Death Penalty

       

  Should the death penalty be opposed? Today a lot of people consider the death penalty to be the last alternative instead, favor life in prison from past years of innocent people getting the death penalty when they shouldn't have. Going into a Pro and Con debate in class about whether or not the death penalty should be used or not is very controversial in the world today. There are many reasons to go back and forth considering giving the death penalty to the criminal or not. When it comes to the victims family it's very hard for them to recover from a loss of a loved one. Usually a victim's family will want to give the death penalty to the criminal to give closure to the family. If the criminal is sent to prison they are still alive to haunt the victim as well as the family. The death penalty should best be relevant to fit the crime of what they did to the victim. The criminals deserve a punishment that is equal to what they did. If the criminal had murdered an innocent person than they earn to get murdered as well to feel the pain the victim did when s/he was punished. After reading The Laramie Project the death penalty was not given to Aaron McKinney because of Matthew Shepard's mother's reasoning for letting Aaron have life in prison instead. That reason being was to let Aaron think about what he did to Matthew and to be grateful that Aaron can celebrate the things that Matthew could never celebrate again. Having the death penalty as an option for criminals who have murdered people in the past is a good alternative to have because of the families that have to deal with the pain of losing their family members. 

          There are many reasons why people in the world dislike the death penalty which is a good thing for the criminal but bad for the victim and for their families and friends. Some think it isn't fair to have the death penalty happen when a criminal has murdered a person instead thinking it's better to keep them in prison for life. The truth is, is the longer the criminal is alive and in prison the more awful and depressing their lives will be. When it comes the day where the criminals die they will be going to another prison which is hell. If they get the death penalty their lives on earth are fast and painless but by them having life in prison will give them longer pain than getting the death penalty. It's useless to give the death penalty to the people who had murdered others because it doesn't change the fact that the victim is gone and never to come back. Through all the anger and sorrow from the family and friends of the victims the only thing they can do is to forgive the criminal for doing such a horrible thing and move on with their lives. Whether or not the death penalty happens to criminals that have murdered another person at the end of the day they are going to live the rest of their lives in hell. If the death penalty is sentenced to a criminal they have a faster painful death than those who have to live a slow brutal life in prison.