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Death Penalty

 

            Imagine that you came home from work one night to find your entire family brutally murdered and strewn around the house. Maybe someone had a grudge on a family member and went crazy while you were gone. You are still alive today and, the rest of your is being lived day in and day out knowing that someone is still eating, breathing and socializing with other people after committing this heinous crime on your loving family. Later the criminal is caught and admitted to a jury that they did in fact kill your family. The criminal is prosecuted and found guilty of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole. They will be in prison the rest of their life living each day with some simple freedoms. Would you want someone getting away with just a prison sentence if they killed a family member or yours? Criminals like this deserve nothing but a healthy dose of lethal injection. The death penalty should remain legal in all fifty states because criminals who commit severe crimes deserve to die, families of victims will see justice, and prison overcrowding will become less of a problem.
             Criminals who commit severe crimes deserve to die. Not only should murderers be sent to death row but also most accounts of rape and treason should be treated with the same conditions. If someone had raped and beat children they do not deserve to live. "In 1998, there were 93,000 rapes, fewer than 50 percent of which were solved, according to the FBI" (Klug). The federal government can also enforce capital punishment for certain crimes like treason, killing a government official, large drug operations and kidnapping resulting in death (History). Seth Privacky, an eighteen-year-old boy in Muskegon County, murdered his whole family and is currently serving life without parole in prison. Many other people loved his family members and are mourning because of there tragic loss.


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