In nine pages the argument that those individuals who receive the death penalty should be hastily executed without ceremony is presented in terms of cost and crime reductions and media exploitation. There are eight sources cited in the bibliography.
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and legal validity of the death penalty has been challenged for generations. The Eighth Amendment of the US Constitution prohibits acts which can be classified as cruel and unusual
punishment. The death penalty has consequently been in and out of favor among the general public, the states, and the federal government alike. It can be contended, however,
that the validity of the death penalty has not only withstood the test of time but that those who are sentenced to death should be quickly and unceremoniously be executed.
The reasons for this contention are many. These reasons revolve around the following facts in particular, however:
1. the death penalty has now been debated ad nauseum and we should move away from these debated an on toward the execution of
laws which are in place, 2. stricter penalties and the enforcement of those penalties have been demonstrated to lessen crime rates,
and finally 3. allowing individuals sentenced to death to live on into infinity as their cases are rehashed over and over
again is not only expensive but allows these criminals a chance to profit from their crimes.
The first task at hand in demonstrating these facts is a quick examination of the death penalty as a whole. While the various states have batted the issue
of capital punishment around considerably over the past four decades, however, the federal government would lie quite on the issue after the 1963 federal hanging of Victor Feguer in Iowa