Capital punishment doesn’t just have an outcome for the defendant and the prosecutor it also affects the family of the defendant. Today, in our criminal justice system we just focus on the victim of the crime, but in research there is really more than one victim. However, this victim is not believed in cultural views to be a victim. Research in investigating other victim’s such as family members of the defendant that has gotten the sentence of capital punishment. Meanwhile, researchers have developed surveys for families in death penalty situations.
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But as researchers, we can determine that we still will always have capital punishment because individuals believe some people deserve that sentence. As much knowledge about capital punishment that we have read about and its beliefs and historical past we can see the flaws. As researchers, we would like to see the difference in giving less capital punishment and giving life in prison without parole. Therefore, maybe this philosophy will change a criminal mind before he acts. Maybe this could stop individual’s from committing murder remember life in prison no parole we can all agree that is a harsher sentence than the death