the average American home the the oval office in the White House for countless amounts

of years. The opposing sides each state their claim on why we should, or shouldn't allow

the death penalty to be administered to those criminals who the courts believe should be

killed. Each argument has very valid reasons on why the death penalty is right and wrong,

and they both have convincing points to prove their argument. The social problems within

capital punishment vary from it being morally right or wrong, humane or inhumane, to the

excessive time and money that is spent during appeals and stays of execution. This paper

will focus on the problem of the justice system, and why we should and should not grant

numerous appeals and stays of execution.

Capital Punishment has been around since the days of Christ, and its results have

not changed, only the way capital punishment is administered has. States such as

California use the gas chamber as the means to end the convict's life, while Texas and

Florida have used the electric chair in the past, the remedy for death is now by using

leatheal injection to end the convicts life. Death

Pain. Anger. Frustration. Hatred. These feeble words do not describe the anguish

Norman, Jane. "Iowa remains on shrinking list of states without the death penalty." The

violent murders by eliminating some of the repeat offenders thus being used as a system of

reform would be to provide swift, certain, and fair punishment. Swift punishment can be

just sentence, and that life in prison sentence would be to lenient. In 1995, prison

cases where the jury or judge feels that it is the only way to go about giving the murderer a

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