The Death Penalty Is a Good Thing That Needs to Be Used More Often.

The death penalty is not used enough. The simple fact remains that there are way too many murders a year. I believe the murder rate can and will be lowered if the death penalty was a real threat for these criminals. Many say that the death penalty will not make a difference and point to states where the crime rate stayed the same after the death penalty was re-instated. My response to this is that it was not used enough. Too many times criminals sit on death row for years wasting away, waiting to die. What type of life is that? Why not put these people out of their misery and save the tax payers money? In Texas it costs only 86 dollars for the state to kill someone, but over 30,000 dollars a year to keep them alive. If this person has been found guilty and sentenced to death, then why are we, the taxpayers, paying to keep them alive? It doesn't make sense. The Federal government and the individual states need to use the death penalty more often and more efficiently.