18th Century Capital Punishment

On a cool April day in 2013, the 117th annual Boston Marathon was drawing to a close and spectators waited for their loved ones to finish. Meanwhile, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev planted two bombs at the finish line which would give everyone there a finish no one would have expected. At approximately 2:49 that afternoon, the beautiful sunny day was turned into a nightmare for the thousands of spectators when the two bombs, filled with shrapnel, went off within seconds of each other resulting in three deaths and an estimated 264 injuries. While one of the terrorists died in the manhunt that followed, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger brother, was caught and sentenced to death and people still are saying that he

The punishment for the worst of the worst, capital punishment has been around since the first death penalty laws of King Hammaurabi of Babylon in the 18th century B.C. (Society's Final Solution) Throughout its existence; there have been many methods on how to kill someone for their crimes. For example, in the 10th century A.D., hanging was the go to method in many countries especially Britain. As society became more modern and technology advanced so did the methods of execution; hanging led to firing squads which advanced into lethal gas then electrocution, and finally today’s method, lethal injection. While many say lethal injection is inhumane and cruel, these critics are incorrect; with the right chemicals lethal injection is painless and the inmate dies within minutes of injection. Along with the painlessness of proper lethal injection, the inmate also does not have to go through the 50 or so years in prison where he is subject to abuse by other inmates and the mental effects of being in that prison for all those

The country is in a situation like many of its citizens, it needs money and its leaders are constantly just throwing it away. They preach that crime is wrong and that the felons need to pay for their crimes, but in reality it is the innocent citizens who are paying for that murdering rapist’s T.V., comfortable living, activity center, and library. The leaders in this country have gotten it in their heads that the people that they represent should have to pay for the criminals to live comfortably due to the fact that they believe corporal punishment is ineffective and wrong. The leaders would rather make taxpayers pay $34,200 (Sharp, D.) a year to hold criminals for 50 years or so compared to $60,000 (Sharp, D.) a year to hold them for 6 years. The math speaks for itself; many people who are anti-death penalty say that life in prison is more “cost effective” but they only compare the first years. If one holds criminal “A” , who is guilty of rape and murder for say, 50 years, he will cost the country 1.7 million dollars; whereas if he is put to death after 6 years of holding him, he will cost the taxpayers a total of $360,000(Sharp, D.). These numbers clearly show that the death penalty is more cost effective. If the country stops spending 1.7 million to hold prisoner “A” for 50 years, then that money could be used for green energy or