Pros And Cons Of The Death Penalty

Should people be brought to death after a crime? Personally, I think death penalty should be banned because it is expensive and people turn out to be innocent. Death Penalty is a decision by the judicial system that some should be put to death as a result of crimes or offenses committed. According to Wikipedia, “As of October 1, 2016, there were 2,902 death row inmates in the United States.” That is a lot of people that were sent to death penalty and there is many things behind it which you may of not known. Cost is a huge reason why death penalty is bad because it comes to a very high cost. According to Common Dreams, “ The death penalty is quite expensive and life imprisonment can be cheaper. Over the lifetime of a case, executing prisoners can be three times as expensive as life in prison, primarily due to the higher costs of capital punishment trials, automatic appeals, and the heightened security on death row with lower staff-to-prisoner ratios. Commuting all death sentences to life in prison would save hundreds of millions of dollars per year in the U.S. and many billions over the coming decades.”

With paying about 70,000 and more, it is not worth paying that much when you can put them in prison for years. Not only it is less expensive putting them in jail, you are giving them a second chance. When it says, “Over the lifetime of a case, executing prisoners can be three times as expensive as life in prison,” people on death penalty can be on it for several years. According to Wikipedia, “In 2010, a death row inmate waited an average of 178 months between sentencing and execution.” That is a long time, it is roughly 15 years being on death penalty. Just keeping a single person in a prison and maintaining them is 90,000. There should be another way to deal with punishment for