There are many reason why the death penalty should be and should not be a punishment for Violent Criminals. We all have many different reasons why we want to approve this as a punishment such as; It holds people responsible for the horrible content of their character or it decreases the prison population and saves taxpayers money. However the death penalty should not be a punishment because the death penalty creates the possibility of innocent people being executed, because evidence is not always perfect at the time a crime is committed, and the people could be executed based on false evidence.
The downfall of the death penalty is the suffering of the people that were not involved in the crime, because the families of both victim and the offender must suffer the loss of their loved ones. The death penalty gives forces more people to suffer by executing more people, people that have a chance of being rehabilitated. The cost of an execution is far more than keeping them in prison. A victim committing a serious crime is no different than guards executing prisoners. The main point is, the death penalty should not be used against violent criminals.