Capital Punishment Necessary He wasn't asleep, as his roommates had thought when they approached Joni Lenz's bed that afternoon. Instead they found her drenched in a pool of blood still dripping from her body. She was immediately rushed to hospital as she lay in a coma. Although she survived, she suffered permanent brain damage. Joni was one of the few victims to survive an attack by Ted Bundy, a serial rapist and murderer who had victimized women as young as twelve. Investigations revealed that he assaulted thirty-six women, but no one will ever know the exact number of Bundy's victims. It's a number he took with him to the grave. Capital punishment is defined as the imposition of death on a person convicted in a court of law. It is a legal infliction and has been used to punish a wide variety of crimes, but nowadays is limited to murder or treason. Today, methods such as stoning and beheading are considered barbaric. Currently, criminals are electrocuted, executed by shooting and lethal injection, or sent to gas chambers, so death would be virtually painless. It's instant. A capital criminal should be treated in a way that makes it impossible for him to repeat the crime. Execution is the only sure means of preventing a murderer from being at large and committing further murders. If a criminal is imprisoned, not only are prison staff exposed to violent killers, but the entire community could also be at risk if these criminals escape. This was the case with Ted Bundy. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1976 after being accused of murder and robbery... amidst documents... enough for the criminal to justify the death penalty. This reinforces the previous point of imposing appropriate punishment on the crime. Not all prisoners deserve the death penalty. A person accused of manslaughter should not be treated as someone who kills just for the sake of killing. He should be given a second chance, as the murder was not premeditated. There would be a high possibility that this person could be rehabilitated and returned to society as a reformed person. Although modern society views death as an inhumane punishment, there are circumstances in which all other methods such as rehabilitation are useless. In these cases capital punishment is the embodiment of justice. After considering the issue from several aspects, capital punishment is, at times, a necessary course of action.