Opposing Views On Capital Punishment

“Capital punishment is literally a life-and-death issue. Sometimes called the death penalty, it is the execution of people who have been found guilty of offenses considered to be capital crimes” (Capital Punishment, Opposing Viewpoints Online Collection, 2016). “I don't agree with capital punishment as it is now, because too often mistakes are made. But I think that if you eliminate the mistakes, then there are times when it is justified” (Jeff Lindsay). In a certain point of view you see as you look at it innocent people die from death penalty, capital punishment itself is essentially showing what they don’t want people to do, and the amount of money used towards it is just too much. In addition to, it just goes against the U.S Constitution;

Do they even test the evidence before proceeding with the execution? “For example, Carlos DeLuna was executed in 1989 for the 1983 murder of Wanda Lopez in Corpus Christi, Texas. The only eyewitness to the crime identified DeLuna while he was sitting in the back of a police car parked in a dimly lit lot in front of the crime scene. There was no blood, DNA evidence, or fingerprints 99linking DeLuna to the crime. The actual murderer was a man named Carlos Hernandez, a violent criminal who [was] very similar in appearance [to] DeLuna.” (The Death Penalty Is a Flawed Form of Punishment, Death Penalty, 2015). When researching this issue, you see how unreliable the justice system is, due to the question of how oneself can base who you think the criminal is just by an eyewitness’ statement. Even though this was from about 30 years ago, it still shows that they need to take that mistake and learn from

There are many options more low-priced to this process then anything. If the criminals have rendered something major, then they can place them in for an execution. A second option can be to put them in life in prison since it is more reasonable (price-wise). “However, all of the studies conclude that the death penalty system is far more expensive than an alternative system in which the maximum sentence is life in prison” (The Death Penalty Is Too Costly for Society, Death Penalty, 2015). To illustrate, “In 2008, the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice released an exhaustive report on the state's capital punishment system. The report found that the state was spending $137 million per year on the death penalty. The Commission estimated a comparable system that sentenced the same inmates to a maximum punishment of life without parole would cost only $11.5 million per year” (The Death Penalty Is Too Costly for Society, Death Penalty,