Should Mass Murderers Receive Death Penalty?

In a poll taken by Debate.org on whether a mass murderer should receive the death penalty or not, 50% verbalized yes and the other 44% verbally expressed no. According to Jack Levin, a professor of Sociology with Northeastern University, now virtually 80% of Americans favor the death penalty. Since the colonial times, more than 15,000 American citizens have been executed since the inception of the death penalty (American Civil Liberties Amalgamation-ACLU). According to the ACLU, the United States is the only Western democracy that opts not to notice capital penalization as a terrible human rights infringement. They go on to state their credence as this being “a frightening abuse of government power” (ACLU). In the state of Massachusetts, there …show more content…
However, the federal government does prosecute the capital cases in the state of Massachusetts, and have enforced the death penalty many times within the mentioned state (NODP.org). It is a terrible financial burden to society to incarcerate a mass murderer for a extenuating long period of time. Some express that the capital murderer should be institutionalized and go through a rehabilitation program. This is okay, depending on the nature of the malefaction. Charles Manson had received the death penalty, but due to the United States striking down capital punishment in 1972, because of it being applied in an inhumane manner, Charles Manson then became eligible for parole after serving only seven years (Levin). Manson is remembered from his terrible slaying of Sharon Tate and other Hollywood citizens. Due to the horrible way he committed these murders, Manson has been depicted as the “embodiment of evil” (Levin). Therefore, taking the abolitionist stance, it truely depends on the nature of the malefaction and the alternative. If the only alternative answer for a brutal, terrible murder is life confinement with the possibility of parole, then yes I would be in favor of the death