Capital punishment, death penalty or execution is punishment by death. The sentence is referred to as a death sentence. If elected into the presidential position this year I vow to have capital punishment allowed in all fifty states. The theory of “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” is the strongest argument of capital punishment. When a criminal does an act to fulfill his selfish motives resulting into personal gains then the equilibrium of justice in society is disturbed. To maintain this equilibrium the criminal should be punished with the same intensity of punishment no matter what. If the criminal can dare to snatch away liberty, peace, and lives from any individual, then the justice says that he should also be deprived of all these facilities leading to a
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Some of these people go days without food, warmth, or water, while meantime prisoners are given all of the above. We are practically paying for the health and well-being of someone who is just going to rot away in a cell. It costs anywhere from $20,000 to $40,000 a year to house an inmate. This digit includes the 3 meals served, and medical attention for a healthy inmate. This cost goes up if an inmate needs special needs like those of a mental institution. This is thousands of dollars thrown away to people who have no chance of ever getting out of jail or have parole chances. By performing the death penalty to those who are deserving (life sentences with no parole) we could literally save almost 100% of this hard earned money and spend it elsewhere. How do we do this you say? Well the average cost to house an inmate in the US is $31,786 while the average cost for a lethal injection is just $86.08! By using the execution method, there are less people behind bars being paid for out of our own money. This means more money going towards what we really want. This also would help with the over population in the prisons. Thus allowing us to move inmates around regularly and close some of the prisons
Some of these people go days without food, warmth, or water, while meantime prisoners are given all of the above. We are practically paying for the health and well-being of someone who is just going to rot away in a cell. It costs anywhere from $20,000 to $40,000 a year to house an inmate. This digit includes the 3 meals served, and medical attention for a healthy inmate. This cost goes up if an inmate needs special needs like those of a mental institution. This is thousands of dollars thrown away to people who have no chance of ever getting out of jail or have parole chances. By performing the death penalty to those who are deserving (life sentences with no parole) we could literally save almost 100% of this hard earned money and spend it elsewhere. How do we do this you say? Well the average cost to house an inmate in the US is $31,786 while the average cost for a lethal injection is just $86.08! By using the execution method, there are less people behind bars being paid for out of our own money. This means more money going towards what we really want. This also would help with the over population in the prisons. Thus allowing us to move inmates around regularly and close some of the prisons