Through our past, vast number of people have been murdered, or brutally harmed. It seems as though for every one good person in society, there are two evil. Crime rates are rising and jails are filling out by the dozens. Because of this, I strongly believe in initiating the death penalty and having it legalized in the United States. This is for a variety of reasons:

1) People that murder others or commit a horrendous act in crime should not be given the gift of life, especially if they are using it to ruin the lives of others

2) Millions of our tax money are going to creating and maintaining these jails and prisons, in which our hard earned money is going to sustain the lives of those who are the last people to deserve it, when it could be going to making the society a better place for the rest of us.

3) There is no pleasure of life by spending the rest of your life in prison by yourself anyway, it’d be much more beneficial for us and the culprit to go about with the death sentence and move on with life that way.

However, this blog, Abolish the Death Penalty shows otherwise. In this particular piece, the author wrote about an article that described about how a judge overturned a case that happened in 1944 of a 14-year-old boy who had received a death sentence. His claim with this article is that had we not had a death sentence that kid “could have been a father or someone beneficial to society”. However, even if the death sentence wasn’t a thing back then and that boy had to be in prison for life, he would still be dead by now as this had occurred 70 YEARS ago. Why they even brought this case back up is beyond me, but I find it absolutely ridiculous to use this example as a claim for not legalizing the death penalty, as this kid would be dead plus the nation would be a million or so poorer maintaining this person. Even if was alive the state would have had to give him another million or more for their in correction, causing us to pay that much more.

The one thing I would agree to is that in order for us to utilize this, we have to be 100 percent sure that the criminal is guilty for their acts of crime. Also this means that racism (if present) have to minimized greatly as well, and our court system will have to be sharper in order to promote justice. That being said, I feel that the death penalty will not only save the nation millions, it will also create a stronger force of justice, and by removing these horrendous people from our society, our nation will benefit through a multitude of ways.