Argumentative Essay: Keeping The Death Penalty

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Would you like to live next to a murderer, terrorist, or even a rapist? Keeping the death penalty for certain crimes will keep America safer, it will give closure to families and victims, and is better than keeping criminals in prison. Some people think that the death penalty should be abolished and let the evildoers live. I think that the death penalty should be allowed for certain crimes. I think the death penalty should keep the death penalty because it will get rid of evil doers, is better than keeping criminals in prison, and give justice to the families and victims.

First of all, according to various news sources such as the “New Republic” keeping prisoners on death sentence is better than keeping prisoners in prison without parole.
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For example,”I can’t see my son at all no more.I can’t see him grow old, they took all that from me so I feel that their life needs to be ended,”- Pam Bosley. Her son was killed outside a church in 2006 and she can’t get justice because the death penalty was abolished in Illinois. This is why we should keep the death penalty, to give closure to the families of the victims whose loved ones have died. I feel like this only proves more that the death penalty should stay, not only to keep America safe, but to give to give justice to victims of murder and rape. Finally i think that we must keep the death penalty , not only to give closure to victims of murder and rape, but also keep America safe.

Some people think that the death penalty should be abolished because it’s inhumane. Many people, including myself and the Supreme Court, that the death penalty should stay,”The U.S Supreme Court today cleared the way for executions to resume when it ruled that the lethal injection procedure used in Kentucky does not violate the constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment,”Quote.This proves my point because even the Supreme Court agrees and lets Kentucky use lethal injections.Finally I’m correct because when we keep the death penalty it will reduce the evil doers in the