In the past, people have always felt that if they had been wronged in some way, it was his or her right to take vengeance on the person that had done wrong. This mentality still exists, even today, but in a lesser form because the law has now outlined a person's rights and developed punishments that conform to those rights, yet allow for the retribution for their crime. However, some feel that those laws and …showed first 75 words of 498 total…

…showed last 75 words of 498 total…chaos but raise the crime rate further with people running around on private vendettas. Even with these facts and arguments, the federal government refuses to restore the death penalty. So all we can do now is protest to the government, wait, and hope that it will not take a high crime rate and the loss of many innocent lives before they realize what a mistake they made in 1976 by totally abolishing capital punishment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**