Sociology

The debate on whether or not America should continue using capital punishment in its justice system has been marked with much controversy. Many have claimed that capital punishment is a contradiction our human rights provisions by the American laws (Zimring, 2003). It is however to be realized that capital punishment is an important tool for ensuring law and order in the American society. The law must be upheld by all in the society as it is only by such that justice and fairness can be realized. It is in support of the thesis that America should continue using capital punishment that this paper is written.

Capital punishment is by simple terms the legal act of executing criminals who have been convicted of committing capital crimes against others in the society. It should be noted that by failing to execute killers in our community, the American nation will compromise the value it gives to the security of its citizens life (Mckelvie, 2006). It is only by killing killers that we can combat capital such crimes and thus ensure a community free of threats elements in the American society. As a culture of the human community, it plays much to have a lasting solution to any eminent social problem that affects its members (Mckelvie, 2006). Giving an analogy of the efforts that the American government has given to the fight against terrorism, capital punishment is a sustainable and permanent solution to criminology in our nation.

Statistical information on crime rates in our nation have evidently revealed that crime rates have reduced due to the use of capital punishment in our legal justice systems (Zimring, 2003). Criminal behavior has been found to be an influential behavior rather than an inborn individual character. It is by associating with criminals that a new generation of criminals is formed in our society. It is due to this, and making a conclusion from the principles of sufficient reasoning that capital punishment should always remain as a tool for eliminating felony in our nation. By letting capital crime offenders remain in our society is risking the bad influential potential they have to our youth (Zimring, 2003). Capital crime offenders should thus be executed to ensure a sustainable solution to criminology in the society.

It is human to claim sympathy on criminals. However, it should be noted that sentencing capital offenders has and will never be a solution to criminology in our society. What is the logic behind claims of having mercy on criminals who have proved a major threat to the lives of others in the community There is no need of spending billions of tax payers money to sustain criminal in prisons for a life time (Zimring, 2003).  Even while in prison, criminals have been found to be a major concern for insecurity in the society. They both act as potential organizers of crimes in the society or influencing the generation of professional criminals on interacting with other criminals in the prison cells. This is thus clear evidence on the uncertainty that life sentencing of capital crime offenders can have in the society.

Still to be noted here is the fact that giving a second chance to a criminal is a violation of the basic underlying psychological principles that govern the human behavior (Zimring, 2003). It has been evidently found out that first time offenders have a high chance of committing more serious crimes upon their release from prisons. Therefore, it is based on this that by failing to use capital punishment on capital crime offenders, our nation will never realize a sustainable solution to the problem of insecurity in the society.
In conclusion, it is evidently clear that capital punishment can easily ensure sustainable security and justice in the society. Let every member in the society get the equivalent share of his or her deeds in the society.