Joe Atkins's Argument Against The Death Penalty

Killing a Delinquent
Joe Atkins, who lived with his father, was said to be angry with his next-door neighbors for an unknown reason. In October 27,1985, Atkins got drunk and broke into his neighbor’s house in the middle of the night carrying with him a machete, a sawed off shotgun, and a revolver. He went into the 13-year-old girl’s room and with the shotgun, he shot her while she was in bed asleep. As if that wasn’t enough, he then chased the mother back of the girl to the Atkins house, where he shot his 75-year-old father, who had convinced the parole officials to release Atkins from prison 5 years before. Atkins had been in jail and had served 10 years of a life sentence for killing his older brother who at the time was at the age of 23. Even though the death penalty can produce irreversible miscarriage of justice, death penalty should be allowed because it provides comfort to the victim's family, it deters crime, and you know the criminal will never hurt anyone again.
Even though the death penalty can produce irreversible miscarriages of justice, Death penalty should be allowed because it provides comfort to the victim's family. Family and friends of the victims should never have to worry about parole or a slight chance of that same criminal escaping. Knowing that that one person

There have been many cases where a delinquent somehow escapes from jail or is set free and the first thing they want to do or plan on doing is getting revenge from whoever put them in there. It should be frightening knowing that a man who killed someone, probably your parent or a brother, is just sentenced to life in prison. Knowing that that man can escape jail any moment and come for you or is looking for another victim to kill. There have been years were more than 15,000 prisoners escape prison in the United States and not all are capture and taken back to