ly deter crime. Has there ever in the history of the United States been a case where an executed man has murder again...Didnt think so (see chart #2). But, will it deter the public from committing these same crimes? Since the 19th Century, we do not have public executions. These executions used to be a public event. This to some people was dishonorably and crude, yet these people got to see first hand what was going to happen to them if they committed a crime of that nature. Today you rarely hear of such executions let alone see them. The only executions we see are on the news, at such events like Columbine, Colorado. This mass execution was not put on by the legal system, yet only by two young boys out for vengeance. Some people will also argue that the capital punishment system is such an uncivilized harsh way of treating these criminals, but can you take a look at them and tell everyone that they themselves are acting civilizedcertainly not! These criminals can not expect to be treated civilized when they have not acted civilly themselves. With that, consider the old saying, treat other how you want to be treated. These criminals are the ones whom turn our nation into an uncivilized one; they themselves are the most uncivilized human beings on the earth. If anything is to be said it would have to be that the death penalty is not enough. It can never bring back the many loved ones to the families that have lost them. If we can not join together in crime and its prevention, it will most certainly defeat us (as a nation). We can no longer sit back and passively watch as our communities are being destroyed. There must be a line drawn in crime. When people say it is retributive justice to take the life in turn for the taking of another life, it could be said that a criminal could not learn a lesson since he dies as an immediate result of his punishment. Yet the only true way to pay for a violent crime is through death. We live in a societ...
