Pro Capital Punishment
"Capital punishment involves determining whether the execution of criminals is ever justified, and if so under what circumstances." (Fieser pg 1)While searching on the Internet one found a reason why capital punishment is justifiable. According to Murder Victims, Brandon Carpenter lived a happy but short life. After his mom and dad got divorced Matthew Lilly, his mom's boyfriend, moved in. Matthew became the caretaker while Brandon's mom what at work. At that time things began to happen. Brandon fell of his bike (according to Matt) and broke his arm. Little bruises began to appear, but he explained how the boys were roughhousing. On April 8, 2000 Brandon's mom, Billie, left for work. It was the last time she seen him alive. The boys would be the only witnesses to the murder. Matt asked the neighbor to come over and watch the boys so he could pick up Billie. He said Brandon was upstairs napping, so they only had to watch Hunter, Brandon's little brother. After running errands, !Matt and Billie arrived home. Billie put Hunter in the high chair and called for Brandon. When he didn't respond she went up to get him. She found Brandon lying lifeless with his eyes open, and his face a mass of bruises. She screamed at Matt to call 911 a
ves people the right to take a life and not have to die for their crimes? The death penalty is a good punishment of rall the people who think it's justified for them to take a life. The death penalty is a major consequence to criminal's actions. "There have been 56 executions in the USA in 1995, more in one year since executions resumed in 1976, and there has been a 12 percent drop in the murder rate nation wide"(Lowe pg3) Its not like the death penalty gives the government the right to kill a criminal each day. It gives the murder victims family a reason to rest each night knowing the killer of their loved one will be put to death for their crime. prostitutes were being found. Finally on November 17, 1998, McDuff was executed by the state of Texas. Life without parole would have worked, but laws change and so do parole boards and a majority of murders occur in prisons. For instance, in 1918, two young men became obsessed with Friedrich Nietzsche's ideas (a German philosopher) about how "supermen" would be justified in taking a life of one of the "lesser breeds". These two young men were Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold. In 1923, they decided to put this theory to test. They picked and chose from their line of victims. Finally, they chose Robert Franks, Loeb's 14-year old cousin. On May 24, they drove to Robert's school and enticed him into their rental car. They sexually abused him. Then killed him with a chisel and buried him in deserted spot near the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks 20 miles away. They were then caught because of a pair of glasses linked them to Leopold. In the interrogation, Loeb told them everything. Finally, after a long trial based on how unjust the death penalty is and the state of mind and age of the ! urinates, or vomits blood. (Sandholzer pg2) The third most popular choice is the gas chamber. Some of the 5 stares still using it are California, Missouri, and Wyoming. The prisoner is restrained in a hermetically sealed steel chamber. The executioner opens the valve, pours hydrochloric acid into the pan, and then drops 8 ounces of potassium cyanide crystals or tablets into the acid, which produces hydrocyanic gas. The gas destroys the ability of blood hemoglobin to perform. The gas chamber is then evacuated and the prisoner in decontaminated in bleach. (Sandholzer pg 3) The least
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