Pros And Cons Of The Death Penalty

Serious Crimes Should Lead to Execution

Do you think that murders, rapists, and other criminals that commit severe crimes deserve more than just life in prison without parole? These criminals that are murders, rapists and other dangerous criminals deserve more than just life in prison without parole. They deserve to be sentenced to death row. These criminals have caused pain and suffering for human beings. These criminals deserve the death penalty. These kinds of criminals are capable of harming individuals, if they have committed the crime once, who is to say that they won’t do it again? The death penalty would assure that these criminals couldn’t harm another individual, and would give these criminals what they deserve for what they have

63 percent of Americans are for the death penalty for convicted murderers, and other severe crimes. The death penalty is favored more than life in prison without parole. Out of 10 Americans, six of them support the death penalty. Over time, the support of Americans have went back and forth but the death penalty is still in favor. The death penalty was used again in the late 1970s after new laws came into effect. However, for Democrats’ their support has dropped drastically for the death penalty, from 75 percent to 49 percent, in just 20 years. Some Democrats are separated on if convicted murders should face the death penalty or not. It’s not just the Democrats that their support is being reduced, its also Republicans’ and independents’. However, Republicans’ and Independents’ still support the death penalty, their numbers are just dropping, it’s not changing their minds about the death penalty. In 2014, stats show that 49 Democrats and 76 Republicans favor the death penalty. Those that oppose the death penalty are 46 Democrats and 22 Republicans. Then you have the Independents, 62 of them are for it and 32 are against it. Democrats however, are on the same percentage for the death penalty and life imprisonment. Just because they have the same beliefs for imprisonment for life and the death penalty, does not mean that they prefer one more than the other. In 2014, Independents and Republicans the percentage for the death penalty outnumbered the percentage of the Democrats. The death penalty percentage is still higher than the imprisonment without parole percentage. In recent decades, the death penalty is a way to show how the Democrats and Republicans are different in a few ways. Some support the death penalty more than others but the death penalty still has support favoring it. However, Democrats are the reason behind the drop of the death penalty. Now, if you see the stats of who favors the death penalty