Back to the times of Hammurabi people have wanted “an eye for an eye.” I believe that this is still the case today. If a human being kills another human being, shouldn’t they have to suffer a similar fate? Maybe not in a cruel and inhumane way, but in a way that is practical to today’s standards and cost effective.
Many people believe that the monsters that have killed so many are able to be rehabilitated. To these gullible people I give you this. A study from April of 2014 conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics Following Prison Releases From Three to Five Years showed that sixty-eight percent of 405,000 prisoners released in thirty states were arrested for a new crime within the first three years of being released. It also showed that seventy- seven percent of the 405,000 were arrested within the first five years of being released. With people just turning around after being released and committing another crime; are we really going to believe that they can really be rehabilitated? So many prisoners that are released will just fall back into a recidivist state. With people just freely
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A study by professors at Emory University concluded that each execution resulted in the deterrence of up to eighteen murders nationwide. The same professors from Emory University also concluded that for every 3 years cut from a prisoner's time on death row, another murder would be prevented. This study shows that if we cut the perpetrator's time on death row, more crimes would be stopped and the homicide rate in the United States would drop drastically. It just makes sense that if possible future murders would not commit the crime because they do not want to get put on death row and die, and this fear would be even greater if the sentence on death row was shorter and if there were more executions per