Pros And Cons Of Abolishing The Death Penalty

I rise today to speak with grave concern about the aspects of the United States death penalty. There are five different forms of execution in the United States: hanging, electrocution, lethal injection, lethal gas, and firing squad. I believe that all of these should be legal in order to sustain justice. “If we show mercy to the guilty, we are only showing cruelty to the innocent.” Why should we abolish the death penalty if someone harms or kills another person? Doesn’t justice demand that the killer loses his life? He should expect that hasn’t been the case.

In 2008, Jodi Arias killed her boy-friend, Travis Alexander, but Arias claimed it was self-defense. Travis suffered nearly 30 knife wounds, had his throat slit and was shot in the head.

They are even given short sentences for violent crimes, and after a short sentence, they are released, free to pursue their violent obsessions on the sanity of the human race. There is no cure. People who commit a violent crime will do it over and over again, no matter if/how you medicate or treat them. If you give a pedophile or a murderer medication, they will find other ways to commit these awful acts. If you cut off the hands of a thief, they will steal again. There is no permanent cure for them. We are born sinners; Beautiful but broken, sinful people, doomed to do evil things. We, “the sane”, are their victims. We, “the sane”, are targets. We, “the sane”, are the only ones who can stop them; “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth;” In this case, a life for a life. For this reason we must use the death penalty on all violent criminals, murderers, pedophiles, rapists, and sadists. “But if a man meets a young woman, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die. But you shall do nothing to the young woman; she has committed no offense punishable by

It was argued that death simply does not teach a lesson to criminals and that it is inhumane. It is also argued that the death penalty is not fair for criminals to die quick, no matter what they did and that the criminals should just be punished. Some also argue that Illinois should have abolished the death penalty anyways because using violence on violent criminals is contradictory in terms. Killing criminals doesn't solve the problem; it just makes those in the justice system heavy handed, but if a criminal has performed a nefarious, violent action and is proven guilty, then there is no use spending precious resources to keep him alive. Society needs protection from him, not for him. Without the death penalty, someone can kill 3 people or even 50 people like the Colorado shooting for instance. Still the worse that happens to them is life in prison. That isn’t