RETRIBUTION

 When someone takes a life, the balance of justice is disturbed. Unless that balance is
restored, society succumbs to a rule of violence. Only the taking of the murderer's life
restores the balance and allows society to show convincingly that murder is an intolerable
crime which will be punished in kind. Retribution has its basis in religious values, which
have historically maintained that it is proper to take an "eye for an eye" and a life for a
life.

 Deuteronomy 19:21 Your eye shall not pity: life shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for
tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

 Retributivism is not based on hatred for the criminal (though a feeling of vengeance may
accompany the punishment). Retributivism is the theory that the criminal deserves to be
punished and deserves to be punished in proportion to the gravity of his or her crime,
whether or not the victim or anyone else desires it. We may all deeply regret having to
carry out the punishment, but consider it warranted.

When a society fails to punish criminals in a way thought to be proportionate to the

gravity of the crime, the danger arises that the public would take the law into its own
hands, resulting in vigilante justice, lynch mobs, and private acts of retribution. The
outcome is likely to be an anarchistic, insecure state of injustice.

 The instinct for retribution is part of the nature of man, and channeling that instinct in the
administration of criminal justice serves an important purpose in promoting the stability
of a society governed by law. When people begin to believe that organized society is
unwilling or unable to impose upon criminal offenders the punishment they 'deserve,'
then there are sown the seeds of anarchy -- of self-help, vigilante justice, and lynch law.

 Death penalty worthy cases

 A guy who escaped prison 9 times was reportedly a mass rapist of BOYS. For
every escape, he raped around 2-3 boys who are of minority, then kill violently.

 Cortez had escaped from asylums and prisons 12 times before 4 June, 1983, on
the night of which he broke into a random house, where a family lived. The
father, went there the next day and found the entire family hacked to death all
over the house. There was blood on the ceiling. His ex-wife and her husband,
were dead, with as many as 30 stab wounds each, along with their children who
had their heads chopped off

 People would continue to trust and obey the justice system. They would have the sense of
relief and safety. The number of people that could’ve been potential victims to criminal
are now saved.
  It is better to take the life of one, than put numerous lives at risk. For every minute that
passes, murders are committed and it would a never-ending cycle if we don’t put a stop to
it through death.

 Summa theological

 Robert Macy, District Attorney of Oklahoma City, described his concept of the need for
retribution in one case: "In 1991, a young mother was rendered helpless and made to
watch as her baby was executed. The mother was then mutilated and killed. The killer
should not lie in some prison with three meals a day, clean sheets, cable TV, family visits
and endless appeals. For justice to prevail, some killers just need to die."

EXPENDITURES

 The Philippines spends the amount of 445, 000 pesos for every inmate per year. (multiply
the number of inmates)
o They could have used the money for other facilities that are NEEDED

 Frank Zimring, "What we are paying for at such great cost is essentially our own
ambivalence about capital punishment. We try to maintain the apparatus of state killing
and another apparatus that almost guarantees that it won't happen. The public pays for
both sides."---- so instead of paying for these criminals that committed heinous crimes
and are the pests of society, it’s much better to rid of them and use the money for our
society’s progress

 Chris Clemm, "Executions do not have to cost that much. We could hang them and re-
use the rope. No cost! Or we could use firing squads and ask for volunteer members who
would provide their own guns and ammunition. Again, no cost."