Throughout the history of criminal punishment the death penalty has always been a major topic of interest. In America today the death penalty remains one of the top issues of concern. Are you for the death penalty or against it? That is the big question just like the discussion of abortion it is definitely a hot issue. In this paper I will proceed to tell you why I am against the death penalty.
There are many reasons to be against the death penalty. The first I feel an economically important issue for our struggling American economy is that it usually costs us more to kill a person through executions then it does to sentence a person to life in prison. It costs on an average of 2 million dollars to execute a person and roughly 500,000 to keep them in jail for life. That four times more then keeping them in prison. Also more prisons are being built all over the country so there will be room for the few of the inmates who would actually be executed.
Maybe the most important of all......
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