FREE ESSAY ON DEATH PENALTY

DEATH PENALTY

Chad Heldt
Sociology
Period 1
4/28/98
The Death Penalty
Should It Be Allowed Or Not?
In my paper I plan to give my opinion and my position on the death penalty. I believe the
death penalty should be for hardened criminals like the Charlie Mansons of the world and
people like that. I believe that our judicial system right now is clogged with to many
cases pending the death penalty in America. These people should not be allowed such
luxuries in prison such as TV, good food, and the ability to get out on parole and the
chance for we, the public, to see him/her kill or do it again. It is just not right to
the judicial system and us, we pay the taxes so they can appeal and live the good life
and that is not how it should be. I believe strongly that inmates should have to suffer
just as their victims did when their life was cut short. I think that they should be
publicly humiliated before they are put to there demise.
The prisoners should not be put on trial six times for the same crime if they are found
guilty the first time. This puts a strain on our economy when we have to try the same
case more than once. We end up spending in the end around 3.2 million dollars on one
execution and why? Because our society is to involved in making a good image for it self
so it forgets about what the right thing to do is. We just go on and on with the trials
and the appeals and never really get anywhere. The inmates are allowed to appeal so many
times that they will die by the time they are finally sentenced to death so what's the
point of spending all that money we might as well let them go free.
I wish society could be the same as it was about 150 years ago when you were punished
right away for what you did there was no mercy. The people had one chance to say what
they wanted and most of the time it had no effect on the trial or sometime they had no
chance to speak there mind they were just sentenced to death. People take our society for
granted and we should not allow ourselves to believe those foul criminals and to feel
sorry for them either.
Overall, I am strongly for the death penalty and I hope that they can bring it to
Minnesota some day. It would untie our court system and it would make a safer society for
our children and there children. We also would save money not for the government and
ourselves but for our children and there children.