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The Pros And Cons Of Death Penalty

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As of July 2017, there were 2,817 Death Row inmates (Death Penalty Information Center, 2018). These individuals have been convicted of a crime so heinous that the sentence was death. Confined to a small cell for 23 hours of a day, they wait for execution (McCray, 2017). However, for 40% of these individuals the wait has been over 20 years (McCray, 2017). This means that the families of the victims are also waiting over 20 years for closure. The mandatory legal processes designed to prevent innocent individuals from being executed is a long, cumbersome, and expensive process. Death row spending in California from 1978-2011 was $4 Billion, and the execution tally is 13 inmates, that is over 300 million each (Pilkington, 2011). But even with
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