“Johnny Kormondy and two other men killed McAdams with a gunshot to the back of his head during the home-invasion robbery and raped McAdams' wife, Cecilia McAdams, repeatedly (Gardner).” Johnny was executed on January 15, 2015, and justice was served to the rest of The McAdams family. The death penalty is a good way to give families closure, cut down taxes, and the punishment fits the crime. Now in 2015, the death penalty is by lethal injection, no longer the electric chair, gas chamber, hanging, and firing squad.
The death penalty gives families closure by making them feel safe again. The victim no longer has to worry about the criminal invading their life or their family's life anymore and making them constantly feel worried. If someone kills another human being, they have “taken the life of another, have forfeited their own right to live.” In more serious crimes, the person who commits the crime is usually sent to jail. The victim's family feels traumatized knowing that the perpetrator is still alive and still a danger to society.
Cuts on taxes is a reasoning for executing someone who committed a capital crime rather than the criminal sit in a prison cell and still receiving our tax money. Housing bad guys in jail is a waste of government money. Sentencing the perpetrator to death saves …show more content…
The criminal should receive some pain in return for what they have done to others. Even if the death penalty was put to a stop because of the “pain” the criminals receive, other inmates in the prison would give them “what they deserve” for the crime they committed once they find out what they have done. People in prison still have morals, and if an inmate found out that another inmate killed a child and they had a son or daughter, they might get mad and beat him up, stab him,
The death penalty gives families closure by making them feel safe again. The victim no longer has to worry about the criminal invading their life or their family's life anymore and making them constantly feel worried. If someone kills another human being, they have “taken the life of another, have forfeited their own right to live.” In more serious crimes, the person who commits the crime is usually sent to jail. The victim's family feels traumatized knowing that the perpetrator is still alive and still a danger to society.
Cuts on taxes is a reasoning for executing someone who committed a capital crime rather than the criminal sit in a prison cell and still receiving our tax money. Housing bad guys in jail is a waste of government money. Sentencing the perpetrator to death saves …show more content…
The criminal should receive some pain in return for what they have done to others. Even if the death penalty was put to a stop because of the “pain” the criminals receive, other inmates in the prison would give them “what they deserve” for the crime they committed once they find out what they have done. People in prison still have morals, and if an inmate found out that another inmate killed a child and they had a son or daughter, they might get mad and beat him up, stab him,