Capital Punishment

In today’s world, terrible crimes are being committed daily. Many believe that these criminals deserve one fate “Death.” The capital punishment is undeniably one of the most controversial issues today. The capital punishment along with all other forms of criminal punishment is barbaric. Capital punishment helps to lower the murder rate in US. The death penalty deters murder by putting the fear of death into would be killers. America’s method of capital punishment has been reduced from several extremely painful execution methods to quick and less painful methods. There are five method of execution: lethal injection, electrocution, gas chamber, firing squad shootings and one of the oldest methods of execution that is still used in some states is hanging. Capital punishment is the maximum sentence and very controversial method of punishment used in punishing people who kill another human being. The capital punishment is a necessary evil that has a positive effect on society today.

Some murderers are imprisoned, released, and able to murder again. Imprisonment is not as effective as capital punishment in the modern world. Capital punishment could help to alleviate the taxpayers from the costs of feeding and housing criminals. It is costly to support a hard criminal in the prison for their whole life sentence. This could be long like twenty five years or more. In the prison, criminals have weight rooms, some even have gym to work out and socialize with other inmates. Taxpayers are not only paying for gym but also paying for food to eat, clothes and beds for them to sleep. Prisoners get better life in prison than outside because they are able to eat and live off the money of taxpayer’s state wide, rather than carrying out a sentence of capital punishment. Thousands of prisoners are every year back on the street due to lack of room and funds.

Fewer Americans can remember the days when unlocked doors were the norm and murder was a rare and terrible offense. In America the murder rate climbed 122 percent between 1963 and 1980, during that same period, the murder rate in New York City increased by almost 400 percent. American city ran a greater risk of being murdered than an American soldier in World War ran of being killed in combat. 75% of America’s populations support death penalty and 25% people either have problem with the method of execution in death penalty or consider that an innocent person might be executed by mistake. Some people even take the neutral position because they think death cannot bring the murdered person back by taking the prisoner’s life. Each opinion on capital punishment is valid in its own way.

There are several factors to consider when making decision on whether capital punishment is right or wrong. If felons are faced with death as a punishment of their crimes, they may be deterred from