The Death Penalty is Immoral

First-degree murder, treason, capital drug trafficking and, kidnapping resulting in death. These are some of the crimes punshiable by the death penalty. Instead of putting the criminal in jail for a lifetime, you kill him. For what? Statisitcs show that Homicide rates are actually higher in states and regions that have the death penalty than in those that don’t. The death penalty should be illegal because you don’t gain anything from it. The death penalty costs a lot of money than keeping him/her in jail for a lifetime. The death penalty is morally wrong, nobody should have that much power to choose life or death on a human being.

In some cases the legal system gets it wrong. In the USA 130 people have been released from death row, in the past 30 years. You know why, they were proven innocent by DNA evidence. Even though these people were found guilty “beyond a reasonable doubt.”Sadly, in some cases where the “criminal” is innocent, there is no DNA evidence available. So, as long as the death penalty is already in place, they are pretty much GUARANTEED to execute an innocent person.

Violent/Homicide crime rates are actually HIGHER in states that allow the death penalty. I honesty think that criminals take it as a challenge. 10 of the 12 states without the death penalty have homicide rates below the national average. FBI data show that while half the states with the death penalty have homicide rates above the national average. A state-by-state comparison found that in the last 20 years, the murder rate in states with the death penalty were 48 percent to 101 percent higher than the states without the death penalty.

Death is too good for the worst criminals. Let them wake up every day of their lives in prison and think about t...

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...The alternative doesn’t put anyone to death and gives someone a new chance at changing themselves and bettering themselves for a life behind bars.

In conclusion, the death penalty is wrong and should be abolished. There are alternatives to the death penalty, they cost less money and they save lives. Capital punishment (Death Penalty) does not teach any lesson and is pointless. Murder rates are higher in states that allow the death penalty than states that don’t. It’s a coward move and is 2 wrongs hat don’t make a right. Most of the time innocent people are dying for the price of 2.3 million dollars, what kind of country is this? Killing innocent citizens for making a mistake, when life in jail without parole is cheaper. The “criminals” should think about what they have done behind bars, make them pay the price for their actions instead of American tax payers.