Capital_Punishment

Capital Punishment Capital Punishment Capital punishment has been a mainstay of many cultures throughout the world dating back several hundred years because it is an effective punishment and deterrent. Every individual must be accountable and every attempt at dissuading reoccurrences of violent crimes must be taken. When we have the means to incapacitate violent offenders and deter future murders, to not avail ourselves of the option to do so would be negligent. Incapacitation is the most clear cut advantage to capital punishment. Certainly, when a criminal is executed he poses no further threat to society, including other inmates and correction officials. Execution of death row inmates also alleviates burdens to the taxpayers in the forms of food, housing, and frivolous lawsuits that plague the justice system. Less clear are the benefits of deterrence on future murders and violent crimes. Statistics from the Bureau of Justice show that while fewer inmates were executed in 2003 than in the last seven years, violent crimes in states with capital punishment versus states without are relatively the same. (Bureau) The poet Hyman Barshay said “The death penalty is a warning, just like a lighthouse throwing its beams out to sea. We hear about the shipwrecks, violent, capital, punishment, death, crimes, penalty, federal, out, one, murder, justice, states, public, offenses, murders, lighthouse, inmates, future, even, cannot, benefits, being, without, way, van, tragedy, taken, specific, sin, ships, retribution, religious, offense, new, life