When it comes to the death penalty, most people instantly hesitate when they are asked if they support it or not, and for several very good reasons, the biggest of which is a question of morality. There are some people who do not know what the death penalty is though or they just do not have a good understanding because there is a large grey area when it comes to the rules surrounding it. But simply put, the death penalty is the execution of a person convicted of a capital crime. But it is very hard to say what is a bad enough crime to result in the death penalty.
As of now, there are thirty-one states that allow it, some examples include Texas, Mississippi, and Colorado but there are still nineteen states that do not allow any kind of execution. But I believe the death penalty should be legal as a punishment to capital crimes
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Housing an inmate in a maximum security prison could cost the taxpayers upwards of sixty-two thousand dollars per year (Jacob, McCleland. 2012). Most people do not like the thought of having to pay for these criminal’s imprisonment but they do not have any choice. Once one of these felon commits a crime this bad, they get to spend the rest of their life using the taxpayer’s money to sit behind bars. One of the pros of the death penalty is that it generally costs far less than housing an inmate for the rest of their life. According to an article written on Vice, one of the common methods of execution, the electric chair, costs only two hundred and seventeen dollars per person (Siclen, Allison. 2012). This is of course a far cheaper method if the criminal were to be spending their whole life in prison anyways. Many prisons have different prices when it comes to housing inmates but when it comes down to it, execution is far cheaper almost all of the time, and for this reason the death penalty would be better for the