Jenna Diasselliss
English 101 - Section 5
10 April 2006
Death Penalty
Should the punishment always fit the crime? If you are convicted of murder in any degree, yes. One form of punishment that I support fully, especially in murder trials and convictions, is the death penalty. When you commit a crime like murder, you should have to pay the consequences. When Scott Peterson was on trial for the murder of his wife and unborn child, the prosecution asked for the death penalty if convicted. Some people may have thought it unjust, but when you look at the fact that he killed a woman who was eight months pregnant with his child, the death penalty, in my opinion, was completely within reason to ask for. I do support the death penalty, but I understand that people are sometimes wrongly convicted of a crime. I also understand that its hard for the family of someone who received capital punishment to cope with the fact that their loved one did not commit the crime that they were......
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