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Argumentos en Contra de La Pena de Muerte.
Desde que la historia ha sido grabada, la pena de muerte ha sido una manera de castigar los peores crímenes. En 36 estados americanos, la pena de muerte todavía es utilizada. Hay dos métodos que mas se usan en los estados unidos, y esos son inyección letal y electrocución. Puede ser que los criminales condenados a la pena de muerte sean personas terribles y que deben ser castigados por sus crimines (comúnmente homicidio). Pero pregunto que derecho tiene un ser humano de decidir que otro ser humano debe ser condenado a la muerte? La pena de la muerte debe ser abolido como castigo criminal en los estados unidos, y este ensayo explicara porque.
La primera razón, y posiblemente las mas importante para el publico americano es el costo. Mucha gente cree que la pena de muerte es mas barata que lo que se gasta en una cárcel, pero en realidad este no es el caso. La pena de muerte es mucho más cara que la vida sin libertad condicional en la cárcel, debido al hecho que la Constitución requiere de un proceso judicial largo y complejo para los casos de pena capital. Este proceso es necesario para asegurar que los hombres y mujeres inocentes no son ejecutados por crímenes que no cometieron, y aun con estas protecciones el riesgo de ejecutar a una persona inocente no pueden ser eliminados por completo. Según Amnestyinternational.com, un solo caso de pena capital suele ser entre 1 millon-3millones de dólares por persona. A cambio para mantener una persona presa sin la posibilidad de libertad suele costar entre 90,000 y 100,000 dólares por persona ("Death Penalty Cost"). También se debe de tomar en cuenta que la mayoría de personas que son condenadas a la pena de muerte pueden ser encarcelados por var...

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...roceso con muchos defectos, y no ayuda ni a la sociedad ni a las familias de victimas. Se puede decir que la pena de muerte es la forma más esena la hipocresía estatal; matamos a las personas que matan a la gente para demostrar que el asesinato es malo. Esta es la contradicción en la política que confunde a muchas personas y por estas razones la pena de muerte debe ser abolida como castigo criminal.

Works Cited

1. "Stop the Death Penalty ." Death Penalty Focus. N.p., n.d. Web. 3 Apr 2014. <. www.deathpenalty.org/section.php?id=24>.

2. "Death Penalty Cost." Amnestyusa.org. Amnesty International. Web. 3 Apr 2014. .

3. "Death Penalty Facts ." Amnestyusa.org. Amnesty International, n.d. Web. 3 Apr 2014. .

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