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Death Penalty

 

            
             Death sentences save innocent lives by permanently preventing murderers from killing again. People who commit violent crimes will kill again if given the opportunity. The death penalty remains the only effective way of preventing murderers from re-committing their crimes. A life imprisonment sentence still allows murderers to kill in prison. This includes innocent people as well as other criminals. A death sentence also provides justice for victimized families. The death sentence enables family members to obtain closure after these traumatizing experiences.
             Some prisoners when paroled kill again. Eddie Wein was sentenced to death in a Los Angeles court in 1957 and released in 1975. Months later Wein attacked several women and killed one. The police recaptured Wein in 1976 and convicted him of first-degree murder and several sexual offenses. The women attacked by Wein, and the family of the murder victim, experienced unnecessary pain and agony. If Wein would have been executed as originally planned, it would have saved an innocent life and the grief for family members. Which happens more often: A killer who repents his wrongs and lives a virtuous life or a killer who decides to cross the line again between right and wrong?.
             Several statistics provide proof that this is not an isolated incident. These occurrences happen all the time in every State. In Georgia, out of 164 convicted murderers, eight committed murder again within seven years. A study in Oregon found five percent of killers repeated homicide within five years of release. Between 1965 and 1974, out of 11,404 people released after being convicted of homicide, 34 people were returned during the first year for willfully killing again. These killers do not account for the most dangerous capital murders. Of the 52,000 criminals serving time in 1984, 810 of them had previously been convicted of murder. These statistics only represent a fraction of reoccurring offenses that criminals commit after being released from prison.


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