told me that people made her feel like she was betraying her son because she did not want to kill the personwho murdered him (Frame 50). This creates a dilemma of morality. If anything, by forcing families to seek the death penalty, their own consciences will be burdened by the death of the killer. Furthermore, killing him will not bring back your son (Grisham 402).It will lesson prison costs. A vast misconception concerning the death penalty is that it saves society the costs of keeping inmates imprisoned for long periods. In the act of preserving due process of justice, the court appeals involved with the death penalty become a long, drawn-out and very expensive process. Criminal justice process expenses, trial court costs, appellate and post-conviction costs, and prison costs perhaps includingyears served on death row awaiting execution... all told, the extra cost per death penalty imposed in over a quarter million dollars, and per execution exceeds two million (Cavanagh 4). In earlier times--when capital punishment was common, the value of life was less, and societies were more barbaric--capital punishment was probably quite acceptable. However, in todays society, which is becoming ever more increasingly humanitarian, and individual rights and due process of justice are held in higher accord, the death penalty is becoming an unrealistic form of punishment. Also, with the ever present possibility of mistaken execution, there will remain the question of innocence of those put to death. Finally, man is not a divine being. He does not have the right to inflict mortal punishment in the name of societys welfare, when there are suitable substitutes that require fewer resources....
