Sister Helen Prejean, the writer of the biographical account “Dead Men Walking”, advocates strongly for the abolition of the death penalty. The non-fiction work is based on his experience being the spiritual advisor of Sonnier and other inmates on death row. Sister Helen believes if people knew the truth about executions, they would oppose them. In her book, she openly opposes the death penalty. She believes that death penalty is immoral as it is a mental torture, it doesn’t really work out as a deterrent and it costs more than life imprisonment. However, the death penalty still exists as the great nation has over 70 percent of Americans favor execution. There are many articles and options against her. In this article, I am going to list the …show more content…
In both Sister Helen Prejean’s article and interview, she points out that the death penalty costs more than life imprisonment. As most the opponents present, as fact, that the cost of the death penalty is so expensive which is up to 2 million dollars that we must choose life without parole at a cost of 1 million dollars for 50years. Predictably, these pronouncements may be entirely wrong. JFA (Justice for All) estimates that life without parole cases will cost 1.2 million dollars to 3.6 million dollars more than equivalent death penalty cases. There also appears to be no question that, over time, equivalent life without parole cases are much more expensive than death penalty cases. There has long been discussed that whether a person’s race affect the likelihood of him/her receiving the Death penalty. As Roger Clegg, JD, general Counsel at the Center for Equal Opportunity, wrote in his article “The color of Death: Does the Death Penalty Discriminate?”, “The fact that blacks and Hispanics are charged with capital crimes out of proportions tie their numbers in the general population may simply mean that blacks and Hispanics commit capital crimes out of proportion to their numbers. And, of course, they do. Randall Kennedy, an African-American Harvard Law School professor, and Professor Michael Tonry, a leading liberal expert on sentencing, acknowledge the high rate of black street crime. The fact is that capital criminals don’t like America, and no one should expect them to. No one is surprised to find more men than women in this class. Nor is it a shock to find that this group contains more twenty-year-olds than septuagenarians. And if – as the left tirelessly maintains – poverty breeds crime, and if – as it tiresomely maintains – the poor are disproportionately denies –