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CAPITAL PUNISHMENT In today’s society, it is believed that criminals should be dealt with in a just manner. However, it is the criminals who seem to be the ones who are getting ahead. The law in which we follow seems to benefit those who break it more than it does the victims. For example, just a few weeks ago there was an incident where a burglar was waiting outside a home in the bushes. He waited for the family living there to leave for the weekend. When they drove out of the garage and began closing the garage door, he snuck in just before it closed. He did not realize, however, that the door from the garage to the inside of the house was going to be locked as well. There were no windows nor was there any way to open either of the garage doors, thus he was locked inside the garage the whole weekend. When the family had returned and discovered him, they immediately called the police for trespassing. To their dismay, a counter-suit was made by the burglar on grounds of neglect. He stated that he could have died because there was no ample air supply, nor was there any food for him to survive on. He said he had to live off of the cat food that was left in the garage. HE claimed it was inhumane. When the