Persuasive Essay Pro Death Penalty

A great man by the name of Blaise Pascal once said, “Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.” Meaning that if the government is just going to have rules but not enforce them, there is no point, and if there is punishment with no justness behind it, there is going to be a harsh world. A just society requires the death penalty for the taking of a life. With that being said, my stand is to legalize the death penalty in attempt to decrease and or prevent heinous crimes, to decrease the costs of housing inmates with long sentences, and execution also provides a sense of closure for the families of victims of violent crimes. Don’t you think these depraved people need to be punished somehow?
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As a rule, citizens in the U.S. are spending copious amounts of money to pay for those in prison with lifetime sentences. Yes, trials take a while and cost money, but it’s not like an individual is going to be on death row for 50 plus years (Death Penalty Information Center, 2013). In Texas, in 2012, the amount spent on the death penalty per capita is 1.2 million dollars. In 2012, there were only 17 inmates in Texas on death row. On average, in 2012, the amount spent on 1 inmate per night is $47.50, which totals up to 693,500 per year (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2011). In 2012 there were a total of 398 prisoners serving a life sentence without parole. When all the costs are added up, $276,013,000 is spent on prisoners every year (Death Penalty Information Center, 2003). The death penalty is much
As a rule, the family had no way of stopping the gruesome attack when it happened. When the murderer is finally put to death, the family may feel a little more at ease. On December 3, 1982 Becky Marrero was murdered by Gary Ridgway, a.k.a “The Green River Killer.” At that time, Ridgway had already killed 48 other people, Marrero was victim number 49. In 2011, Becky Marrero’s sister Mary decided to explain how she felt. With tears in her eyes, her words were, “"I don't know what you have to do in the State of Washington to get the death penalty, he needs to go to death row. He knows he got away with 49 murders." Ridgway took Mary’s one and only sister, and Mary feels the only way to get even is for him to have the death penalty (Michigan State University, 2004). Now imagine if you had a sister or a brother, or even a mom who was murdered gruesomely and the only thing the murder got was 48 life sentences. How would you feel? A man like that doesn’t deserve the option to