Should the Death Penalty be banned ?

What is the death penalty? The death penalty is punishment by death, or also referred as a death sentence. The death penalty law dates as far back as the eighteenth century when King Hammaurabi of Babylon summoned the death penalty for twenty-five different crimes. During this time, the death penalty consisted of crucifixion, drowning, heating to death, burning alive, or even impalement. As time transitioned the way of death became more modern, transitioning from the electric chair, to a group of soldiers firing, known as the firing squad. Today in America, the death penalty is used predominately through the lethal injection, which consists of lethal quantities of ultrashort acting barbiturate combined with a paralytic agent until death is pronounced. Personally, the death penalty is a waste. According to “Death Penalty Information Center”, a new study in California revealed that the cost of the death penalty in the state has been over four billion since 1978 (Alarcon & Mitchell, 2011). Another study found that the death penalty costs North Carolina $2.16 million per execution over the costs of sentencing murderers to life imprisonment (Duke University, May 1993). Having the death penalty is costing the United States billions of dollars, which is a lot of money that could be saved elsewhere. While using money on the death penalty, it could go to more things such as law enforcement. I say this because if we had a better law enforcement then maybe they would have a better chance of catching the person the first time. Rather than having an innocent person killed over something he/she did not do. Cases that are not dealing with the death penalty cost $740,000 while cases dealing with the death penalty cost $1.26 million. When looking at the numbers you can just see how much money they are spending on one thing. Another fact from “Death Penalty Information Center”, tax payers pay ninety thousand dollars per year to maintain the death penalty. That much money should not be coming out of people taxes. There has been times where people has been charged with death row and did not commit the crime. Which means if they do not find the person who actually committed the crime they would have to die. If they do find out, it would be too late to do anything and that would be another 1.26 million wasted. Many people will argue that the death penalty is capital punishment given by the administration of a nation, to individuals who have perpetrated ghastly violations like murder, assault, and so forth. The death penalty has been a method for rebuffing individuals for ages. Despite the fact that there are a few nations that have nullified capital punishment from their law, there are still numerous which still practice the demonstration of slaughtering a man for crime. The death penalty is common in the US, Asian and Middle Eastern nations. A percentage of the methods for executing lawbreakers are hanging, shooting, electric shock and giving deadly infusions. In the event that a criminal is imprisoned, he might again carry out the same crime in the wake of being discharged from jail. Giving them the death penalty would ensure that the general public is protected from being assaulted by lawbreakers. It is by all accounts a suitable discipline for serial executioners and for the individuals who keep on carrying out wrongdoings even in the wake of serving detainment. Some believe that instead of announcing life imprisonment for the convicts, where they would have to live a futile life behind closed bars, it is better to kill them. It is said that imprisoning someone is more expensive than executing him. Rather than spending on a person who may again commit terrifying crime, it is better to put him to death. United States does not execute people based on their population counts but on the murders they commit. As African Americans represent forty-seven percent of murderers and white’s thirty-seven percent, we understand that whites are twice as likely to be executed for committing murder as African Americans counterparts. Furthermore, the Bureau of Justice Statistics says that whites sentenced to death are executed seventeen months more quickly than African Americans.

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http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/FactSheet.pdf