Capital punishment should be abolished because it is too expensive to retain, it is revenge not justice, and it 's possible for innocent people to be executed. The execution of human life should not be something we advocate here in the United States, it’s sad that as a nation we preach peace while still executing our citizens. The millions of dollars being wasted on executions could be spent improving our criminal justice system, and in doing so, improve our country. Not only is the death penalty a waste of our hard earned tax dollars, but it also puts innocent lives at risk. Mistreated or mishandled evidence can easily put an innocent life on death row. The death penalty advocates revenge and takes the meaning of justice away, and if we were
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Since the reestablishment of the death penalty in 1977, there have been multiple documented cases of falsely accused people ending up on death row for crimes they did not commit. The majority of these people were convicted due to improperly handled evidence by either attorneys, police, or forensic specialists. According to Lester, 1993 an investigation into the then current Chief Serologist of San Antonio, Texas, revealed over 133 cases of murder and rape in which the evidence was falsely or incorrectly tested, resulting in convictions of innocent people. One of these cases in particular saw an innocent man placed on death row for three years, for a murder he did not commit, and had absolutely nothing to do with. These wrongfully imprisoned people will never get the years of their life back that were stolen by the faulty justice system. Further, the fact that there have been without a doubt many innocent people put to death in our country due to these faults is horrifying (n.p.). We have many unfortunate flaws in our justice system which can lead to the mistreatment and possible execution of valued human life. Human error should never be the cause of someone 's life being taken. The only real way to keep these tragic incidents from happening, would be to abolish the death penalty
Since the reestablishment of the death penalty in 1977, there have been multiple documented cases of falsely accused people ending up on death row for crimes they did not commit. The majority of these people were convicted due to improperly handled evidence by either attorneys, police, or forensic specialists. According to Lester, 1993 an investigation into the then current Chief Serologist of San Antonio, Texas, revealed over 133 cases of murder and rape in which the evidence was falsely or incorrectly tested, resulting in convictions of innocent people. One of these cases in particular saw an innocent man placed on death row for three years, for a murder he did not commit, and had absolutely nothing to do with. These wrongfully imprisoned people will never get the years of their life back that were stolen by the faulty justice system. Further, the fact that there have been without a doubt many innocent people put to death in our country due to these faults is horrifying (n.p.). We have many unfortunate flaws in our justice system which can lead to the mistreatment and possible execution of valued human life. Human error should never be the cause of someone 's life being taken. The only real way to keep these tragic incidents from happening, would be to abolish the death penalty