Death Penalty Many prisoners are put in on death row each year. Death Row has been around for along time to punish prisoners for the bad crimes that they have committed in the past. Reasons why I don’t support the Death Penalty would be it costs a lot in the state of California the state pays one point twenty six million dollars and that’s a lot of money wasted and if you follow in Christ he made a commandment it says “You Shall Not Kill” because it wrong to execute another. It costs a lot of money to provide for prisoners. The government wastes one point twenty six million order the lethal injection for all the prisoners on death row, but the bad thing is that it costs ninety thousand more each year. For all of this I think it a total waste of money that could actually be used for something else like fund schools or at least be used to supply the military with weapons and supplies. Another reason is why does another person kill another why not just give them lots of community service and lock them up for a long time. This is why I think the Death Penalty is a waste of money and I also think that for this exact reason slavery should be abolished. …show more content…
There was this man named Damien Echols he was imprisoned for eighteen years. The reason he was put on death row was because people accused him of killing three little boys. They accused him because he looked gothic. A question I ask would be why would you accuse somebody just of how they look? Luckily he was found not guilty and he was set free. If you want to learn more about him he wrote a book about his experience(theguardian.com). On occasion people are wrongly accused and end up either losing years of their life while serving on death row, or they end up losing their life by being