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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....

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