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money spent on death row prisoners can be used towards programs that can help the victims
families cope or for methods of prevention of crime. The death penalty is meant to keep
criminals out of society but life sentences without parole can serve the same purpose and the
money saved can be put towards actually helping society.
The entire purpose of the death penalty is to deter crime and scare criminals from
committing crimes. Yet when interviewed criminals admit that while committing these terrible
crimes they did not once think of the possibility of receiving the death penalty. States without the
death penalty have a lower murder rate. That fact proves that even though the death penalty is a
possible sentence for criminals it will not stop them from committing crimes. If criminals are not
being deterred from crimes than endless amounts of time and money is being used to simply kill
without a reason.
I personally think that the death penalty is wrong because it is simply inhumane. I think
the dragged out process of killing a criminal also drags out the victims familys pain. It prolongs
suffering and the families cannot put the events behind them because the criminals do not get a
set punishment for years. The quote Two wrongs dont make a right, sums up my exact view
on capital punishment. If killing a human results in killing another human then arent we
promoting that killing is okay? I dont think anyone can be the judge of when a person lives or
dies.
My hope is that one-day the death penalty can be put to rest and that our prisons will be
advanced enough to safely keep criminals away from society. I believe that the criminal justice
system will one day see that the death penalty is not only wrong but that there are alternative
ways to deter crime. The killing of anyone is wrong no matter the situation.
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Reference Page
Innocence and the Death Penalty. (2011, September 19). Retrieved November 10, 2014.
Dieter, R. (2014, February 23). The High Cost of the Death Penalty. Retrieved December 5,
2014, from http://www.fnsa.org/v1n1/dieter1.html