Back to category: Novels Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. Alfred Hitchcock In order keep its people’s faith, it is crucial for a government to ensure that justice is sustained. This will ensure that people feel security and righteousness in their society. A major element of this justice is often deemed too harsh: the death penalty, the extreme punishment. However, many feel that the death penalty is the appropriate sentence for the most dangerous of criminals. A criminal who has been a complete menace to society deserves to be punished according to the extremity of his crime. A rapist, murderer, or one who has committed treason, may have been such an encumbrance on the rest of society that it would unfair to the victims of their crimes to keep them alive. Oftentimes, the criminal does not deserve to live if the crime they committed is so horrible. A prime example is the case of Timothy McVeigh, a man who had bombed a government building in Oklahoma City, killing hundreds and injuring countless more — not only physically but mentally as well.... Posted by: Veronica Gardner Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. |
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