Capital Punishment: For

Capital Punishment: For


     The Debate over the merits of capital punishment has endured for years, and

continues to be an extremely indecisive and complicated issue. Adversaries of

capital punishment point to the Marshalls and the Millgards, while proponents

point to the Dahmers and Gacys. Society must be kept safe from the monstrous

barbaric acts of these individuals and other killers, by taking away their lives

to function and perform in our society. At the same time, we must insure that

innocent people such as Marshall and Millgard are never convicted or sentenced

to death for a crime that they did not commit.

     Many contend that the use of capital punishment as a form of deterrence

does not work, as there are no fewer murders on a per-capita basis in countries

or states that do have it, then those that do not. In order for capital

punishment to work as a deterrence, certain events must be present in the

criminal's mind prior to committing the offence. The criminal must be aware that

others have been punished in the past for the offence that he or she is planning,

and that what happened to another individual who committed this offence, can

also happen to me.

     But individuals who commit any types of crime ranging from auto theft to

1st-Degree Murder, never take into account the consequences of their actions.

Deterrence to crime, is rooted in the individuals themselves. Every human has a

personal set of conduct. How much they will and will not tolerate. How far they

will and will not go. This personal set of conduct can be made or be broken by

friends, influences, family, home, life, etc. An individual who is never taught

some sort of restraint as a child, will probably never understand any limit as

to what they can do, until they have learned it themselves. Therefore, capital

punishment will never truly work as a deterrent, because of human nature to

ignore practised advice and to self learn.

     There are those who claim that capital punishment is in itself a form of

vengeance on the killer. But isn't locking up a human being behind steel bars

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