fails to do that, it becomes of littleuse to its citizens. When a society ignores their moral duty to defend thesafety and security of their citizens and leaves them at the mercy of violentcriminals, they are negligent. I am certain that there will come a time whenall the nations in the world will be forced to agree after decades of experienceon this issue, that capital punishment, like the military and the police forceand taxes, is an inevitable and unavoidable consequence of every civilizedsociety and it will no longer be a question of whether or not a nation shouldhave the death penalty, but rather how it should be used. While I believe thatprompt and consistent executions would have a deterrent effect, there remainsone great virtue, even as infrequent as executions. The recidivism rate forcapital punishment is zero. No executed murderer has ever killed again. Youcan’t say that about those sentenced to prison, even if you are an abolitionist.Bibliography:Bronwyn Calton, ed. “The Big Book of Death” New York: Paradox Press,1996Joel Rose, ed. “The Big Book of Thugs” New York: Paradox Press, 1996JoAnn Brenn Gurensey, “Should We Have Capital Punishment?” Minnesota:Lerner Publications Company,1993Carol Wekesser, ed. “The Death Penalty (Opposing Viewpoints,)” California:Greenhaven Press, Inc.,1991Don Nardo, “Death Penalty” California: Lucent Books, 1992Thurgood Marshall, “Social Ethics: Morality and Social Policy” UnitedStates: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.,1997“Capital Punishment”, http://ethics.acusd.edu/mill.htmlU.S. Department of Justice Press Release, Sunday December 13, 1998http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/press/cp.97.pr...
