The Death Penalty: Justified for Limited Reasons
Capital Punishment is considered to be a controversial topic in the United States and will continue to be for many years. Surely some states do not agree with the death penalty, but there are certain types of murderers who should receive capital punishment. The death of numerous people at once or a killer who murders a large number of people at different times are considered to be heinous and should receive capital punishment. Murders involving a child or an elder is certainly not right either. Indisputably, the death penalty is only warranted for limited reasons such as mass murderers, serial killers, and the killers of children and the elderly. The first type of murderer who deserves to be on death row is the killer of numerous people all at one time. It is hard to fathom that such a person would do something so terrible to innocent lives. Edward Koch, former mayor of New York, states, “when we protect guilty lives, we give up innocent lives in exchange” (487). Koch’s point could not be more true because, if we fail to put someone on death row for mass murder the we do not avenge the innocent lives that were taken. If I were related to one of the victims of a mass …show more content…
Surely other murderers in different situations deserve only life imprisonment. Opponents say that every life is valued, but no life of a mass murderer should be valued. Additionally, a murderer of children and the elderly who is mentally ill, deserves no special treatment. Furthermore, the death penalty is not costly when compared to the costs of the life imprisonment that these murderers would have if the death penalty is not enforced. If the death penalty is warranted for these certain types of murderers, then the United States would be safer environment for everyone to live
Capital Punishment is considered to be a controversial topic in the United States and will continue to be for many years. Surely some states do not agree with the death penalty, but there are certain types of murderers who should receive capital punishment. The death of numerous people at once or a killer who murders a large number of people at different times are considered to be heinous and should receive capital punishment. Murders involving a child or an elder is certainly not right either. Indisputably, the death penalty is only warranted for limited reasons such as mass murderers, serial killers, and the killers of children and the elderly. The first type of murderer who deserves to be on death row is the killer of numerous people all at one time. It is hard to fathom that such a person would do something so terrible to innocent lives. Edward Koch, former mayor of New York, states, “when we protect guilty lives, we give up innocent lives in exchange” (487). Koch’s point could not be more true because, if we fail to put someone on death row for mass murder the we do not avenge the innocent lives that were taken. If I were related to one of the victims of a mass …show more content…
Surely other murderers in different situations deserve only life imprisonment. Opponents say that every life is valued, but no life of a mass murderer should be valued. Additionally, a murderer of children and the elderly who is mentally ill, deserves no special treatment. Furthermore, the death penalty is not costly when compared to the costs of the life imprisonment that these murderers would have if the death penalty is not enforced. If the death penalty is warranted for these certain types of murderers, then the United States would be safer environment for everyone to live