Death Penalty: Right or Wrong? For Some Term Paper

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Death Penalty: Right or Wrong?

For some time I have believed that the death penalty is a necessary part of our legal system, for the protection of society as a whole. In forming this opinion, I looked at Ted Bundy, who was convicted of monstrously killing four college sorority sisters and a 13-year-old girl he happened upon while she was walking home from school. He held the poor 13-year-old girl for several days in a deserted pigsty in the hot scrub woods of northern Florida before finally killing her. Some authorities think that he may be responsible for over 100 murders, and not the thirty or so he admitted to before his death. Ted Bundy tried to negotiate his way out of being put to death by hinting that the police could clear a lot more murders, but that he would only talk if his death sentence were reversed.

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Authorities decided that he had been less than straightforward in the past and that he would just continue to manipulate.

Another terrible case of serial murder was John Wayne Gacy of Chicago, who preyed on young teenaged boys, burying them in the crawl space under his own house. Then there was Jeffrey Dahmer, who preyed on young homosexual men. Now, more recently, we have the case of two small girls horribly murdered by two different men in southern California. David Westerfield has been tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. While he killed only one person, he killed a small child who hadn't had a chance to begin to live her life. It seems likely that if he had gotten away with it, he would have done it again, as scenes of violence against little girls were found on his computer.

Putting all of these together, it seems that no….....

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