Death penalty

The Death penalty is a highly controversial topic. Both sides have valid points, This blog is on my personal belief and anyone has their right to agree or disagree with my opinion, but i also have my right to my opinion.
In my opinion the death penalty has its usefulness in the justice system. The death penalty has been around as long as there has been societies of people. I don't agree with people who say that the death penalty is inhumane when it has always been a way of keeping justice in societies. In present times, yes, there are other options to punish criminals, but it has not always been that way. Throughout history, the death penalty has been the one thing that is agreed upon in every justice system. If we had never had the death penalty, our lives would be way different then they currently are, most people do not understand how much we have relied on the death penalty over the years. I know that people will argue that it is a worse punishment to have criminals live in prisons for the rest of their lives, with the guilt of the crimes they committed, but there are criminals who do not have the capability to see the wrongs in their actions, nor do they regret their actions in any way, sometimes leaving criminals alive is actually what they want. When you give up the death penalty, not only are you losing money in the long run, between the cost of the facility, and maintenance, the cost of feeding the prisoners and the medication that some of them have to take, but you are also keeping them in the public eye. If criminals, killers especially, are left in prisons, the general public continues to talk about them, which gives them the publicity they desire. It also gives them a chance to continue their plans, some criminals are masterminds and can continue doing criminal acts from inside prison walls. One other thing to think about is that there is always a chance that they get approved for parole, now in some cases, this will result in the criminal acts continuing after a short break of them being in prison. I do know that in some cases the death penalty is inhumane, but with the changes in how the death penalty is sentenced, to whom, the circumstances and the way the it is given to the criminal, the death penalty is not as nearly inhumane as it use to be.



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