udent, was educated of these numbers he commented: “No *censored*. It really costs that much to kill someone? I always thought that we had the death penalty because it was cheaper and faster.” The only way to make the death penalty a “better buy” than life imprisonment is to weaken the court system and the length of appeals, which are the defendants (and your) only protection against the wrongdoings of the law. The amount of money the nation would save would be at the price of justice. It is not economically feasible to keep Capital Punishment in the U.S. Court System since the price of execution is too high.The argument most often cited in support of capital punishment is that the threat of executions deters capital crimes more effectively than imprisonment. This claim is possible but the facts do not support it. Capital punishment could be an effective deterrent if it was consistently and promptly employed; but it can not be administered to meet these conditions. The process can be sped up, at the price of abandoning the procedural safeguards and constitutional rights of suspects, defendants, and convicts, with the high risk of convicting the wrong person and executing the innocent. After seeing some of the alarming statistics, lawyer Rob Lovett stated: “most of the time the people who commit these hanious crimes are too mentally disturbed to even care about the consequences of their actions. The death penalty doesn’t scare them into reconsidering their plans.” Studies show that death penalty states have higher crime rates than life imprisonment states. During the 1980’s, death penalty states averaged an annual rate of 7.5 criminal homicides per 100,000 of population; abolition states averaged a rate on 7.4. States should not fear the sudden and serious changes in the curve of crime if they loosen they’re reliance on the death penalty. The only way for the death penalty to become ...
