Death penalty, is it good or bad? Through the Federal Government, 38 of the 50 states have death penalty laws, and public opinion polls in the last decade have generally indicated that the majority of Americans favor capital punishment. The death penalty is needed in the country do to the high crime rate and violence. It helps as a deterred, stopping people from committing crime, such as murder. With the death penalty it also brings closure to …showed first 75 words of 768 total…

…showed last 75 words of 768 total…finger print testing, etc. These tests don’t lie. Although the execution can be quite expensive, it doesn’t matter how much it costs as long as justice is met. “If you commit the crime, you do the time.” Yet, this isn’t the case anymore. If you are going to oppose the death penalty, how can you live with yourself when innocent people are harmed and murdered by those who have been murdered before?