What Is The Death Penalty Inhumane

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

Financial costs to taxpayers of capital punishment is more than keeping someone in prison for life. “Most people don't realize that carrying out one’s death sentence costs 2-5 more times more that keeping that same criminal in prison for the rest of his life....It is not unusual for a prisoner to be on death row for 15-20 years.” It is estimated that a capital case resulting in execution costs $3-4 million, whereas the typical cost of keeping someone in prison for life is $700-740,000. "One of the most common misperceptions about the death penalty is the notion that the death penalty saves money because executed defendants no longer have to be cared for at the state's expense. If the costs of the death penalty were to be measured at the time of an execution, that might indeed be true. But as every prosecutor, defense attorney, and judge knows, the costs of a capital case begin long before the sentence is carried out. Experienced prosecutors and defense attorneys must be assigned and begin a long period of investigation and pre-trial

Punishment by death for people convicted of certain crimes also known as the death penalty is unethical. There are currently 31 states including New Hampshire, in the U.S. with the death penalty and 19 states without. The death penalty is immoral and violates human rights. In some parts of the United States we have a biased criminal justice system which can lead to false an unlawful sentence to death. The death penalty also has irreversible outcomes if proven innocent, it doesn’t lower crime rates, and it is very expensive. The death penalty is just contributing to the cycle of violence, retribution is not the answer.

     The death penalty is absolutely outrageous. There is no real reason that the government should feel that it has the right to execute people. Capital punishment is murder just as much as the people being executed murdered. The is no need for the death penalty and it needs to

The cost to execute someone is 5x times more than keeping them in jail. Cases without the death penalty cost roughly about $740,000 depending on the situation, while cases with the death penalty cost roughly $1.26 million. Maintaining each death row prisoners cost taxpayers $90,000 more per year than a prisoner in general population. Another controversy is executing innocent people. It’s a big problem that some cases have to deal with killing an innocent person who didn’t commit the crime. An investigation by the NAACP Legal Defense and Education fund has uncovered evidence that Larry Griffin may have been innocent of the crime by the state of Missouri on June 21,1995. Griffin maintained his innocent until his death, investigators say his case is the strongest demonstration yet on executing a innocent man. There's been many controversies because there are two points of view on the death penalty, you have people who support it and then people who don’t support. The Aurora Theater shooter conviction has been a huge controversy because he killed 12 and wounded 70 and he got sentenced to one life term for each person he killed plus 3,318 years for the attempted murders. Jury couldn't decide if he should get the death

Death Penalty Throughout mankind has been using the death penalty as a form of punishment. Many people argue with this type of punishment because they believe in an eye for an eye. Many people that it is okay to murder a human being due to them having killed an individual over time. There have been many cases that have proven that they death penalty violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment, being very expensive, and innocent lives are convicted.

Also, the cost of the death penalty is really high, the cost of keeping someone in jail for life which will cost 600,000 per prisoner and just for one person to be put to death is would cost 2.3 million per prisoner. That is not a logical reason to kill someone then to keep them alive because the cost is three time less to keep a person alive in jail for life then to kill

The Death Penalty also known as the capital punishment is a procedure in which states executes a person for a crime he or her has committed it is normally used for very big crimes like treason against the state or crimes against humanity, The Death Penalty it is inhumane and you are as worst as the person if you kill them for the crime they have done, this procedure should be abolished in all states and all around the world.(Davis-245-248)

But, as mentioned earlier, in 2012, only 39 inmates were executed. The other 3,000+ stayed on death row. “Death penalty inmates typically spend over a decade awaiting execution” (deathpenaltyinfo.org). Gary Alvord, who was sentenced to death in 1974, spent nearly 40 years on death row, only to die of a brain tumor in May of 2013 (deathpenaltyinfo.org). In a study done by Vera Institute, it shows that “the average per-inmate cost was $31,286, and the forty states surveyed spent $39 billion maintaining prisons in 2010” (vera.org). This is not justice. Inmates are sitting on death row for decades, wasting taxpayers money and time.

The financial aspect is one of the more discussed topics surrounding the death penalty. “Each execution can cost between $2.5 million and $5 million.” (Fagan 1). Compared to the millions of dollars it takes to execute a single to person to the more affordable cost of housing a prisoner of a range of $20,000-$40,000 a year; we as a society could punish these people for their crimes without killing and for less money.(Hirby 1). The cost for a non-death penalty trial is in the area of $250,000 whereas a trial concerning the death penalty will be in the area of about $1.7 million (Timberman). According to Sarah Timberman from death penalty.org “California has had to spend more than $4 billion on capital punishment alone since it was reinstated in the year 1978 (this is about $308 million for each of the 13 executions carried out)”. On top of the $308 million per trial, there is an additional cost of $184 million for all of the trials including multiple appeals, legal representation for the accused and extra security during the entire trial.

With all of the special lawyers, court dates, prison cells and maintenance, a death penalty case can cost millions of dollars. Like a lot of things, capital punishment is paid for with tax dollars. Cases with the death penalty can cost upwards of 1.7 million dollars while cases without it are usually about 740,000 dollars. Maintaining death row prisoners can also bring costs up immensely. One of the most severe instances of these high costs is California. Every year it costs California 180 million dollars more to maintain death row prisoners than it does to maintain LWOP prisoners. They have put thirteen people to death from 1973 until now, and each case has cost 137 million dollars. A 2011 study showed that California has spent four billion dollars on capital punishment since 1976, and that has only grown higher. This is only one of the horrendous examples of our tax dollars at work. Do we really want our hard earned money going towards the killing of what might be innocent

The death penalty is very costly in more ways than ever thought. One of the more obvious ways the death penalty is costs so much is paying for the prisoner. They are fed three times a day which costs money, as does the water used for them to bathe and brush their teeth. For one year to be properly housed it costs the county anywhere from 20,000 to 40,000 dollars, an average of 30,000 dollars a year (Hirby, 2015). If the inmate is waiting anywhere from 10-15 years, according to Madelyn Farfan a Torrington Police Department Detective who has been in service for thirteen years, to be officially put on death row that’s anywhere from 300,000- 450,000 dollars while waiting for a final verdict. These expenses are outrageous. The inmate is waiting this extensive amount of time when they could have already served a full sentence of someone who previously had a clean record before committing a murder. It is insane that all this money is being used towards a killer and will just keep multiplying as long as the evidence against or for the defendant keeps accumulating. The

Capital Punishment In the United States Of America people who are known to be dangerous criminals are often sentenced to something called the death penalty . This is a serious act that is put in place to kill convicts. In my option. the death penalty is a unreasonable way to

Some of those who support the death penalty base their argument on the fact that it is a cost-effective alternative to life imprisonment. However, it may be more costly to execute an inmate than to have that person serve a life sentence (Amnesty International, 1987). A 1982 study in New York concluded that the average capital murder trial and the first stage of appeals costs U.S. tax-payers 1.8 million dollars (Bohm, 1987). It is estimated that this is less than it would cost to incarcerate someone for one hundred years. Other sources estimate that it can cost up to 2.2 million dollars to obtain and carry out a death sentence (Johnson, 1990). The principal factor in this cost is the appeals process, which lasts an average of ten years and is deemed necessary to reduce the likelihood of the execution of an innocent person.

The death penalty is very costly to not only the government, but also society. The death penalty has no benefits at all and should be