how many murders occur every year. In this country it takes 11 years to pull the switch on a convicted murderer...an innocent person can be executed...at the rate of 15,000 a year in America. People for the Death Penalty show cases of murder and complain about how long it takes to finally right the wrong. Extreme cases of brutality to children and a prolonged litigation incite anger. A 2 1/2-year-old girl was kidnapped, raped, sodomized, tortured and mutilated with vise grips over six hours. Then she was strangled to death. Her assailant, Theodore Frank, according to court records and his own admissions, had already molested more than 100 children during a 20-year period. Because we are told he admitted everything, people are even more angered when they find it has taken 23 years for Franks case to travel through the courts . This type of case, is not even arguing points about the Death Penalty, it just makes people worry that there are murders going on all the time and the people who are committing the crime are taking forever to be punished, ignoring the fact that the person is sitting in a jail cell during the whole proceedings. [T]he law demands punishment regardless of the one who has been wronged... the law of the land permits no option because it is the community as a whole that has been violated. Death Penalty proponents argument against the protests that innocent people are being executed is a laudable reversal. Death penalty proponents will say No one who genuinely worries about the legal system putting innocent people at risk can afford to waste time denouncing the death penalty. Not when probation and parole are costing so many Americans their lives. In one 17-month period, the US Department of Justice calculated in 1995, criminals released "under supervision" committed 13,200 murders. Now the Death penalty proponents are on familiar territory. They are able to, once again, remind us that when killers arent kil...
