Capital Punishment
How can people say that capital punishment doesn’t deter crime? Well, I suppose it’s because we do have capital punishment but we DON’T USE IT, hence it’s not a real deterrent. But trust me, take 50 death row inmates a day, kill them and continue for a month…it would become a deterrent, and quickly.
The prison system is out of control…inmates get college degrees, pump iron all day long, rape other inmates, congregate in the exercise yard, rape other inmates (this happens a lot), sell dope, take dope…what the hell, I thought they were in PRISON. Doesn’t being in prison mean you’ve been convicted of a crime and you’re being punished?
It costs us a fortune to keep someone in prison…so if you’re on death row, you’ve pretty much exhausted several appeals, have been convicted of a serious crime(s), and most likely will be appealing until your last breath. And that last breath may not come for years and years and may come as a result of old age the way our capital punishment system works.
I know there are a few (maybe even many) that are incarcerated unjustly…but given the numbers and the fact that most prisoners are repeat offenders…we must do something to get the message across that you can’t continue a lifestyle of disregard for others because you know that you won’t really be punished. You will go to prison, but still most likely you won’t ever be rehabilitated. I’m speaking of hardened criminals, repeat offenders…the scourge of the earth. You don’t get on death row for a simple minor crime. Enough is enough.
We have the death penalty and I think we should USE IT. You start depleting the death row inmate numbers and crime will go down…and certainly those that have been executed won’t be committing any more crimes…that’s a deterrent.
And further…how about this…you get to die the same way your victim did - shot, stabbed, tortured, raped, mutilated, whatever.