ife is cheaper than to execute him because a lot extra funds are needed to investigate, prosecute, and appeal capital cases. The spending of huge amount on execution of Capital Punishment is shameful and a big waste. It is disrespectful and immoral too. In Florida, " they spend about 3.2 million on each death row inmate compared to about $535,000 for an average of 40 years for each prisoner sentenced to life"(Bender 136). I believe that if we exchange the Capital Punishment for life in prison with no parole we will save a lot of money.Capital Punishment cheapens the value of human life because it does not give chance to the criminal to improve their life. Capital Punishment in fact increases the danger of repetition. According to some critics of Capital Punishment, life sentence is actually a harsher penalty for murder than death" (Bender 478). Capital Punishment sends a message to the society that human life no longer deserves respect. The one who created life is the only authority to take it; we do not reserve the right to destroy any creation of the almighty. We can only try to preserve it. So our effort should be to mould a criminal into a good person, and not destroy it. Moreover, statistical confirm that racism exists in the Capital Punishment. Between 1930 and 1976, 455 men were executed for rape, of which 405 (or 90 percent) were blacks. A higher percent of the more often executed than that were executed were juveniles; and blacks were blacks whites without having their conviction reviewed by any higher courts (Bedau 83). Thus more black people are likely to receive the Capital Punishment than white people who may have committed the same crimes. Racism discrimination is generally noticed in case of capital punishment. Racial biased was gun of the ground on which the Supreme Court relied in Furman in ruling the death penalty unconstitutional. Many nations have followed the suit and have eliminated the clauses relating to death p...
