Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment
Murder is a very serious crime that affects everyone whether it is emotionally, mentally, or physically. Nowadays terrible crimes such as murders are happening everyday. Many people believe that the people that commit these horrific crimes should be sentenced to death. Capital punishment, the death penalty, is the maximum sentence is used as a form of punishment to the people that commit murders. The death penalty is a very controversial issue that many people are for, yet many are also against.
Capital punishment is an action courts take to punish criminals that murder. In the United States capital punishment is legal in thirty-nine of the fifty states. Starting in 1973, prison populations began to dramatically increase. There were 204,211 inmates in 1973, and by 1977 the number of prisoners had grown to 285,456, which later grew to 315,974 in 1980. By 1976, it was clear that the death penalty was needed. America’s twenty-one year experiment with capi...