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Capital Punishment: For - School Essays

Capital Punishment: For

Have you been wondering where all our tax dollars are going to these days?
A large amount of it is going towards maintaining murderers, rapists and thieves,
and for what reason, to live the good life? The average prisoner costs the
federal government one hundred and fifty dollars a day which amounts to fifty-
three thousand four hundred dollars a year. Now, ask yourself this question, Is
it worth all this money to keep these savage criminals in jail? Do you really
want these brutal criminals after release from prison roaming freely in our
streets near our homes? The ultimate answer to these questions is only too
evident, we must control the situation, we need to enforce an ...

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are disturbing and uncomfortable, but so are their crimes. There is
no hope for criminals with this kind of behavior and mentality. I believe that
capital punishment is the key necessity.

If capital punishment was enforced for severe crimes, it would eliminate a
fair amount of tax money going towards the judiciary system. If a prison were
to maintain a deadly criminal sentenced for life starting at the age of thirty
and living to seventy, it would cost tax payers an unbelievable amount of two
million one hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars. It is hard to believe but
it is true, and imagine, if that is the cost of just one criminal, imagine the
astronomical amount of five hundred criminals each costing that amount of
money... something must be done. Capital punishment would eliminate those
figures and leave you and me a whole lot happier.

When a murderer kills a person and goes to court, he expects to get around
thirty to fifty years in jail, and if he behaves ...

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Added: 12/24/2004 05:26:16 AM
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