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Hello, I'm a female 17 years old and a JR. in High school. Also I'm from Pennsylvania,& that will help with my question.
Sometime last week I was assigned to write a Persuasive Essay, since I have one of the higher grades in class the teacher thought it would be appropriate that I tackle a harder issue to discuss, which lead her to assign me the Death Penalty.
I need some reasons why people support the death penalty and the reasons why they support it. I have a few reasons picked out but I would like to see if there are better reasons out there and see what other people's thoughts are.
Also, please don't answer this if you disagree with it. (link)
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The death penalty is supported because it cuts down on the amount of harmful people in the world.If someone does something very wrong(such as killing another person)and they end up getting caught-you take their life so that there's one less murderer that we have to deal with.
From another stand point(in the case of murder)it could be seen as a more "he did this,so we're going to do it back" type of thing.Think Hamurabi's code of laws.
Penalty of death could be used as an example to showcase what happens when you do a certain crime so that people know that they shouldn't do it.
Some people could believe that life in prison is just stupid.You figure that they're going to end up dying locked up in a cage anyways,so why not just kill them and get it over with?
Finally,some people just flat out think that it's the only way to punish someone for what they've done.They don't feel like jail is good enough punishment,so they kill them.
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thank you very much you are a great help!
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