death penalty. They are afraid that by using this way of punishment, that many innocent people are being executed for crimes they didn't commit. Bill Ryan, a retired social worker from the Illinois Death Penalty Moratorium Project, says that the recent parade of pardoned men marching off of Death Row, 13 in the past two years to be exact, has triggered the large movem
"Cary Ann Medlin." Yahoo! Geocities One reason the death penalty is an acceptable disciplinary act is because it brings justice and peace to the victim's family. Just imagine coming home one day and seeing your mother lying dead on the kitchen floor, killed in cold-blooded murder. Would you want the person who did this senseless act to sit in a jail cell for the rest of his/her life? When a family knows that the killer is behind bars and on death row, waiting to be executed, it brings a sense of justice and relief to them. In 1979 there was a case where a man kidnapped an eight year old girl, rapped her and then brutally murdered her. The murderer was finally found guilty, and given the death penalty in 1981. After 21 years of trails and appeals the murderer was executed. The family got to watch the execution from an adjoining room. After 21 years the family finally said that their daughter could rest in peace ("Cary"). Absent a verdict of death, in many cases, family members try to get revenge themselves. They often do this because they believe that the killer might not get the right punishment for the horrid crime that he/she committed. But, if the murderers are sentenced to death, this often stops most of the harsh reactions of the family members. Many times it also brings peace back into their lives just by knowing
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