Pros And Cons Of The Death Penalty

“In the the 18th century over 200 crimes were punishable by death in Britain that included stealing, cutting down trees, and counterfeiting tax stam” (Staff). “The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Wilkerson v.Utah that firing squad should be the death penalty” (Staff). If we brought back the death penalty, there will be less murders because the killers will fear the capital punishment. “Oklahoma is the first state to do lethal injection as an execution” (Staff). “The U.S. Supreme Court also ruled that Florida's system for death penalty is not right because it gives too much power to judges and not enough to juries” (Staff). A guy met a woman and they dated for several weeks but then she dumped him and he learned that the state got rid of the death penalty so he got a gun and killed her, if the state kept the capital punishment the girl would still be alive and he would not be sitting in jail for the rest of his life.

“ Marshall McComb plumped the files for the Los Angeles Police Department to see if it had an effect on the death penalty on the thinking of the criminals. Mccomb listed examples of murders not committed because a would-be-killer did not want to risk capital punishment”(Jacoby). a person killed his girlfriend that dumped him only after learning that the state abolished the death penalty so when the police got him he said “I will just spend the rest of his life in prison”(Jacoby). If the death penalty was on the books and was enforced the girlfriend could still be alive;therefore, less murders going