Every country and state has a judicial system that is meant to uphold justice and equity within it. Through this system, crimes are punished appropriately, following the demands of the law and the rights of the state’s indigenes.

Without this system, the rate of crime and lawlessness would rise unimaginably. Sometimes just knowing the penalty for an offense is enough to deter someone from committing it.

While some offenses warrant community service, some earn the offender some jail time, with the highest of these punishments being a death sentence. Sentencing an offender to death may seem like a harsh punishment, but there are reasons for its justification.

The death sentence is not a punishment for a misdemeanor. Instead, it is a punishment for a felony, primarily if the crime is classified as a capital offense. In the judicial system, in most places, offenses such as murder fall into this category. When one places the crime and the punishment on a scale, neither outweighs the other. The death sentence may just be the proper punishment that is equal in magnitude to the offense.

For crimes as serious as murder, there is a need for a suitable punishment. Punishment of this magnitude sends a strong warning to potential perpetrators. This warning will no doubt reveal the state's zero tolerance for such a crime. Even if the warning does not eliminate the crime one hundred percent, it at least prevents a certain percentage of potential perpetrators from taking action. 

Punishments defined for law offenders are not instituted because there is a desire to harm people. Instead, most punishments such as jail time, are intended not only as a deterrent but to correct and rehabilitate the offender.

The death penalty, however, should only be used when the crime is significant enough that there is no hope of rehabilitation. The only remaining option is to make an example out of the offender.

The issue of prison congestion also cannot be ignored. Even the lives of prisoners with only a few years sentence matters. If people guilty of a capital offense that warrants death are executed as the law demands, more space becomes available in prisons, unlike long or life sentences.

The proposition for Indiana to support death sentences to be carried out in Terre Haute is not a proposition to conveniently kill the indigenes. Instead, it is a proposition to uphold the law and maintain peace and order.