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Thousands will die. They are victims of senseless murder, but should the murderous felons die as well? Capital Punishment is a major controversy. Debating whether they receive execution or spend the rest of their ruined lives rotting in a jail cell seems pointless. The government throws away these human’s lives. We control the lives of these criminals and we should not waste them. We should use the thousands of them to better our society. Rather than capital punishment, the government should create work teams using death row criminals to better our communities.The death penalty has been debated since the beginning of humankind. Today a total of 94 countries and territories use the death penalty for ordinary crime, including the United States. In the other 57 countries in the world, the death penalty no longer exists. In some of the 57 countries, capital punishment is only banned for ordinary crimes and still effective for military crimes or crimes committed in exceptional circumstances such as wartime (Doan, 2). Currently 34 of the states in the U.S. exercise capital punishment. The most recent to abolish capital punishment was Massachusetts, in 1984, and New York, in 1995, was the most recent to reinstate it, accor
Those opposing the death penalty would obtain some level of satisfaction with a work program for death row inmates. “More often than not, families of murder victims do not experience the relief they expected to feel at the execution, says Lula Redmond, a Florida therapist.” (qtd. Brownlee 28). “The United States is the execution capital of the world. Now isn’t that something to be proud of?” Katie Kondrat asks sarcastically in “The Death Penalty a Just Punishment?”. “A killer who is killed can not kill again, but a killer in jail until he dies also can’t kill.” The well known argument against capital punishment remains as the morality issue. Some say killing the murderer will not bring the victim back to life. The U.S. needs a plan that will not execute but use the remaining lifetimes in a positive manner. Kondrat, Katie. “Death Penalty a Just Punishment?” 8 March, 1996 http://www-scf. edu/~mweaver/pa...5/iss6/editorial/faceoff.6.45.html Snell, Tracy L. “Capital Punishment Archives.” National Archive of Criminal Justice Data at the University of Michigan 1973-1995
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