The Death Penalty: Stopping America’s Killers The death penalty is an effective safeguard against crime. While one cannot help but feel pity for the criminal to excuse his crimes would be a step down the road to forgiving all crimes (McCuen 114). Life sentences do not adequately protect society, whereas the death penalty properly applied does so with certainty (Bender 97). By killing them we give them a zero percent chance of being released to commit …showed first 75 words of 1062 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1062 total…chance to kill again, by doing so we are putting more innocent lives in danger than the death penalty does. “Being a death row inmate is cruel and unusual punishment, so is being a victim” (Bender 57). Works Cited Bender, David L. The Death Penalty opposing Viewpoints San Diego, CA: Green Haven Press, 1991. McCuen, Gary E. The Death penalty and the Disadvantaged Hudson, WI: GEM Publications Inc, 1997. Nardo, Don. Death Penalty SanDiego, CA: Lucent Books Inc, 1992.