deathpenalty

Capital Punishment has long been a source of anger and argument in the United States and the world. Activists on the left argue that killing a killer is circular logic; that it is saying if the government kills, it’s okay. Pro-Death Penalty activists state a message must be sent to the criminal element: commit a severe enough crime and forfeit your life. So the question now is, “Who is right?”

I would argue for the Death Penalty, but as it exists today, there is a lack of the message desired. As it stands, the leftists are correct in their assumptions. We are killing killers who don’t care if they die. No message can be sent, because the only people whom it would apply to don’t give dying a second thought; it’s part of their world. What can be done to remedy this?

Right now, the Death Penalty/Capital Punishment exists in mild forms. Few states electrocute Death Rowers, opting instead to stick them with a needle or gassing them, two forms of relatively painless death. No state hangs anyone. The Rack has gone out of style. Criminals sentenced to death are assured a decade at least of public paid living, “three hots and a cot,” not to mention exercise facilities and the ability to appeal to their heart’s content. Why should anyone fear this life? Hell, some might prefer it to the tough life of the inner city streets or criminal underworld. These killers and other high-end offenders are living the life of ease at our expense. Shame on us.

Our nation is in a grip of crime, whether we admit it or not. Crime rates, while some states and cities report decreases, are still steady and increasing in some cases at the extreme ends. There is no deterrent to murder. The San Diego kid shooter, Williams, will be tried as an adult under law—or will he? There is a petition out to sentence him as a youth, then again as an adult in a few years, when he will most likely not receive the Death Penalty for killing two and injuring (physically) a Baker’s dozen more. How long did it take us to kill John Wayne Gacy? Ten years? More than a dozen? In that time, he lived like a dark king, appealing and gaining notoriety as such an infamous individual. Jeffery Dahmer was shived before his sentence could be carried out, but how much longer would that have been? The man ate his victims after defiling their corpses, and we let him sit, a psychological study, in a jail cell. There is no justice.

We are in a society absent of peace and stability. The White House is bringing normalcy to the nation, trying to achieve great things, but with a nation unable to comply, how can any true change be enacted. There is one way to restore order and peace and stability to the nation: fear.

Now before you call me a fascist or far right extremist, I want you to hear me out. I do not think the government should rule by fear. That would be a totalitarian state, and unacceptable to us. But there should exist fear of the law. I could care less if you respect the law in the confines of your mind, but as soon as you break the law, prepare to reap the whirlwind. Fear it, because it can kill you. Fear it, because it can break you. Fear the law, and with fear, will come peace.

How do we bring about this fear? Simply put, we turn Capital Punishment and the Death Penalty into their namesakes. If the government punishes you, you should know it. I propose reintroducing the Rack and Bamboo Shoot torture. If someone is convicted by a judge or jury of their peers of crime warranting Capital Punishment, the execution of the sentence should be almost immediate. Murder should be answered by death. Reintroduce the gallows. Introduce the guillotine. Make executions take place a month after sentencing (leftists argue there isn’t enough time for an appeal, but if you can’t convince a jury in this day and age with genetic testing and forensic science investigating everything, no appeal will work. A month at least gives some time to bring new evidence to light and get a new trial, in which case, the sentence would be temporarily suspended until a new evidentiary hearing can be held) and make them public. I want to turn on ABC a month after the Williams kid is (hopefully) sentenced to death and see him swing for his crime.

Show the criminal element we’ll kill a kid for committing such heinous crimes, and the number of people who’d take the risk of being caught committing murder would drop dramatically. This nation and Judiciary needs a backbone. The nation deserves to have justice be swift and final. Releasing a killer after serving half a life sentence negates the concept of justice and defiles the memory of the one he killed. Rapists released before sentence—or at all—spit on those whose life they ruined (it is the opinion of this author that rapists, any rapist or sex offender should be dragged through a street of broken glass and then beheaded—twice in the case of a man—in the town square).

Drug dealers fear no death penalty because too many oncewere-hippies sit on juries or on the Bench. No one wants to kill the drug dealer who sold the crack to Little Jimmy who then gave some to his friends, resulting in all of their OD’s at age fifteen. As I have previously stated, drug dealers are waging war against America, and it is our job to destroy that threat to our people. Sentencing for them should be as harsh as a rapist or murderer, perhaps more so because they affect so many more people.

Fear is an important tool to use. We have become afraid to use it for fear of converting our Republic to an authoritarian state, ruled by an elite few or one, but that is a fear unfounded in today’s society. Our government could not progress far down the road to ultimate control; the people would not let them. We need to strengthen the laws concerning Capital Punishment. We may seem like butchers to the world, but after a short time, fear will take a hold and the crime rate will drop down and the world will see that we were right.

An eye for an eye will blind the world, it was once said. But they never thought if you were going to go blind by getting revenge or by committing a heinous act, you might stop. The fear of fatal ramifications is a powerful motivator towards preserving oneself and prevention. Think about that the next time some kid shoots up his school because he “was picked on.”