Death Penalty: To Die Or Not To Die

To Die Or Not to Die What should happen to people that commit heinous crimes? The death penalty was carried out on 23 people in 2017. The death penalty has been around since the “Eighteenth Century B.C. in the Code of Hammurabi of Babylon” (“Part I” 1). The death penalty has been used widely and for a variety of reasons. Some countries had more effect on the United States when it came to using the death penalty; “Britain influenced the United States’ use of the death penalty more than any other country” (“Part I” 1). The first execution using the death penalty in the United States was delivered to “Captain George Kendall in the Jamestown colony of Virginia in 1608” ( “Part I” 1). He was executed for spying.
When the Nineteenth Century started, the abolitionist movement, or abolishing of slave labor, began to take over in the northeast. This led to more state penitentiaries being built and less capital crimes being carried out (“Part I” 1). Pennsylvania was the first state to move the capital crimes punishment out of the eye of the public and began carrying it out in “correctional facilities” (Part I” 1); they no longer had public executions. …show more content…
Life without parole costs more than execution by the capital crimes punishment. Greengarbageblogadmin states in their article, “death penalty costs government… the lives of incarcerated individuals serving life.” When a prisoners ruling is life in prison without parole means they require everything to be paid for them by taxpayers’ money. The death penalty provides a cheaper way to punish criminals rather than locking them away; when a prisoner is locked away, other people must pay for their health care, food, and other necessities they may need. The average cost for a prisoner in prison for one year is $31,286. The economical view of the conflict shows that despite a short term high price, it is cheaper in the long