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The Death Penalty


             Person one: "I have murdered my wife because she burnt my eggs and forgot to toast the bread. I picked her up threw her against the wall then shot her in the heart. Afterwards I took a shower and went to work. Should I be killed?".
             Person two: "I have killed a total of six people on the night of September second. I was on my way to a party but went to the wrong house by mistake. A lady answered the door and told me that I was and idiot because the house number was clearly written on the mailbox. That made me really mad so I took my knife and sliced her throat. I was about to leave, but her two year old son saw me so I had to kill him as well. He screamed and the four other kids in the house came running to see what was going on, so the suffered they same fate. Then I buried their bodies in a shallow grave in the backyard, found the right house and partied the rest of the night. Should I be killed?.
             Which one of those people should get the death penalty or "capital punishment" as some people call it? Even though the statements written above aren't real, who should die? Who should have their life taken away? Whose family will loose a member? And who will never have to think about what they have done again. .
             In the United States a person convicted of a capital crime will get the capital punishment (the death penalty). The methods used to kill a sometimes innocent person is electrocution, hanging, shooting, lethal gas and an injection with a lethal drugs. So what happens after a person dies? Both families, the victims and the accused, grieve their losses, and eventually move on with their lives. It does seem like an okay system but why can't the accused spend their life in prison without the possibility of parole? That time in prison could be spent thinking about what they had done, thinking about other ways those situations could have been handled. Then hopefully talking to others that could potentially be in the same situation or are on the track to doing what they did.


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