The Death Penalty Should Not Be Abolished

Have you ever heard the sound of someone’s neck snapping as they fall to their death with a noose around their neck? If you were around in the early 1600s, public hanging was pretty popular and not uncommon to see on the everyday streets. In today’s society, hanging has become an obsolete form of capital punishment. Even though with todays methods being more humane and not as violent, people still try to abolish the capital punishment act; the main reason being: that there is no deterrence factor in the death penalty, the death penalty is racially biased, and that it is cheaper to keep someone in prison for life than it is to execute them. And people will argue these facts all day everyday, even though they are all false.
To begin, capital punishment should not be abolished because it actually does deter crimes such as murder. Professors Hashem Dezhbakhsh, Paul H. Rubin, and Joanna M. Shepherd of Emory University found that on average that each execution resulted in 18 fewer murders. If the only punishment that people would receive for murdering someone would to be locked up in a cell and never have to worry about food, shelter, or health care anymore; then there wouldn’t be any deterrence at all. Because there are a lot of people in the world who are homeless or have nothing going for them in life could easily just walk up and kill someone just so …show more content…
People are going to argue the matter most likely until the end of time. But capital punishment should still not be abolished for the fact that it has been easily proven to be a very effective deterrent, and has also been proven not to be racially biased. The system is still flawed in costing so much for capital punishment cases, with them just being drawn out and reviewed over and over. But in the end, capital punishment is meant to help protect lives and deter any future acts of wrongful doing, so the cost of a spared innocent life should never have to come into