Justice is Not Served
Capital punishment is one of today's hottest issues in United States society. The United States is one out of the few seventy-three countries in the world that still use this barbaric way of punishing it's citizens. The death penalty is sending the wrong message to criminals and has not been effecting criminal's decisions to commit murder. Capital punishment is the wrong way to punish American criminals.
One of the issues concerning the death penalty is economic funding. Many citizens are under the impression that the death penalty saves money for the United States. In all truthfulness, capital punishment costs citizens the same amount if not more than life sentenced prisoners. Between the appeals and funding them while on death row, capital punishment does nothing to help the economy.
"If there were ever any validity to the deterrence argument, it is negated by the endless appeals, delays, technicalities, and retrials that keep persons......
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