ry became soIndifferent to the increase in violence. The age of violent offenders is getting younger and younger. The government needs to start holding people accountable for their actions.We need to start setting an example that murders will not be tolerated and if someone wants to murder they need to know that is not acceptable. O.J. Simpson is a perfect example that says crime does pay. If you have enough money, you can get out of anything.I think adopting capital punishment in all fifty states would have universal appeal. If we were to adopt The Georgia sentencing law which narrows the class of murders subject to capital punishment by specifying 10 statuary aggravating circumstance are of which must be found by the jury to exist beyond a doubt before a death sentence. If there are safeguards in place to prevent abuse I feel it would have universal appeal. Society has had enough of people getting away with murder. O.J. Simpson over exposure from immediately following the crime, to the long drawn out court trial. He basically laughedAt our justice system. This should not be acceptable. If you commit murder then be executed.Opponents to the death penalty will disagree with my views on the death penalty. The Thorsten Sellin studies conducted in the United States during 1962, 1967, and 1980 concluded that the death penalty had no deterrent effect. The British Royal CommissionOn Capital punishment analyzed statistics from seven European and non-European countries reporting that no evidence linked abolition of the death penalty to increased homicide rates. Some researchers have found that the death penalty not only fails to reduce murder rates, but may also increase the number of homicides. (www.amnesty-usa.org).The United States Bowers-Pierce study, analyzing executions between 1907 and 1963 concluded that an average of two additional murders were committed in the month after an execution. Also society noted that as of July...
