Nebraska Death Penalty

The Death Penalty Should Nebraska voters reintroduce the death penalty as our maximum form of punishment? I do not think Nebraska voters should reintroduce the death penalty as our maximum form of punishment. The reasons I have is that innocent people are wrongly executed. The cost of the death penalty is added to the government and taxpayers’. The Death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment. It is a platform that is anti-poor and discrimination. With the death penalty there is still innocent people getting wrongly executed. In 1976 the United States released 138 innocent men and women have been released from death row, including one that came within minutes of execution, since the reinstatement of the death penalty. In 1992, Cameron Todd Willingham was convicted of arson murder in Texas. He was believed to have intentionally set a fire that killed his three kids. In 2004, he was put to death. Unfortunately, the Texas Forensic Science Commission …show more content…
In August of 2016 there was a study of costs of Nebraska’s death penalty done by Dr. Ernest Gross, a Creighton University economics professor who founded the conservation think tank, Goss & Associates, he found that the state spends $14.6 million per year to maintain its capital punishment. The study was called The Economic impact of the Death Penalty on the State of Nebraska: A Taxpayer Burden?, it also estimated that each death penalty prosecution cost Nebraska’s taxpayers about $1.5 million more than a life without parole prosecution. Dr. Gross estimated that the death penalty costs states with capital punishment an average of $23.2 million more per year than alternative sentences. The study’s shown that states with death penalty spent about 3.54% of overall state budgets on court, corrections, and other criminal justice functions associated with the death penalty, while states without the death penalty spend about 2.93% on those