Pain. Anger. Frustration. Hatred. These feeble words do not describe the anguish felt by the families of murder victims. Ted Bundy was responsible for the deaths of more than 50 young women across the United States (Lamar, 34). Bundy was finally sentenced to death by the state of Florida in 1978 for the kidnapping and brutal murder of a 12-year-old girl and the deaths of 2 Florida State sorority sisters (Lamar, 34). As if the loss of a loved one is not enough for a family to contend with, Bundy remained on death row for nearly 10 years. Three stays of execution and endless appeals kept Bundy alive for almost a decade, when his victims lives were untimely and viciously taken from them (Lamar, 34). If a sentence of death is handed down, then it should be enforced, not as a question of morality, but simply as an act of justice.
The moral issue of whether the death penalty is right or wrong and its constitutionality, is beyond this argument. The death penalty already exists in 36......
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