I believe that the practice of the death penalty should be continued and is an effective method of dealing with criminals. The death penalty is effective because people fear death. Criminals don’t plead for the death penalty, they plead for life in prison. This demonstrates that they do not want to die. They would rather live a nonchalant prison life that could prove to be not so bad. Also some people deserve to die. Crimes such as rape, malicious murder, and abduction and torture deserve a punishment more serious than a prison sentence. A final reason for the implementation of the death penalty is that it prevents criminals from escaping or communicating to the outside world; that could result in more deaths. Their absence from society could save more lives. Some people are just safer postmortem. It is nonsense to believe that a life in prison sentence could be a greater punishment than death. From all these examples I can conclude that the death penalty is both an effective method if deterring crime and also to prevent criminals from further harming society.
Hey, Theo. First off, it's cool to see you incorporating one of the things (the very very few things) we talked about in Sociology this year. I can't say I necessarily agree with your stance, though! After all, even though most people plead for a life in prison, how easy of nonchalant really is that life, do you think? The documentary we watched in class made it seem pretty volatile to me, but I can see why you might still see death as a harsher punishment.
I have to say, though, you do seem to have very strongly formulated your opinion. It's not an easy thing to be able to say whether or not a person deserves to die, whatever the crime was. So while I'm not sure whether or not I agree with you on that, you do make a valid point in that a dead criminal (a serial rapist, let's say) is much safer to society than one with the option of getting out on parole. I've gotta say, you make a very divisive argument.