The Death Penalty Is A Sensitive Subject

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The death penalty is a sentence applied judiciary that consists of legally withdrawing the life of a person who has committed or is suspected of having committed a crime that it is considered by the power sufficiently serious and cruel to be punished with death.
Death penalty is a sensitive subject. But in my opinion it is the only rational way of dealing with a capital crime. Many argue that this form of punishment is cruel. That a savage should pay for his or her crimes by staying in jail for the rest of their lives, since according to the people who are against capital punishment staying in jail for life is worst than dying; Since having three meals a day, a bed, a library, a TV room, no bills or taxes to pay, getting an education, not having to go to work, is definitely better than death! These individuals kill, rape, torture, rob and traffic. Then once they get caught they get to eat food at our expense, at the expenses of someone who cant even afford their own meal, who’s conditions are deprived but yet we are the ones funding them. If a criminal murdered a 15 year old, took her rights, her opportunities to get an education and her right to live why would society want to give this person his rights? The same rights he took from someone else? When people think of capital punishment they think of a hypothesis, of an untrue scenario, and that is why they are against this punishment, but if they were to think that the 15 year old girl was a daughter to someone? a sister?

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