Capital punishment should be applied to convicted felons guilty of crimes, such as rapists and first-degree murders, to establish a more fair and capable justice system.
The landmark Supreme Court decision in Kennedy v. Louisiana significantly changed capital punishment in the U.S. in 2008. According to Oyez, a multimedia archive of Supreme Court cases, the court chose to uphold the Eighth Amendment, claiming it was a cruel or unusual punishment, thereby prohibiting the death penalty for the rape of a child in cases where the victim did not die and death was not intended.
Raping an innocent child is the epitome of corrupting innocence and should be met with the harshest of consequences in order to deter similar inhumane crimes.
Enforcing the death penalty will serve as a warning to those degenerates who only wish to hurt other people.
The death penalty should be enforced only in cases where viable evidence is provided in court because society has not only the right to keep the general public safe, but also the obligation.
The proponents against the death penalty are simply too naive and soft to recognize the cruel realities victims and their families face.
The death penalty will show the public that our justice system will address the needs of the victims, not the needs of convicted murderers and rapists.
While lethal injection is legal in California, as well as 27 other states, Gov. Gavin Newsom put a halt on any further executions in late 2019, leaving 737 murderers and rapists incarcerated but alive.
For example, in 1979 Marvin P. Walker shot three people and molested a young woman, but now has less than two years left in prison until he is sent out into the world, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Recidivism of sex offenders is incredibly difficult to measure because of the underreported nature of sex crimes. So there may be even more than authorities can track.
Sex offenders are more likely to recidivate with a nonsexual offense, but these offenses are often sexual in their underlying rationales, according to the Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking.
Efforts to rehabilitate criminals who have committed capital crimes show the public that their grief and trauma matter less than a criminal’s redemption.
Keep in mind that according to the 2019-20 state budget, 7.35% of California’s funds will go to prisons.
This means that the public’s tax dollars are paying for the healthcare, recreational activities and rehabilitation programs of child rapists.
California’s prison system is overflowing with people – criminals who have sadistically wronged others and do not contribute anything to society except hatred and violence.
Increased enforcement of the death penalty will maintain prison populations at manageable levels, all while acting as a form of incapacitation, ensuring the public that those who have committed violent crimes can never act again.
When notorious serial killer Ted Bundy was finally executed in 1989, citizens celebrated by hosting a tailgating event with beer outside of the prison walls, according to All That’s Interesting, a website dedicated to providing history, science and news factoids.
In fact, 63% of the public believes that the death penalty is morally justified and more than half of the public is in favor of the death penalty in cases of murder, according to Pew Research Study in 2015.
People such as Ted Bundy are not even human, but rather monsters that take up space and need to be eliminated from society in order to preserve the well being and basic right to life for others.
