In our world today, we look at each other to see what is acceptable and what is not. This same mentality is also used with people in regard to crime. If one man sees another jailed for committing a crime, he will think twice before committing that same crime. The death penalty has the same, or even a greater effect on deterring people from breaking the law. When someone’s life is argued over to decide if it will be ended or not, rather than how much jail time is given, this is the worst possible punishment that can be given. In opposition to the death penalty, people note the fact that since the death penalty has first been used, murders and many other felonies have not decreased. This fact is true today only because of the rate at which prisoners are being executed is minuscule. If crime was symbolized as a forest fire, the rate at w

hich the death penalty is used to extinguish the fire would be compared to that of a water gun. The death penalty will deter people when it is used as much as any other punishment is used, for example the relationship between driving offenses and tickets. The fear of death will persuade people not to commit crimes when they actually think it could happen to them.

Just as every other punishment from the court is justifiable, so is the death penalty. The use of the death penalty is needed in society to serve those who have been violated, or those who have the potential to be violated. The question that needs to be asked in the debate over the death penalty is, “What is justice in this situation?”. There is no need for debate over whether the death penalty is a “cruel and unusual” punishment, because any punishment given by the law can be argued over. In one person’s eyes, life imprisonment is a cruel punishment, while in another’s, there can be a totally different opinion. Society needs the law to give ample punishment for heinous crimes by stepping over the moral lines to protect its people. In this nation, the authorities sometimes break the rules to catch the bad guys or to keep people safe. Just as a police man would speed to catch a speeder, the law needs to give a punishment equal to that of the crime that was committed.

Not only does the use of the death penalty keep convicts from committing other crimes, it also gives emotional closure for the family who was offended. When a family has a crime commi

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