Capital Punishment
...as the restoration of capital punishment. What is capital punishment some of you may be thinking? Capital punishment also known as the death penalty is the execution of a person by the state as punishment for the crime, some forms of fatal punishment are the electric chair, the guillotine and the lethal injection
Historically, the execution of criminals and political opponents was used by nearly all societies, both to punish crime and to suppress political dissent. In most places, the death penalty is reserved as punishment for capital crimes such as premeditated murder, espionage, treason, or as part of military justice.
Recently capital punishment has become a world wide debatable issue, my organization, many others and I believe that the necessities of capital punishment need to be introduced again. Why you may ask? Capital punishment permanently removes the worst criminals from society and should prove much cheaper and safer for the rest of us than long term or permanent imprisonment. It is self evident that dead criminals cannot commit any further crimes, either within prison or after escaping or being released from it.
Firstly, Capital punishment is very effective and is capable of reducing the amount of serious crimes being caused; the most striking protection of innocent life has been seen in Texas, which executes more murderers than any other state. According to JFA, the Texas murder rate in 1991 was 15.3 per 100,000. By 1999, it had fallen to 6.1 -- a drop of 60 percent. This is evident proof that capital punishment does have an effect to reduce more then 50 percent of the crimes.
Secondly, Execution is a very real punishment rather than some form of “rehabilitative” treatment, the criminal is made to suffer in proportion to the offence. In 1962, a convicted criminal, James Moore raped and strangled a 14-year-old innocent girl. Her parents...
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