I Believe in Capital Punishment and I Know Why.
Since 1977 more than 700 people have been executed in the US. All those deaths were important to the well being of the US. Among those terminated were some of the worst that society has to offer. They were murderers, rapists, and serial killers; some were just sadists, others were just maniacs, but they were all justly killed. Immanuel Kant once said:.
What kind and what degree of punishment does public justice take as its principle and norm? None other than the principle of equality in the movement of the pointer of the scale of justice, the principle of not inclining to one side more than to the other. Thus any undeserved evil which you do to someone else among the people is an evil done to yourself. If you rob him, you rob yourself; if you slander him, you slander yourself; if you strike him, you strike yourself; and if you kill him, you kill yourself (qtd. in The Death Penalty: For and Against 1).
But, capital punishment isn't some great evil that will damn the all who believe in it. The use of it isn't a barbaric way of the past or something that should be stopped as our next step in evolution. It is the most intellectual course of action for certain problems.
Many people in the US believe the death penalty is destroying the sanctity of the US, or that it is an overly cruel punishment. They believe that without the death penalty, America would become a more perfect place. They believe that "The death penalty cannot be useful because of the example of barbarity it gives to men "(Pojman, Louis p.29). Somehow in these people's minds Capital punishment is worse than the violence on TV, that the death penalty has a very negative effect on society. They should be shown the truth of the matter; that the death penalty does more than they think it does, and that their lives might be better if the death penalty was used more often. .
An increase in the use of the death penalty can save people hundreds of dollars every year.