HB58

HB58 Die Or Decay Macy Lydigsen & Macy Pleveich The purpose of our bill is to make the death penalty a requirement in all fifty states. The death penalty is currently a legal sentence in thirty three states and not a legal sentence in seventeen states. In the death penalty is enacted in these thirty three states under cases with aggravated murder, rape, and drug dealing. Our main goal making this bill legal is to make sure all criminals get the same punishments. One criminal shouldn’t get a lesser punishment than another criminal just because they are in different states. It’s unfair and imbalanced that criminals can get away with the same crimes in certain states without the death penalty. Majority of the states do agree with the death role so why not make it legal in every state. This bill will help our country in many ways. It will make states sentences for the crimes committed equal, lower crime rates in our country, and saves more money than the costs of a life sentence. We will be equal because everyone has the same punishment probabilities making it truly fair. It will lower crimes because polls taken in 2008 show when the death penalty was in action the murders and other violence decreased rapidly. Lastly, it saves more money because although it does cost approximately two million dollars per case, regular life sentence cases will cost $1.2 million-$3.6 million.Would it hurt anyone to pay a few more dollars to fund death penalty? Or are you just going to let murders get away with murder because you don’t want to give a few extra dollars for taxes? Some still say no because, "its wrong, the killer should live!" But, did the victim have a choice? Overall, death penalty in all states is a virtuous thing. This is why we think all states should require the death penalty. The people affected by our bill are criminals who break the law hurting innocent people, and families of the victims. It will rid the dangerous criminals from our society and give the victim’s family closure. Our bill, having the death penalty enacted in every state has certain rules. These rules are it must be required in all states with cases involving willful murder, serious drug dealing, and multiple rapes. If the jury and judge do put the accused on the death penalty, there must be post trials while there waiting on death roll. The post trials will make sure it’s completely necessary for the criminal to die. It also could save lives of people who were innocent but proven guilty. This bill will affect all Americans, specifically medical service, military service, the Justice System, the criminal and their family, and the victim and their family. It affects all Americans because the funds paying for this bill will be from raised taxes. It affects medical and military service because military will be guarding the criminal while they wait for medical service to inject the lethal injection. It affects the criminal and victim and their families because it will forever change their lives. Lastly, it affects the Justice System because it will impact the lives of people in future cases. These people will also be the participants of this bill. It will require us to hire the people of the Justice System (juries, judges, and attorneys), medical service, and military service. If this bill is to pass it will be in action for fifteen years. The Justice System and the President will make sure this happens. They will enforce this bill if certain states defy it and choose not to. This bill has good and bad affects. Good affects are the criminals will get their justice, closure for the victims and their families, and makes all forms of punishment equal in every state. There are only a few bad affects which is theres a chance of an innocent person being killed and the raising of taxes to cover this fund. These are the terms and benefits of our bill.
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