Do you think that the United States of America should allow the death penalty to be used as a form of punishment? Today many politicians argue whether the death penalty should be allowed in the United States. Both of the debating sides have many supporters. Some people say that prison is a better punishment because the prisoners would stay in prison for the rest of their lives with no freedom to do anything there. Others say that the death penalty is the best answer to murder. The current number of Death Row inmates is the United States is three thousand thirty five, and all of them, sooner or later will be killed unless, if there is evidence in their innocents. The death penalty could also decrease the crime rate in the United States. Many people say that more colored people are in prisons than white people. They say that the judges are being racist because they put more blacks into prison than whites. The death penalty should be allowed in the United States.
The death penalty should be allowed in the United States as a form of punishment for criminals. The death penalty acts as a deterrent for other people and prisoners. If the death penalty were to be abolished then the crime rate in the United States would rise.“I believe that more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.” (Nancy Reagan) When Nancy Reagan said this she meant that the crime rate will go down and less people would be killed. There are many criminals that are not afraid to repeat their crimes over and over again because they know that they will only be imprisoned. These kind of people and those who can not be rehabilitated should be put to death. “I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate.”(Jack Kevorkian) Here he says that many people believe that if someone committed a serious crime they should be put to death. If there would have ...