Death Penalty
While you are sleeping, at 3:00 in the morning, your house is broken into. The violators find your daughter, viciously rape and murder her, as they hold you back making you helpless, and there is nothing you can do about it. Would you want capitol punishment for these violators, or just another slap on the wrist? One lady in California said "I want them to pay." Just a few months after this, this very thing happened to her.
The Death Penalty is one of the most controversial laws in the United States today. Rather it should be carried out or not is the question, and no matter what is said, shouts come from extremists on both sides of the issue.
Many extremists on the opposite side of the issue say that there is an extreme cost in caring out the death penalty. When in actuality, yes there is. But that cost does not even compare to the thousands of dollars spent caring for an inmate in a prison, each year.
The "Wrong Man" argument is most likely......
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