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Death Penalty

Lethal injection has become the preferred method of execution in the United States since the early 80’s. But is lethal injection a harsh enough penalty for murder? The answer is no, it is not a good enough punishment for someone who has taken the life of another. Lethal injection is a process that allows a convict to be put down quickly and painlessly, but what happened to the older methods? Methods such as hanging, electrocution, and firing squads are not used in a large scale these days. These methods are the kind that makes the offender miserable for the last moments of their life; these are the methods I think that should be used today. I am going to argue that the life in prison is not enough, the death penalty should be worse than what it is, and public executions have a greater deterrent effect.
There are a lot of families that want more justice to the person who killed a family member then life imprisonment and that is just what they should get. For a family who...

Posted by: Chad Boger

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