There are a few common angles to examine capital punishment. The retributive debate is one that is argued by pro-capital punishment voices. This argument follows a simple cause and effect balance. You commit a crime; you deserve punishment (Fieser

One final issue that comes up in the anti-capital sentencing campaign is racial profiling and the possibility of favoritism. This is one more exaggerated misconception with no empirical evidence to be found. The racial variety of death row inmates speaks for itself. In the year 2001, 1,969 death row inmates were white, 1,538 were black, 28 were American Indian, 33 were Asian and 13 were of unknown race (“Justice Statistics”).

Safety for all prison employees, other prisoners and the population outside of the institutions is of paramount importance. Anecdotal evidence is hardly ever enough to persuade an argument but in this case it is enough to raise a sincere doubt as to the probability and or likelihood that life in prison or rehabilitation of some kind is either appropriate or possible in all cases. Thomas Silverstein was serving time in a federal prison for murder. While in prison he killed again. He murdered three other inmates in 1979, 1981, and 1982 (Cassell par 3). He was serving three life sentences for these murders when he killed yet again. This time he killed two prison officers. Do we let him play cards in general population for the rest of his sentence? Can we really keep all other people in the prison safe from him? Clearly his sentence needed re-evaluation. Three life sentences is not punishment to fit his crime. Ten life sentences would not be punishment to fit his crime. We need clear and concise legal procedures for cases like these no matter how few and far between they might be. A solution would be for the federal government to create and implement a functional, all encompassing system for capital punishment that is regulated and maintained equally in all states. There is no getting around the fact that the death penalty is a costly judicial procedure. Kozinski and Gallagher offer the idea that a long list of crimes punishable by death should be traded for a very “narrow statute” that offers the punishment to the most severe criminal cases (Kozinski Galagher 588). This would stream line funds and reduce operational costs to just cover the most severe criminals and their cases.

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