d 65 executions. However, in the last year of the study, therewere 22,520 murders committed and 1 execution performed. The absence of control is clearlyshown.The death penalty is nonreversible. In case of a mistake, the executed prisoner cannotbe given another chance. Justice can miscarry. in the last hundred years there have been morethan 75 documented cases of wrongful conviction of criminal homicide. The death sentence wascarried out in eight of these cases: (Draper 47). Cook 4Undoubtedly many other cases of mistaken conviction and execution occurred and remain undocumented. A prisoner discovered to be blameless can be freed, but neither release norcompensation is possible for a corpse.The belief that execution costs less than imprisonment is false. The cost of theapparatus end maintenance of the procedures attending the death penalty, including death rowand the endless appeals and legal machinery, far outweighs the expense of maintaining in prisonthe tiny fraction of criminals who would otherwise be slain (Draper 46).Abolitionists believe that the offender should be required to compensate the victimsfamily with the offenders own income from employment or community service. There is nodoubt that someone can do more alive than dead. By working, the criminal inadvertently paysback society and also their victim and/or the victims family. There is no reason for the criminalto receive any compensation for his work. Money is no value in jail. Abolitionists consider the death penalty an insufficient form of punishment because it iscruel and inhumane, there is no proof that it prevents violent crime. It can be inflicted uponpeople innocent of any crime. The costly process of appealing gives the death penalty a heftyprice tag and with the death penalty, the chance to make repayment to the victim and/or thevictims family does not exist. The essence of the abolitionist perspective is,The death penaltyhas been a gross failure. ...
