In the book The Chamber John Grisham shares the need for the death penalty in our society. The death penalty has existed as long as humans have existed. The quote "an eye for an eye" is found in the Bible. In the middle ages fines, public humiliation and imprisonment were appropriate punishments for all crimes, and death penalty for all murders. Today, Federal law states that the death penalty is to be enforced with convicted …showed first 75 words of 2360 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2360 total…from happening. Preventing crimes from happening is the most effective way to deter crime. We need capital punishment or the death penalty as it is refered to so many times because it reduces the amount of overpopulation in our jails and then we are not wasting our tax dollars to support murders and rapists and other criminals. And in the book The Chamber John Grisham shares the need for the death penalty in our society.