“good ol’ days of capital punishment” you were found guilty of a crime, then you were sentenced to die, then you were executed. (Not even enough time to show the judge that the bloody glove really does fit, and yet you say it doesn’t.) Criminals feared this day in their careers. Nowadays it takes some fifteen years and millions of dollars to have a trial, have more trials, convict him, sentence him to die, then only give him a life sentence, then let him go in twenty years for good behavior and hope he doesn’t kill again. Criminals do not fear this. They know they can get off easy and only rot in jail for a few years and they’re right back out. Back to the example of the mother and her children: If the mother does not punish her child right away in front of the others then the punishment does no good. The child forgets the bad thing he did and will probably end up doing it again.To try to support my point I gave a survey to three teachers at DeLaSalle High School. Unfortunately the survey turned on me. All of the participants had the opposite opinion of mine. They all agreed that capital punishment is not a successful deterrent to crime. They argued that it depends on the crime, and that criminals believe it won’t happen to them. One topic that there was disagreement on was that of being able to sentence someone to die. One person had a strongly “no” because they don’t believe in “eye for eye” justice. Another person said it depends on the reason and leaned towards punishing someone to death but the other person summed up his answer the best: “We sentence soldiers to die for the sake of their society in war time, to protect their society. Why can’t society sentence offenders to die to protect itself?” Basically saying we sentence soldiers to die to improve our society.The Roman Catholic Church has multiple opinions on killing and ...
