as increased the murders in this country. Putting someone to death is not a way to make criminals realize what they have done wrong. The death penalty is just an easy way out of whatever crime you have committed. Capital Punishment is no longer an effective way of punishing criminals. The only people that the death penalty is affecting are the millions of taxpayers who work hard for their money. Their money is being spent on a policy that is no longer effective.The Death Penalty is a policy that is old and out-dated. If the original implementation of this policy was to deter crime then it has obviously lost its affect on criminals in our country. The statistics show that not only does the death penalty not deter crime, but that it actually increases it. The statistics also show that the citizens of the United States spend too much money on these criminals just so their sorry, miserable lives can end. America could spend those millions of dollars trying to help children grow up and realize that they can do something with their lives and that crime is not the way, but instead the United States are wasting money on death row inmates. Capital Punishment is a policy that is supposed to punish the criminals and not the innocent. This policy is not affecting the criminals; it is only affecting the innocent taxpayers who are paying millions of dollars to support a policy that does not work. Their money is supposed to be buying a safer life for themselves, but because Capital Punishment is not a deterrent for crime, their streets are even more dangerous because of this policy....
