Why Is Capital Punishment Wrong

Throughout life there are always mistakes and misbehaviors that affect others. Even in our youth, there has always been punishments for mistakes, failed tasks, and flat out misbehaving. Although there is always the issue of punishing too harshly, this applies to our Federal System today. When people are innocently murdered, or ruthlessly battered many feel the punishment and or Jail Time is too little, which in some incidences are very true. There are plenty of mass murderers or serial killers that aren't given the appropriate sentence in prison or they're sentenced to minimum security prisons that, by any means, isn't fit. The death penalty has been used less than "two thousand times within the years, although there has been over forty thousand …show more content…
The convict stated that he did this in his attempt to, "Stop the spreading of HIV/AIDS", www.theranker.com. The convict was given a sentence of eight years with the chance of parole, which he received after serving as little as five years. Can you believe that? As a citizen of the United States you can see this psychotic and classified "insane" man casually walking down your street with the same freedom we all have. In this circumstance, the death penalty was warranted simply because it was simply just not enough to be a reasonable punishment for this mass murders. The murderer also had no remorse for the families, friends, and associates he had affected by killing these innocent women. Along with the fact he was sentenced to a minimal security prison where he was granted a two-hour lunch and outside privileges. For those who still can't paint a picture of a "minimal security prison" it’s simple, its where all the small, miniscule criminals are sent to. For example, if someone is caught stealing socks for the local thrift store and is sent to jail he or she will be sent there. Its alarming that the exact same person can be sharing a cell with a murderer who may even be sentenced for a shorter time then the thieves themselves. Some can even be expected to be paired with people such as Genene Jones. The babysitter would give the children that were under her care pediatric drugs and force an overdose. The children would die under the care of their parent's hours later. She was charged with over twenty deaths of children under the age of

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