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The death penalty is a perfect deterrent. In order for any rehabilitation program to be effective you have to choose one that will make the criminal fear the consequences of his or her actions. Until we quit allowing the hard criminals to allow themselves to put on a show of victimization we will never be able to keep new ones from arising. The criminals have so many ways out of their predicaments these days it is ridiculous, plea bargains are the stupidest things I ever heard of. Plea bargains allow our law enforcement agencies to solve a crime without doing the work. They give another criminal who has been caught a lesser term of incarceration so he will testify against a worse criminal. Or they will even allow them to be found guilty of a lesser charge, which completely changes the sentencing process. That is how criminals that should be off the streets for 20 to 25 years end up back on the streets, committing the same crimes in less than ten.

I think we need to make a stand against them. We do not need plea bargains. They are supposed to be detectives and case solvers. Why don't they detect and solve the case without allowing other hard criminals to get away with what they did just to enhance the law enforcements advantage over another criminal. If a criminal is guilty there is a way to find it without freeing another one. The problem is, the consequences for the actions of the criminals is not great enough to put the fear in them they need to not commit the crime. If they fear for their life they will undoubtedly not commit that crime. If they know they can plea-bargain out of something what is to hold them back from committing that crime.

The problem with the death penalty is our detectives do not always do their job with efficiency. They make mistakes. There are a few cases where a man has been placed on death row and he was actually innocent. I fear a death penalty would be hard to enforce when we have law enforcement officials making mistakes. It would not be a good thing if a man wrongly accused were put to death for a crime he did not commit. Problems like these will be the thing that would hold the death penalty from becoming a positive rehabilitation course of action.

We need our criminals to understand they will be held accountable for their actions. We have to find ways so they won't allow the jury to victimize them and let them off the hook. We need ways to keep our prisons from becoming overcrowded and endangering the

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