THE OPPOSITE EFFECT
Sean McCauley correctly asserts that the death penalty has the potential to deter violent criminals.
However, capital punishment in America is not a bloody spectacle in the town square, but a relatively calm medical procedure behind closed doors.
Factor in the decades of waiting that a condemned man spends on death row, and it is unlikely that any criminal will even consider this punishment before committing murder.
The death penalty in America strikes fear into nobody. It is infinitely softened, except for one fact: we’re still killing people. David McDevitt
Undergraduate THE IRONY…
?”By enforcing the death penalty, society is upholding the sanctity and beauty of all human life.” You know, except for the person being put to death.
Alex Ferri
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