Persuasive Essay On The Death Penalty

Creating a Brighter World For the Ones Living In It America’s focus, as a society, should be developing and growing as a whole; morally and physically. In order for a community to develop, there needs to be more funding directed towards programs that will further better our upcoming generations. In fact, those are the people we must rely on to push our society further. With California spending an estimated $90,000 dollars a year on a death row inmate, with roughly 670 inmates, taxpayers pay around $63.3 million to only house them annually; excluding the estimated additional cost of $184 million in legal fees, enhanced security within death row and capital trial fees (Death Penalty Focus); we limit the budget for providing services to educational

California should eliminate the death penalty and adopt life without possibility of parole so we can focus our funding on programs that will better our upcoming generations and society and reduce

Including the trial fees, jury selection and process of capital cases, it is a fact that it costs more; But what they point out is that LWOP will cost more in the long run. For example, LWOP supporters are realizing the need for health care, rehabilitation and mental institutes for aged inmates. In fact, According to capitalpunishmentuk.com in 2009, Kentucky is estimated to spend nearly twenty million dollars on health care for aged inmates sentenced to LWOP (Clark, R.). Not to mention, Kentucky has one of the nations smaller prison systems so it is easy to imagine what states such as California or Texas will require. LWOP opposer Gary D. Beatty states that if we can reduce the process of capital case trials, then executions using the death penalty will be a much cost efficient alternative, which by fact, is true (Beatty, Gary). The cost of the death penalty can be considerably lower than LWOP if we minimize the trial process and eliminate the need for health care of LWOP