When it comes to capitol punishment I am strongly against it. I am against it because it is the killing of another human. Capitol punishment does not solve anything. When a murder kills someone the police want to take them to jail, and put them on death row. Once you get put on death row they do everything in their power to put you to death as fast as they can. Capitol punishment to me is just the killing of people. You put a murder on death row just so that the warden can kill them. Instead of just letting them sit in jail and think about the murder that they committed.
In the year 1999, thirty states and the Federal prison system held three thousand five hundred and twenty seven prisoners under sentence of death. In 1999 three hundred and twenty five Hispanic inmates under sentence of death accounted for ten percent of inmates with a known ethnicity. The youngest inmate on death row was seventeen in 1999, and was put to death at the age of eighteen. (Capitol Punishment, 1999).......
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