Research statistics from September 2016, show that there are currently three thousand, one hundred and three people on death row awaiting lethal injection, including six people in the military and sixty-two from the federal government. California has the highest number of people awaiting death row, seven hundred and fourteen. From past statistic taken over time, the given rates show the probability of botched executions and innocence for the current three thousand people on death row. Out of three thousand people, nearly two hundred and seventeen executions will be botched, three hundred and ten death row inmates will be innocent and six hundred and ten death row inmates will be shown mercy ( CriminalJusticeDegreeHub.com). The American Medical …show more content…
Though thirty-three percent of people want death penalty, thirty- nine percent want life without parole plus restitution, thirteen percent wan life without parole and nine percent want life with parole (Death Penalty Information Center). When it comes down to the financial costs of death penalty, every state is different, there is not just one cost worldwide. In every state with death penalty, no matter what laws and regulations are applied, death penalty will always cost more than life in prison. It is proven that inmate who are poor are most likely get death penalty, because they cannot afford powerful defense attorneys. The financial costs of the taxpayers is a topic that is argued against death penalty because hard working civilians have to pay into the executions of criminals. For example, in Texas, it costs taxpayers an average of two point three million dollars per death penalty case, that is three times the cost of imprisoning someone for forty years in the highest security level. On average, California would save about one hundred and seventy million dollars if the state were to abolish death penalty. Since California reinstated death penalty in 1978, they have executed thirteen people, costing four billion dollars, that is three hundred and eight million dollars per execution ( St. John). So, when looking back at the statistics of the public opinions, the majority chose a punishment other than death penalty, part of that percentage could be against it because the prices are extremely high and cost more than life in prison, part could be religious beliefs, part could be race discrimination, part could believe it's unconstitutional and part could simply just not want it