Views On Capital Punishment In The United States

Once said by author Robert A, Heinlein, he provides a sense of strong belief in the United States capital punishment: “The idea that ‘violence doesn't solve anything’ is a historically untrue and immoral doctrine. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. People that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms" (qtd.in prodpquotes). Capital Punishment has been around for a long time, but the ways of punishment has been narrowed down to just one way. Lethal injection is how the capital puts down these dangerous criminals, this punishment is not cruel and unusual. Author Liz Homans writes about controversial

Death penalty is a type punishment sentence that is giving to a person who commits a serious crime, and is put to death. If somebody knew that their actions would lead to death, it could possibly make them rethink their crime. Writer Evelle, Younger wrote the article Capital Punishment: The people's mandate, which talks about people's point of views on capital punishment: “The death penalty will save lives, so I’d like to have it restored as soon as possible.” There will always be a few mistakes in a court ruling, and sometimes the innocent inmates do not get lucky, but taking chances to save other people in this country is a chance a lot of judges are willing to take. Today America has high power technology that prevents innocent people going to the death row let alone jail. Now that America has this technology it will be easier to find the person responsible and punish them. If people know that the Federal Bureau has this type of technology to find the person responsible, then people will reconsider committing the hanish crime. The author emphasizes the reasoning behind using a deterrent in criminal cases, “The reasoning is simple, if the costs of doing something become too high, people will change their behavior to avoid those costs. If the cost reduces people will indulge in that behavior once more” (listland.com). If someone has a reason for not committing a crime, then the crime rate will decrease,

It is a burden because the state could be using this money for more important stuff like feeding homeless, new businesses, parks. On the website “listland”, they provide statistical evidence in order to prove that the United states pay more for jail time then capital punishment: “A quick analysis of the cost of detention for life without parole show that detention will cost approximately $34,000 per year for an average of 50 years. The cost of trial and appeals will come in at about $75,000. Assuming a cost increase of a conservative 2% per annum the costs come in at over $3 million for 50 years detention, rising to $5.5 million if a 4% cost increase is assumed. While the costs of death row are higher coming in at almost double the cost of life incarceration or about $60,000 these costs are not typically borne for anywhere near as long, an average of just 6 years.” Yes, death penalty does cost a lot of money, but taxpayers are paying a lot more for inmates who are in prison for life. The state has to pay for every year these prisoners are in jail, death penalty price is slimmer because the state is only paying for 3 thing; injection, court ruling, and jail cell. Now, both ways costs a lot of money, but here's a statistic of how much jail time costs: “Cases without the death penalty cost $740,000, while cases where the death penalty is sought cost $1.26 million.