The death penalty is Bias, Costly, and very Ineffective. This is shown by many sources including books, articles, and even government databases yet the death penalty is still used to this day. Tom Robinson case in To Kill a Mockingbird is a prime example to all of these reasons of why the death penalty should be abolished. As Atticus said in the novel “A court is only as is and if the jury is biased in the slightest, the trial is usually ineffective. The death penalty is biased in many ways. In recent studies by Santa Clara Law Review Someone is three times more likely to be sentenced to die if the victim is a non-Latino white than an African American and four times more likely to be sentenced if the victim was white instead of Latino(Pierce
