Capital Punishment - The Death Penalty

DEATH PENALTY          Is the death penalty just? Politicians, lobbyists, philosophers, and experts from all walks of life continuously debate this controversial subject. Has any one of these individuals listened to the rest of us? The answer in many cases is no.         The United States is a democracy of embodied officials, who represent the people, their wishes, beliefs and ideals. That means, through elections, we decide what policies are to be enacted. In the case of …

…use to support their life in prison can be spent on preventing our next generation from doing the same.         We, the people, feel we should be heard. We fully realize how precious life is and understand it's wrong to kill, but obviously some just don't care. With the death penalty in place, and integrated into our legal system, individuals who are convicted of murder have willingly accepted their fate and should be dealt with accordingly.