Capital Punishment
When you think of capital punishment, what is the first thing that comes to your mind? Well the first thing that comes to my mind is the Death Penalty. Death Penalty is not in all states but mostly in the southern states. I do not know how it works out that way, but it is just the way it is. The state of Texas has the highest percentage of killing people that are on death row in the prisons. Many times people that go into prison for a life sentence end up getting parole and possibly letting to go back on the streets commit the same crime or a different sort of crime. This instance is called recidivism, this is when a prisoner has a life sentence and then they let him or her out and then a commit another major crime. I personally think that the death penalty should be harsher and more violent than what it is. They should not be able to die with no pain, they should have to die the same way that they had killed their victim that put them on death row. If someone has been put on death row or a life sentence then there should not be any possible way to get out unless they really are not the guilty party. Too many inmates get away with too much leeway and too much freedom than deserved. The Texas prison
Kroll, Michael A. "The Fraternity of Death". Temple University Press. It costs the state of Texas around forty five thousand dollars a year to house each inmate our prison system. There millions of Texans that do not even make forty-five thousand dollars a year, but we can spend that to keep one man or woman that has gone and killed our citizens and hopefully not but it is the case one of our relatives. When I think of recidivism, the thing that comes to my mind is the case of Kenneth McDuff . McDuff, 52, is the only Texas death row inmate ever to be paroled and later sentenced to death again for another capital murder. He served six years on death row for the slayings of three Tarrant County teen-agers in 1966. After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the death penalty unconstitutional in 1972, his sentence was commuted to life in prison and the Rosebud native was paroled in 1989. This is the exact definition of recidivism, he later was then sent back to prison for threatening two men with a knife and then later paroled one year later to get out again. This refers back to how the death penalty should be harsher. This man has been given too many chances as it is. Later this man again goes on another killing spree and is tied to many more deaths. In a one-week period, the graves of three victims from serial killer Kenneth McDuff's rampage across Central Texas have revealed secrets that have not been able to be proven in over seven years. McDuff, was sentenced to death for a lady named ,Colleen Reed, for her being murdered, but never found out where the body was. He was scheduled to be executed on October 21 for the killing of Reed, but a federal court gave him a stay. Which means he got out of execution one more time. This type of behavior has to stop and if we do not stop things like this then it will never come to an end and we will have to deal with this recidivism more many years to come. "If capital punishment doesn't work as a deterrent, we've come out ahead, but if it does work, then we've missed an opportunity to save innocent lives. If we value to bet on a policy of capital punishment turns out to be rational. The reasoning goes like this." (Pojman, 40) This is a
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