capital punishment

The penal system of America needs to be reformed, as it stands now one in every 32 Americans are in some phase of the correction system (Loven A4). The current system is failing for many reasons. In my short paper I would like to explore three of them. The first, prisons as they are run now cost too much money. The second problem when someone is punished with a prison sentence now, it not only hurts them it hurts there family as well. Thirdly a sentence in a modern prison fails to achieve its primary goal rehabilitation, I will argue the only change one receives upon release of prison is negative. My paper will look at the effectiveness of pain as a punishment for a crime. I will propose that instead of prison sentences for most crimes, we should punish a criminal act with a sentence of so many electrical shocks.

What Exactly is the Proposal?
I propose that we need to instill pain in anyone who commits a criminal act. This pain should deter future criminal acts. At f...