A few girls on my floor have been discussing one of their projects for one of their classes. Their project was to debate whether or not the United States should allow the death penalty or not. On the floor a couple of us discussed our opinions about whether or not we should have the death penalty. Personally, I think that some people do things that are so tremendously disgusting that they do not deserve to continue their lives. I don’t like to think that someone who has taken someone’s life away will be living their live longer than their victim. Even if their life is behind bars, I still think that is giving them more than they deserve. For example, someone like Susan Smith or Shanquan Duley (both of which killed their own children) does not deserve to carry on their lives. I think that allowing people who commit selfish acts of murder to continue living is a waste. They are one person taking up oxygen, food, resources and that could be used for someone more deserving. There are so many people in our world that try to make good decisions and better their lives as well as others. I don’t think that people who take lives away in such horrible ways deserve to share our world. I also think that one of the main reasons to leave someone in prison for the rest of their life is to make them suffer. However, I don’t think that making them suffer will make us feel any better. Also, I don’t think a lot of the murders end up thinking about what they did and realizing that what they did was awful. After all, how many times do you hear about convicted murders proclaiming their innocence and trying to fight their way out? I just think that letting some people continue living when have done such terrible and unspeakable things is not fair to anyone. They are someone consuming resources when really they have no right to consume those resources after what they did.
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