al since 1973 at least 53 men were released from death row in seventeen US States due to significant evidence of their innocence and that some prisoners escaped execution by minutes but 23 were actually executed(73). Humans are not perfect. People can fall victim to false declarations, mistaken identification, community discrimination, and obligations. These are a few ways in which a person can be found guilty of a crime. Innocent people should not have to experience situations so terrifying, leading them to flip out and go insane. There is no reason for an innocent person to be killed for being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Judging by past experience, a substantial number of death row inmates are indeed innocent and there is high risk that some of them will be executed (56). Some people are judged by their past and not by the current crime they are indicated of committing and conformation contributed in that particular case. When this happens, a person is wrongly taken into custody for a crime he did not commit and now has to pay for it because of uninformed people who do not believe a person can change their bad way to good ways (Draper 45).It is too expensive to impose the Capital punishment. It prolongs the prosecution and in fact the justice. According to Bedau,Litigation costs - including the time of judges, prosecutors, public defenders, and court reporters, and the high costs of briefs - are all borne by the taxpayer. A 1982 study showed that were the Capital Punishment to be reintroduced in New York, the cost of the capital trial alone would be more than double the cost of life term in prison. (The case, par.50)It is less costly to imprison a criminal for the rest of his life than to execute him. This is because there are at least 28 procedures necessary in reaching a death sentence. The cost of proving the crime and investigation is borne by the state. The proposition to keep a criminal imprisoned for the rest of his l...
