Murders Must Pay
Running head: Murders Must Pay
Murders Must Pay
Chase Waterstradt
Introduction to Criminal Justice Section 001
Criminals on death row should be executed, because their constitutional right of no cruel and unusual punishment should be considered invalid. One might ask why, because in committing their crime they violated the constitutional rights of the victim. So why should the criminals' constitutional rights supersede the victims'. Many people in the United States believe it is wrong to execute criminals for several different reasons. Their reasons for not supporting the death penalty include a convicted person may still be innocent, it's racist, and it does not deter people from committing capital offense crimes. In my opinion, there is a small chance of error but if the public really knew how executions were carried out in the chambers of death it would generate fear or at a minimum a thought before committing a capital offense.
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