et off the hook for murdering her two innocent children. How could they possibly let her off? They (The Jury) only explained that she would suffer more through her depression, but does that justify the short-lived lives of two completely harmless, defenseless and innocent children. If we give up our punishing of deadly criminals then could throw our social atmosphere through a violent loop of chaos. In todays society the idea of having deadly criminals: sentenced to life in prison, get paroled and then go back into society and strike again is absolutely frightening. Another thing that has become a threat in todays society is the fact that we have slacked up on the punishment of our criminals. Its hard to believe that today everyone has the exact same rights, whether you have been convicted of mass murder or are just a regular Joe off the streets. When you are willing to go against the specific laws of our society morally and physically you should be stripped of nearly all your rights. In the late 1950s on any one given day there were two-hundred prisoners awaiting their executions, says Hugo Becker of Tufts University, Massachusetts. Most anti-capital punishment activist will argue that the death penalty is gruesome. Yet nearly all forms of capital punishment, whether it be lethal injection, electrocution, firing squad, the gas chamber or by hanging is in many peoples opinions equally as painfully even slightly less painful than rotting away in your jail cell for the rest of your life on this earth. So for those who say we are playing God when we kill someone, they need to realize that either way we choose how this person dies. Through all controversies including cost (see chart #1) and deterrence through executions. We as a society will always have crime, because there is no such Utopia otherwise. Unlike the many cases where convicted felons have bee prosecuted and paroled, and murderers have murdered again, executions we will ultimate...
