Professor Peggy Lindsey
WRIT 1101
8 Oct 2014
Capital Punishment: Fair or Foul One of the hottest topics among these days is “Death Penalty”. It is a kind of punishment for a serious criminal. Death is the biggest fear to human being. Preventing the crime by death penalty is sounds like simple but it acts really powerfully and effectively. “ Lex talionis”, as mentioned in the Bible, encourages “Eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.” That means, if the person kills others, they should killed too. Based on this concept, if the judge found the defendant guilty, they isolate the criminal forever from the society by depriving their life. Currently (October, 2014) the death sentence is practiced by 64 nations. This essay will …show more content…
That is the cost of the death penalty. In accordance with Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes contributor, in terms of costs, a investigation of the Washington State Bar Association discovered that capital punishment cases are estimated to generate approximately $470,000 in additional costs to the prosecution and defense versus a comparable case without the capital punishment. Moreover, that doesn’t take into account the cost of court personnel. Even when a trial wasn’t necessary (because of a allegation), those cases which including the death penalty yet cost about twice as much as those are without death penalty. Richard C. Dieter of the non-partisan Death Penalty Information Center mentioned that Fox News has found that studies have “uniformly and conservatively shown that a death-penalty trial costs $1 million more than one in which prosecutors seeks life without …show more content…
With California’s current death row population of 670, that accounts for $63.3 million annually.” And a 2010 Duke University study found that taxpayers in the Tarheel State could save $11 million a year by replacing life in prison for the capital punishment. This summary essay was focused on death penalty so far. There is impact of the death penalty, the opinion of whose support and oppose to capital punishment. Researchers who support the death penalty have several reasons. People who stand by agree with the death penalty claim that it can prevent crime effective. And on the other hand, people disagree with capital punishment assert that they it cannot prevent the crimes and it costs too much to carry out the