The first ever execution was dated all the way back to the sixteen hundreds. Capital Punishment is a touchy subject to many people in the world because it is one of the toughest situations to be made. It can sentence a person to death for a crime that has been committed. Many people find the death penalty difficult because some people say it is killing a person unfairly. They are scared that an innocent person who did not really commit the crime could be sentenced to death. Other people say that after the killer has committed such a huge crime of killing a person, that the killer deserves the death penalty. There cannot be a killer roaming around just killing people. The death penalty helps the rate of murders decrease because it makes the
Jeff Jacoby, a globe columnist, believes that if the death penalty is enforced that there will be a less murder rate. Jacoby wrote a story about two people from different places met each other playing an online game and started to date for a few months, they then broke up. The guy, Dmitry Smirnov, was upset that the girl, Jitka Vesel, would not talk to him, so he started thinking about killing her (Jacoby). He then shot her and an email was found where he has asked someone if the death penalty was legal in Chicago. Therefore, it shows that he questioned if the death penalty was legal in Chicago, where he was not from before he murdered someone. Jeff Jacoby states, " If murder is being disciplined by doing nothing but prison then criminals will want to continue to commit the crime." Margaret Daly in the article was arrested for attacking a man, she cut him (Jacoby). Daly told the police that she should have done better at stabbing him and just kill him, but she knew the death penalty was legal and did not want to die. Also, Orelius Matthew Steward in Jacoby's article was arrested and put in prison for robbing a bank. He said, that he thought about killing the officer that shot him, but did not want to get the death penalty. Steward did not want the gas chamber. It all comes down to how a criminal does not just go in and commit the crime, they think about it hard before doing