Death Row
The Death penalty has been an inseparable part of human society and its legal system for centuries, regarded as a necessary deterrent to heinous crimes and a way to rid the community from dangerous criminals. Although the death penalty intertwines with our country's history in many states including Nebraska the death penalty has been revoked, though in the upcoming ballot the choice to reinstate the death penalty can be made, though the question is should it really be? I think not, as it costs a lot, is thought to be immoral, and sometimes the crime does not match the punishment
An example of this can be found at (Levy) which explains that since 1973, 144 people on death row have been exonerated yet its possible that four percent of the people put to death by the sentence could have been innocent which is nearly double the number of people exonerated, which suggests what most people half feared for years, innocent people are dying. Although the process for someone to be charged and put to death had become better and more thorough than it used to be there is still the chance that information that might prove someone innocent of a crime could surface to late and that person be dead and gone, but not the case if that person was serving his or her time in prison. …show more content…
In the olden days it cost little to nothing to put someone to death, a tree provided by nature and a reusable rope. Today the cost in Nebraska to have the death penalty according to (Death penalty Information Center) it costs Nebraska taxpayers $14.6 million per year, yet in Nebraska the death penalty has not been used since 1997 found on (Lincoln Journal Star), that’s almost a decade of devoid for the death penalty, but during that decade it still costed nearly one hundred forty-six million to uphold the
The Death penalty has been an inseparable part of human society and its legal system for centuries, regarded as a necessary deterrent to heinous crimes and a way to rid the community from dangerous criminals. Although the death penalty intertwines with our country's history in many states including Nebraska the death penalty has been revoked, though in the upcoming ballot the choice to reinstate the death penalty can be made, though the question is should it really be? I think not, as it costs a lot, is thought to be immoral, and sometimes the crime does not match the punishment
An example of this can be found at (Levy) which explains that since 1973, 144 people on death row have been exonerated yet its possible that four percent of the people put to death by the sentence could have been innocent which is nearly double the number of people exonerated, which suggests what most people half feared for years, innocent people are dying. Although the process for someone to be charged and put to death had become better and more thorough than it used to be there is still the chance that information that might prove someone innocent of a crime could surface to late and that person be dead and gone, but not the case if that person was serving his or her time in prison. …show more content…
In the olden days it cost little to nothing to put someone to death, a tree provided by nature and a reusable rope. Today the cost in Nebraska to have the death penalty according to (Death penalty Information Center) it costs Nebraska taxpayers $14.6 million per year, yet in Nebraska the death penalty has not been used since 1997 found on (Lincoln Journal Star), that’s almost a decade of devoid for the death penalty, but during that decade it still costed nearly one hundred forty-six million to uphold the