Death Penalty (oscar)

    Does the death penalty help prevent crime in our country? The death penalty will help prevent less crimes in our country. Because lets say you go and rob a bank and you don’t get away with it and you get captured, you will face the death penalty. And the next person who decides to do the same crime or a different crime will maybe think twice before making any actions. But in the other hand I don’t think the death penalty will make a difference because a criminal will not care about other peoples life. Eventually he/she wont care about their own life. So it wouldn’t make a difference if you are a cold blooded person. The families of the victims should not be allowed to administer the death pentalty because that would make them also a criminal.  They would have in their conscience knowing that by their decision they have caused the death of a person.  I don’t believe that the family would jump up and down with joy after seeing the person that victimized their family put to death. Families of victims know that taking the life of the criminal is not giving back their loved one. Only one more family will suffer. In addition the criminal has to pay while he is alive, for example serving at prison. I know that some families prefer the death penalty, but they still will feel some guilt in supporting the killing of a person, even if that person was a criminal.