The Pros And Cons Of The Death Penalty

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Evan Deason
Mrs. Tollett
Honors 10th Lit.
10 April 2017

People always want to say that the death penalty is horrible and that it will bring down society in some way or form, but it is not. The death penalty is needed in society today as it is put in place to attempt to decrease crime rates, Even if the ways it does it are not the best.
People always argue that the death penalty is bad for morale, but the only reason people think that is because the people who go against the death penalty spread lies that the death penalty is a random lottery, which it is not, it is only reserved for the worst of crimes like planning to kill someone or murdering a police officer on duty or killing multiple people (The Pros and Cons of the death penalty). …show more content…

Is that very fair to the starving person? That a criminal who murdered three people gets to live a comfortable life, not having to worry about trying to survive. Because without the death penalty the criminal who committed a deadly crime they still get to live a comfortable life with just some of their freedom taken away.

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