Summary: Should The United States Stop Using The Death Penalty

The death penalty is never the right choice. In America last year fifty three people were executed, and at this time in the USA over 3500 people are on death row.

The Death Penalty is more expensive than life imprisonment. Supporters of the death penalty said it is cheaper to execute a death row inmate than to give them life imprisonment. Several studies and researchers have proven them wrong. The procedures are longer; require more experts, and additional hearings which is not cost beneficial to the tax payers. Trials can easily last anywhere from ten to twenty years. Before an inmate is executed, the state make sure they go through rigorous medical examination. According to Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC), “a study released by the Urban Institute on March 6, 2008 forecast that the lifetime cost to taxpayers for the capitally-prosecuted cases in Maryland since 1978 will be $186 million. That translates to

96% of states have found patterns of discrimination. Since 1977, 48.6% of the death penalty has been used on caucasian criminals, 40.9% on African American criminals, 8.9% on latino criminals, and 1.6 on

“Executions cost more than life in prison on average $ 2 million per person vs. $ 500.00 to put them on trail.

Execution is too harsh a punishment for any crime. The United States of America is a first world country, yet our government allows for barbaric means of retribution to occur every year. No one person has the right to take another’s life.

Despite the fact that African Americans make up to just over thirteen percent of the nation’s population, more than forty percent of those currently on the federal death row are African American. Many may say or believe that the justice system is fair or honorable but the truth is that the

In states where the death penalty allowed, the system costs the taxpayers millions of dollars a year. A study of Maryland cases resulting in a death sentence estimated that each cost taxpayers an average of $3 million in lifetime costs, which is $1.9 million more than no-death-notice cases (Muhlhausen). In California, the cost of trials, appeals, and death row facilities, estimates to $150 million a year (Medina A14). Abolishing the death penalty will result in lower prison expenses. Housing a death row inmate can cost between $97,000 and $127,000 a year (Ulloa). Death row inmates are not permitted to share cells therefore, it costs less to house an inmate sentenced to life without parole. States will save millions of dollars by sentencing

Death Penalty supporters say it is cheaper to kill the convict rather than keep them alive but contrary to that belief it is not. Even though each day it cost the tax payers $55.09 which is roughly $20,108 a year (Hurley), this is nothing compared to the legal fees that the inmate racks up leaving you and I the tax payers to pick up the tab. For an inmate that is death row it cost $68,000 in the due to observation of guards all hours of the day compared to the $38,000 to watch them if they are only on a life sentence (Hurley).

The death penalty is quite expensive when it comes to housing the inmate as well as paying for the execution itself. As an inmate is housed they must be fed three times a day while also using the facilities if needed. When all costs are accounted for it costs an average of 30,000 dollars to

The cost of the Death Penalty is highly expensive. A case to put someone in jail costs on average two million

Should the death penalty be abolished across the nation? Throughout the history of the United States, in a court of law the death penalty would be designated to a criminal whose crime was deemed worthy of a grueling penalty that is based on a verdict which may not be completely accurate in every circumstance. Although many feel as if it is the necessary form of punishment that must be given at times, the death penalty is a punishment that should not be made legal throughout the entire United States because of the fact that it is based on a verdict that may not be one hundred percent accurate. Additionally, this negates the chance of the victim’s innocence to be reinstated furthermore in time and decreases their chance to be given the

There are people who believe that the death penalty is wrong, and there are some people who

Throughout history scientist have worked on improving methods of execution to be more humane nevertheless despite chargers of cruel and unusual punishment the Court has continuously rejected challenge. Statistics so far has shown that the death penalty has deterred murder, if it is one thing people fear more than anything is death. Statistics show that in towns where capital punishment is enforced there is a decrease in crime rates such as rape and murder. They offer that the justification for capital punishment is that the deserved punishment of those that commit heinous crimes provides just retribution, not revenge, which is supported by a different motive. The families of the victims argue that it is unfair that while their loved one had to die unjustly that their killer goes on to live out the rest of their days; even if it is in a jail cell. But what does one do about the irrevocable mistakes of people who were mistried and midsentence to death. As with all forms of justice nothing is 100% correct all of the time, the judges, jurors and lawyers are all humans and they make mistakes. However the opposition views the death penalty as severe and unusual punishment due to the amount of pain suffered and the way people are executed. There have been cases where

this option, but their primary option is lethal injection. States like Nebraska, ruled out that it was an unusual form of punishment. Other states like Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,

row it cost $90,000 per a prisoner per year (cost). Death penalty is taking taxpayers money and