Pros And Cons Of The Death Penalty

Deaths row Would you punish an innocent person? The death penalty is the harshest punishment a person can get. 31 states are for the death penalty. The death penalty should be illegal because they may kill innocent people, expensive to kill them, and killing them is a crime itself. Killing innocent people is not what america is and stands for. “Our fingerprint expert also believed there were serious problems with the fingerprint identification (Newton 2).” Newton states that the fingerprint identification does not always work properly. Should we continue to follow this routine, even it's not always accurate? “A growing number of cases in which prisoners being found innocent following years of imprisonment raise issue of police, prosecutorial and judicial culpability (“death penalty”).” After many years of being in jail people have been found innocent, what if they find the inmate innocent when it's too late ? A inmate case on death row should be followed closely, and given to people who will actually take their time on the case. …show more content…
“Given a shoestring budget of 30,000, our investigators discovered serious evidence to support Floyds innocence(Newton 2).” People who take these cases are paid like normal lawyers. If they lose the case, you have to go through getting the funds for killing them. Why waste the government's money on killing a criminal? when we can use the money for something useful, like finding a cure for cancer or helping treat cancer patients. “ I had exhausted our limited budget (Newton 2).” Lawyers may spend their own money on a case, this may be stressful not given the right things for your case. Due to little funds they may have to take out loans and who knows how they will pay them back. If we wouldn't consider the death penalty we would have money for more important