According to  Los Angeles Airport Peace Officers Association, “The prisoners currently on California’s death row have murdered more than 1,000 people. Of those, 229 were children, 43 were peace officers, and 294 of the victims were sexually assaulted and tortured.”

Capital punishment is death as a penalty for specific crimes. Even though it’s a controversial solution, 58 countries still implement it. The death penalty should be legal because it promotes protection among the society and victim’s families, and it eliminates the aggressor’s opportunity to wrong again.

To establish death penalty is to care for the welfare of the society. The government executed slaughterers such as Timothy McVeigh or John Wayne Gacy not because they wanted to but because they massacred 201 people. It’s incorrect not to kill them because they are a danger to society, one they do not deserve to live in. According to the University of Colorado, “An execution saves 5 lives while the commuting of a death sentence results in about five more.” Capital punishment is a way to defend the nation from the most wicked offenders and it’s wrongful to grant another life opportunity to those, rather than to kill them for the crimes committed.

Our duty as a society is to stop these killing machines. Giving those monsters an opportunity to live is the same as giving them the power to hurt the society again. As stated by Alexander Kermit, an NFL player who lost his mother and sister to the killer Tiqueon Cox, “Tiqueon was sentenced to death by a jury of his peers and has been on death row for 30 years… Cox, while on death row, attempted a violent takeover of the Super Max Adjustment Center at San Quentin with a goal to kill as many guards as possible.” Their lives are part of a vicious cycle; nothing will stop them from striking again; not even jail. Death is the solution deserved and the solution that will end a perpetual danger.

Anti-death penalty opponents claim this punishment is a cruel and brutal way to make someone pay for their crime yet they support a more barbaric way to effect justice. According to William Blake, a prisoner who has spent almost 31 years in a 7×9 cell in extreme isolation, “If I try to imagine what kind of death, even a slow one, would be worse than twenty-five years in the box—and I have tried to imagine it—I can come up with nothing… dying couldn’t take but a short time if you or the State were to kill me; in SHU I have died a thousand internal deaths.” It’s more brutal to leave someone locked in a room alone for their entire life; Blake has even prayed for him to die during his sleep.

As a duty of protection, the death penalty should be legal. Colombia is one country that does not implement this solution yet is also one of the most dangerous countries, one country with the worst prison conditions and one country with the biggest criminals of all times. Garavito is a Colombian criminal who admitted to rape, torture and murder 138 kids, however, his sentence was of 40 years and it can still decrease. He doesn’t deserve an opportunity in this world and it’s not wrong to kill someone that has harmed society in such a diabolical way. The death penalty is important to end with enduring dangers and monsters in the world.