Should The Death Penalty Be Banned From The United States?

Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the cruelest form of punishment imposed today in the United States. The death penalty is applied for crimes like treason, terrorism, espionage, and federal murder. An argumentative issue that continues to be questioned by the American community. The death penalty should be banned from the United States. It is morally wrong, very expensive, and innocent people been convicted to the death penalty. Applying the death penalty would defeat the purpose, as it would be using violence to counter

violence.

The death penalty is immoral and hypocritical. Yes, killing someone is awful and a person who kills must have a harsh punishment, and pay for the crime committed. However, just because someone killed someone does not give the government the right to kill a human being. The death penalty violates the constitutional right of a human being. It is more of a brutal and cruel punishment against a living human being and can be labeled as one of the worst acts of human nature. A Special Adviser to the United Nations Secretary, quotes “In my view, the death penalty is morally, socially, and politically wrong. No national interest can justify human rights violations such as the death penalty or torture”. (Simonovic, 2016)

Death penalty cases are much more costly than other criminal cases and cost more than incarceration for life with no possibility of parole.

(Dieter, 1992). "It's 10 times more expensive to kill them than to keep them alive," though most Americans believe the opposite, said Donald McCartin, a former California jurist known as "The Hanging Judge of Orange County" for sending nine men to death row. (NBCNews.com, 2009) The death penalty is much more costly than life without parole, because the Constitution wants a long and complex legal process for capital cases. All money used to pay for the expense of a death penalty comes from taxpayers, and it cause a big economic

impact.
At least 4 percent of all people who get the death penalty are not guilty, if a new study is right. (Lopatto, 2014) There is no systematic method to define whether a criminal conviction is accurate, which would prevent the deaths of wrongly sentenced people. Because of this, very few false convictions are revealed in the justice system. (Lopatto, 2014) There are cases where prosecutors withheld exculpatory information. They knew that there were bogus pieces of evidence introduced. They knew that there were defendants who were forced into entering a guilty plea to a crime they had not committed.