Should the United States continue using the death penalty? The death penalty is the execution of a person by the judicial process as a punishment for an offense which is a capital crime or offense ("For and Against"). Many Americans have been known to describe the death penalty as torture and unethical, a lack of morality, or would describe the inmates as "people" who has made a mistake, just as we are. Truth be told, these inmates that has been sentenced to death row are people who deserves it. The death penalty should be used! It 's been proven to be painless, and seen as justice given to the victim and its family.
The death penalty has many views of whether or not it 's painless. There are different methods of execution and yes, some methods …show more content…
Life behind bars is not justice served. Yes, the inmates will die in prison eventually, but it 's not paying the same price. These inmates have the privilege of dying on their own terms, meaning through their survival of prison the inmates live a full life, it may not the most luxury life, but they are living and it still goes to show no justice has been served. Some may say, living in a "cage" their whole life seems to be far more punishment than being put to death immediately, but that cant be proven because inmates tend to adapt to the prison life. It becomes their lifestyle, three meals a day, television time, and even having a social life. The inmates can get advantages from good behavior, their family still have the opportunity to come visit (Hess, "Weighing the death penalty.."), But the victims family have to visit their lost loved one at a graveyard. Death better serves the inmates, it takes the life of them as they have taken the life of another, seeing an "eye for an eye." Also keeping inmates in prison for life can become a hassle and is just as expensive as the death penalty. As in California, the Supreme Court recently [seen] it 's prison overcrowded by 300,000 people (Hess," Weighing the death penalty..") Today, one in eleven prisoners are serving a life sentence, and one third of those inmates will never be eligible for
The death penalty has many views of whether or not it 's painless. There are different methods of execution and yes, some methods …show more content…
Life behind bars is not justice served. Yes, the inmates will die in prison eventually, but it 's not paying the same price. These inmates have the privilege of dying on their own terms, meaning through their survival of prison the inmates live a full life, it may not the most luxury life, but they are living and it still goes to show no justice has been served. Some may say, living in a "cage" their whole life seems to be far more punishment than being put to death immediately, but that cant be proven because inmates tend to adapt to the prison life. It becomes their lifestyle, three meals a day, television time, and even having a social life. The inmates can get advantages from good behavior, their family still have the opportunity to come visit (Hess, "Weighing the death penalty.."), But the victims family have to visit their lost loved one at a graveyard. Death better serves the inmates, it takes the life of them as they have taken the life of another, seeing an "eye for an eye." Also keeping inmates in prison for life can become a hassle and is just as expensive as the death penalty. As in California, the Supreme Court recently [seen] it 's prison overcrowded by 300,000 people (Hess," Weighing the death penalty..") Today, one in eleven prisoners are serving a life sentence, and one third of those inmates will never be eligible for