Analysis Of Death Of The Death Penalty By David Von Drehle

In “Death of the Death Penalty”, David Von Drehle states that the death penalty is becoming less common and should now just be abolished because of the cost and time that it takes. Drehles article was published in Time Magazine. He concludes that the death penalty has become unnecessary and doesn’t work anymore. The crime rate in the United States has declined so much that in the past decade even though there are hundreds of people under the death penalty. This statement is making people believe that there is no reason to keep the death penalty in our society.
Summary
The case of Dzhokhar drew Americans to the awareness of the Death Penalty for the first time in years. Even though there are hundreds of people under death row, they will not die in the near future. No person that has been sentenced to death has died within the past decade because their trials are so long and expensive. Judges and prosecutors are realizing that the modern death penalty has failed. In the past, people that have received this penalty are sometimes proved innocent, later on if this person had been killed, then the government would have killed an innocent person. Killing someone is not reversable. The reality is that capital punishment is simply nothing more than expensive, destructive and a risky government program. Many of the states allow capital punishment even …show more content…
This article, written for Time Magazine, gave people a better idea of what was going on with the death penalty and understand why the era of capital punishment is coming to an end. The organization of “The Death of the Death Penalty” was confusing and sometimes I didn’t quite understand what was being talked about. The essay’s argument, however, is constructed logically by giving the reader facts and statistics. Von Drehle argues that the capital punishment system has failed and causes our government to spend millions of dollars on