Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, William Bonin...all these men have something in common: they were sentenced to death. In the United States, capital punishment is legal in 32 states, but is it necessary?Obviously, a person who is in jail for stealing or drug dealing does not deserve the death penalty, but a person who has killed another (or more) for fun or for any other reason, he deserves. This also would make the crime decrease due to subsequent punishment.
As I see it, guilty people deserve to be punished in proportion to the severity of the crime, and in the case of murderers, they deserve the death. Many people fear these murderers to leak or to repeat their actions, so they support the death penalty. Furthermore, there is no risk of convicting an innocent person because of the existence of legal guarantees, for example, appeals. The death penalty is, in economic terms, more cost-effective than the alternatives.
To summarize, the death penalty is a punishment that deserve only those who have killed and that has been banned in many places and been replaced by an equivalent alternative. Any punishment is a good way of doing justice. Obviously, one can be more accurate than the other ethically speaking, or more economically viable.
- BBC, The. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/capitalpunishment/for_1.shtml.
- Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_United_States.
- Kevin Flanagan, ''Against the death penalty''. https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~marto/adpp/flanagan.htm.
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