I am against capital punishment for many reasons. Capital punishment remains in the United States, even though it has been abolished in many of the other first world countries of the world. The death penalty needs to be eliminated because it is proven to not be a deterrent to crime, it has a very high cost, the guilt of a victim can never be one hundred percent determined, and it is cruel and unusual, directly violating eighth amendment.
Capital punishment is at a very high cost. According to a study from the state of Kansas, capital trials cost, on average, 70% more the non-capital cases. It was determined that the average cost for a capital case was about 1.26 million dollars opposed to $740,000 for a case not involving the death penalty. Keep in mind, this is just in Kansas. In North Carolina, since 1976, over one billion dollars have been used in death penalty related cases, according to a study from Duke University in May of 1993. These costs are astounding. These......
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