In, “ The 2% Death Penalty : How a Minority of Counties Produce Most Death Cases at Enormous Costs to All”, claims that by reducing or all together abolishing the death penalty, will be more beneficial cost wise for counties. Throughout the article, the author always reverts back to how expensive the death penalty can be. For example, the author compares Philadelphia county as one of the highest death rates to New Orleans which only had four inmates on death row that year. In many cases, the death penalty is necessary, however, in counties that have more inmates on death row than inmates that are not; it is time for its citizens to decide on whether the cost and loss of life is actually worth the time and energy that it is taking to keep these
