Advocating the Death Penalty

Advocating the Death Penalty Thousands of people will attack the death penalty. They will give emotional speeches about the one innocent man or woman who might accidentally get an execution sentence. However, all of these people are forgetting one crucial element. They are forgetting the thousands of victims who die every year by the hands of heartless murderers. There are more murderers out there than people who are wrongly convicted, and that is what we …

…there is no punishment that can entirely eliminate violent crime, a more stringent use of the death penalty would significantly help. The United States must allow history to repeat itself and through more severe use of the death penalty, curtail violent crimes within society. Bibliography Work Cited Kaplan, David. “Anger and Ambivalence.” Newsweek, 7 August 1995. 24-29 Pro Death Penalty. http://members.tripod.com/prodeath/pdp.html. 1998 Stewart, David. “Dealing With the Death Penalty.” ABA Journal 80. 1994: 50-53.