dating back several hundred years because it is an effective punishment and deterrent.

Every individual must be accountable and every attempt at dissuading reoccurrences of

violent crimes must be taken. When we have the means to incapacitate violent offenders

and deter future murders, to not avail ourselves of the option to do so would be negligent.

Incapacitation is the most clear cut advantage to capital punishment. Certainly,

when a criminal is executed he poses no further threat to society, including other inmates

and correction officials. Execution of death row inmates also alleviates burdens to the

taxpayers in the forms of food, housing, and frivolous lawsuits that plague the justice

Less clear are the benefits of deterrence on future murders and violent crimes.

Statistics from the Bureau of Justice show that while fewer inmates were executed in

2003 than in the last seven years, violent crimes in states with capit

that he be killed in order to safeguard the common good” and that “punishment may be

victims of violent crimes, upon the demise of the one who created the tragedy. Some

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