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Date Submitted: 02/11/2016 02:25 AM
Is Capital Punishment the correct sentence for a murderer? I will be
discussing in my essay whether Capital Punishment should stay
abolished or be reintroduced after 38 years since the punishment was
banned.
Capital punishment is a form of taking someone's life in order to
repay for the crime that they have committed. There are many different
methods of doing this, for example a few of them are such things as
The Electric Chair, Hanging, Stretching, Stoning.
Since 1965 people have been saying that Capital Punishment should be
reintroduced. I will be stating most of the reasons these people give
in the next few paragraphs. One of these reasons is the fact that
prisons are getting overcrowded in England. There are over two
thousand convicted persons serving life sentences in our prisons
today, therefore if we were to reintroduce Capital Punishment we could
resolve these problems by sentencing the people who would at present
be sent to prison for life to the death penalty as a punishment for
doing wrong.
Another common point that is made is that with so many people in our
prisons it actually costs us money due to taxing. And as I said before
prisons are overcrowded plus every person serving a life sentence
costs £400-£1000 each per week depending on the amount of security
that they need and this is coming out of money that we work hard for.
So without all those criminals we would be living better lives due to
the fact that we would have more money.
In addition to that the public would feel a lot safer as well as the
Police Force because the criminals would no longer be around to take
our money or kill us for not doing anything wrong. At the moment we
are very unsafe because even the Police can't handle them and we know
this due to the fact that each year approximately 15,000 Police
Officers are assaulted and over 40 Police Officers have been killed
since they abolished Capital Punishment does that say...