The death penalty should be abolished in America. It can be discriminatory, in fact, statistics show that forty percent of death row inmates are African-American. Minority groups are more likely to receive the death penalty than white people, especially if they committed a crime against a white person. Usually, minority peoples have a harder time being able to afford effective lawyers and psychiatrists. There is a threat of wrongful conviction too. Due to the development of DNA testing, as of May 2007, some fifteen death-row inmates have been freed before they were put to death for a crime they did not commit. If the United States keeps the death penalty, it might be viewed in a negative way from countries worldwide. Most of the nations that