Replying to Death Penalty

i'm totaly against it for many reasons

1. it costs more to put a person on death row then to sentnce them to life
sorces:
A study by Indiana's Criminal Law Study Commission found that the total costs of the death penalty exceed the complete costs of life without parole sentences by about 38%, assuming that 20% of death sentences are overturned and resentenced to life. (Indiana Criminal Law Study Commission, January 10, 2002)
The most comprehensive study in the country found that the death penalty costs North Carolina $2.16 million per execution over the costs of a non-death penalty murder case with a sentence of imprisonment for life (Duke University, May 1993.) On a national basis, these figures translate to an extra cost of over $1 billion dollars spent since 1976 on the death penalty. The study,'The Costs of Processing Murder Cases in North Carolina' is available on line at www-pps.aas.duke.edu/people/faculty/cook/comnc.pdf
Enforcing the death penalty costs Florida $51 million a year above and beyond what it would cost to punish all first-degree murderers with life in prison without parole, according to estimates by the Palm Beach Post. Based on the 44 executions Florida has carried out since 1976, that amounts to a cost of $24 million for each execution. (Palm Beach Post, January 4, 2000)
The death penalty costs California $90 million annually beyond the ordinary costs of the justice system - $78 million of that total in incurred at the trial level (Sacramento Bee, March 18, 1988). In January 2003, despite a budge deficit, Governor Gray Davis proposed building a new $220 million state of the art death row. (New York times, January 14, 2003)
Florida spent an estimated $57 million on the death penalty from 1973 to 1988 to achieve 18 executions - that is an average of $3.2 million per execution. (Miami Herald, July 10, 1988).
In Texas, a death penalty case costs an average of $2.3 million, about three times the cost of imprisoning someone in a single cell at the highest security level for 40 years. (Dallas Morning News, March 8, 1992).

2. it doesn't work as a deterrence
sorce:
Authors John Sorenson, Robert Wrinkle, Victoria Brewer, and James Marquart examined executions in Texas between 1984 and 1997. They speculated that if a deterrent effect were to exist, it would be found in Texas because of the high number of death sentences and executions within the state. Using patterns in executions across the study period and the relatively steady rate of murders in Texas, the authors found no evidence of a deterrent effect. The study concluded that the number of executions was unrelated to murder rates in general, and that the number of executions was unrelated to felony rates. (45 Crime and Delinquency 481-93 (1999)).

3.scence 1973, 107 inocent people have been put on death row and later found inocent
sorce:
Since 1973, 107 people in 25 states have been released from death row with evidence of their innocence. (Latest release, Rudolph Holton, January 24, 2003)

4. is the person really going to cause more harm in your life if they live in a cell for the rest of their life? i would be all for solitary confinment for life over killing them. why should we lower ourselves to a killers level to punish someone for a crime? if you kill a killer then you are no better then them. also what if a inocent person is put to death? i think that the judge, jury, witnesses, basicly everyone involved in sentencing this inocent person to death should then also be put to death, an eye for a eye if you want. so why not just not have this problem and just get rid of the death penality and use other means of punishment

.:[Tyler]:.

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