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While we experience many freedoms, one of those is not taking the life of another person. There must be retribution and many believe that the punishment should fir the crime.
The benefits of the death penalty are great. Perhaps the greatest argument in its favor is the fact that it is the greatest deterrent on earth. Life in prison is simply not enough these days with prison life often being better than what some indigent, innocent people experience on the outside. Those guilty of murder should not be afforded three meals a day, health insurance, or shelter from the weather. Not in a prison paid for by tax dollars....
To expect tax-paying citizens to pay to keep a murderer alive is ridiculous but it is done every day. In a day when the country's deficit is greater than it has ever been, those tax dollars could be put to better use. If capital punishment were enforced in every state, the problem of prison overcrowding would be alleviated.
The death penalty may seem harsh at first, but it is a punishment that fits the crime of those who willingly choose to take the life of another. Life is the most precious thing human beings have. Without it, there is nothing. For another person to take that right from another individual is unconscionable and should be met with fast and appropriate measures. Criminals do not deserve to live in overcrowded prisons receiving health benefits that many honest, hard-working, law-abiding Americans citizens do not have. The cost of keeping criminals alive is ridiculous considering the current state of the economy. More than ever, the death penalty should be embraced for the tool of deterrence and retribution it is.
Work Cited
Berns, Walter. "For Capital Punishment." White, James. Contemporary Moral Problems. New York: West Publishing Company.…
Work Cited
Berns, Walter. "For Capital Punishment." White, James. Contemporary Moral Problems. New York: West Publishing Company. 1991.
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