Have you ever lost a loved one by homicide and felt revenge? Well, you’re not alone. There is a way to overcome that revenge, the death penalty. The death penalty should be kept legal because murderers should be put to death if they take a person's life, they could cause harm to others in the same prison if they get put in jail, and they shouldn’t deserve to live out the rest of their lives in prison. Murders can get the death penalty by many reasons: treason, espionage, drug trafficking, aircraft hijacking, and drive-by shootings. When murderers take someone’s life, they should be put to death. Getting charged with the death penalty means they will be publicly shamed. The death penalty can be used in many ways. One of which is, the lethal injection. The criminal will be injected with sodium thiopental to put the criminal to sleep, Pavulon to cause muscle paralysis and respiratory arrest, and potassium chloride to stop the heart (Wikipedia, 2018). Another way is the electric chair, which is used by the prisoner being strapped to a chair at the wrists, waist, and ankles. Then two electrodes are strapped to the head and a leg. A voltage of 2,000 watts are rushed through the body several times a minute and eventually stops the heart (The Register, 2006) …show more content…
A way to prevent them from doing so, is put them in solitary confinement. By putting them in solitary confinement, they stay confined in a jail cell by themselves for 22 out of the 24 hours a day (The Guardian, 2016). The other two hours are spent in a fenced or walled room where they have time to exercise. They are limited to have anything at all. In a regular cell there can be reading materials, art supplies, etc. but in solitary confinement they are not allowed to have anything that may cause harm to themselves or