Pro Death Penalty Persuasive Essay

“The death penalty was created in the Eighteenth Century B.C. in the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon, which codified the death penalty for 25 different crimes”(“Introduction to the Death Penalty”), just to name a few, the crimes were murder, rape, and burglary. They punished their suspects by beating them to death, crucifixion, drowning or burning them alive. The death penalty went way back and it is still active to day in many states if the United States of America. Now today we punish our suspects by lethal injection, electrocution or sentence to die in prison. The government now is spending more than 100 millions dollars on the death penalty; now think about California the state that has the most inmates on the death row. “Cases without the death penalty cost $740,000, while cases where the death penalty is sought cost $1.26 million. Maintaining each death row prisoner costs taxpayers $90,000 more per year than a prisoner in general population.” (“Death Penalty Information Center”) So in California they are spending at least 900 million to these inmates to basically die, I do not support the death penalty because it is too much money and it is applied at random times.

One was sentenced to death. The two others, one of whom was found guilty of four murders, are not on death row.” If the death penalty were eliminated then many states that has not yet made it illegal will save millions of dollars especially California. In California they have to shut down some businesses or public schools to pay for the inmates that is on death row. Also, United States of America will be saving money as well, which can aid them into paying of their deficit. Recently, Maryland has made the death penalty illegal to a 27-20 vote now they are saving at least 7 million dollars for each inmate that was on the death