A Time to Play God “In national news today, a black man from southern Texas was killed today. He was brutally beaten and than roped to the back of a pick-up and dragged to his death.” This isn’t all too uncommon to hear in today’s news and if anything I think that we have grown numb and gotten use to hearing things of this nature. I don’t think that crimes are getting …showed first 75 words of 510 total…

…showed last 75 words of 510 total…I think that there might be a dramatic change. I personally don’t think that having the death penalty will drastically lower the crime rate, but I do think it is a necessary evil. The drug dealers, the terrorists and the rapists are all watching we might as well show them that the government isn’t going to slap them on the wrist and that we can be as tough as they think they are.