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The Death Penalty

 

             In the United States the Death Penalty is the harshest punishment there is for committing a crime. Although there are only a few crimes that accompany such punishment, such as: terrorist attacks, serial murders, felony murder (a felony was committed and in the process so was murder.). Timothy McVeigh and Michael Ross are two recipients of such a punishment. They remain on death row awaiting their pre-determined fate. Michel Ross battles a mental disease named Sexual Sadism, which he says led him to commit the horrific crimes that have been charged against him; he now realizes how morally wrong his crimes were. Yet Timothy McVeigh feels no remorse, and has said: "[ .] I feel no sympathy for them-, referring to the children whom were killed in the bombing. Some in turn feel that the justice system should have no sympathy for Timothy McVeigh. Should his death sentence be commuted? No! If we were to reconsider changing the punishment of a man who didn't reconsider the fate of any of the innocent people who would die in the Federal Building in Okalahoma (due to the bomb he planted). Why should his fate be reconsidered?.
             Timothy McVeigh has been convicted of eleven counts of murder, conspiracy, and use of a weapon of mass destruction and sentenced to death. However Timothy McVeigh believes that what he has done, has made the government aware of his cause; yet the government's main concern has been to make sure Timothy McVeigh's sentence will be carried out. Which Michael Ross may have committed his crimes because of a mental disorder; Timothy McVeigh's reasons were political. McVeigh did not like the government's handling of the Waco Texas and Ruby Ridge Idaho cases; "What the U.S. government did at Waco and Ruby Ridge was dirty . I gave dirty right back to them at Oklahoma City- he says. April 19, 1995 marked the two-year anniversary of the government's takeover of the compound in Waco, Texas McVeigh said "The date was too important to put off "the 19th [ .


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