Should the Death Penalty be allowed? The death penalty is a painless action by lethally injecting a person govern for the purposes of euthanasia or as a means of capital punishment. The death penalty should be allowed in all states because it punishes criminals the way they should be, it costs a lot of money to house prisoners, and it deters the criminals from committing more of those crimes. There are many people who don't get punished the way they should for the disheartening crimes that they commit. Many criminals that have committed crimes such as murder, child abuse, and/or sexual abuse, etc., have life sentences and sit in their cells, take up space, and use our tax dollars to be housed. Yes, prison is a hellish place and it’s somewhere …show more content…
Not just that but jails in the United States are overcrowding with criminals and making it hard to find room for them. There is a way to stop overfilling our jails and waisting our taxes and that reason is called the death penalty. Criminals are filling the jails and one day there will be to many people in jail that we don't have anywhere to put these criminals. Across the country, police are being laid off, prisoners are being released early, the courts are clogged, and crime continues to rise. (Richard C. DieterIf) Criminals around the country are getting released our of prisons early because the rate of crimes are rising and the jails are overflowing with new criminals each day and have no where to put them. If the criminals keep getting released early, their mindset would to think that if they got out early once, might as well do it again. They will commit more crimes, whether it be a new one or the same as the last. The point is is that the criminals will not learn from their mistakes and will keep repeating them knowing the consequence wont be that harsh. If the death penalty were to be put in tact, one, there would be more room for the criminals in their housing and we wouldn't have to keep releasing them. And two, the criminals wont have a necessarily chance to keep making the same mistakes because they are either sentenced …show more content…
If people heard that the death penalty were to be instated, then they would be terrified to commit a crime worthy if the death penalty, because they would be scared to lose their lives. Not that people wont still those commit crimes. They will, but the percentage of them will decrease. A 2003 and 2006 study that re-examined the data of crime rates, found that each execution results in five fewer homicides. (Mocan) What that is saying is that by one person being executed, there are five murders that aren't happening anymore. People are now fearful to lose their one lives so now they aren't ruining other peoples. The death penalty may take away lives of those who aren't worthy of one, but in the end, it actually saves