According to the Death Penalty Information Center Website, as of July 1, 2017, there were 2,817 prisoners on Death Row in the United States. Some people believe that the death penalty is a good way to deal with violent criminals who have taken lives. However, others say the death penalty is unnecessary, such as in the article “The Facts: 13 Reasons to Oppose the Death Penalty” and how there is an alternative to help and make those people lives get better. I believe we should get rid of the death penalty because The death penalty puts innocent lives at risk, Race, and place determine who lives and who dies, and No civilians job description should include killing another person.
The death penalty puts innocent lives at risk because our economy and government accuse people of doing the thing they have not done. Like In 1993, Benavides was sentenced to death for a crime he did
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Furthermore, as of October 2002, 12 people have been executed where the defendant was white and the murder victim black, compared with 178 black defendants executed for murders with white victims.” This proves that race has an impact on who dies and lives in jail/court. Back in the late 1990s, white police officers would make up things that black people would not do like, for instance, an African American is walking across the street on the crosswalk and getting shot or sentenced to jail for doing nothing bad. When people are sentenced to death row ill for being convicted of killing another person that is white, but when a white person kills a black person they are let off the hook eraser. It is incredibly racist and messed up, but if we get rid of the death penalty. We can help those people out it the hard times and give all murders the same testing no matter what