The Importance Of The Death Penalty In The United States

Controversial topics have been in our nations politics since the beginning of our government’s creation. One of these that still comes up today is that regarding the death penalty and if it should be legal or not, even more so if it is humane or inhumane. Almost all death penalty cases involve the execution of murderers although capital punishment can also be applied to a variety of crimes, the list just goes on for other crimes. Ultimately we should be asking ourselves the moral question surrounding capital punishment in the United States, which has to do with whether a convicted criminal of certain crime deserve to die or not, which crimes we deem permissible, and whether government or us as people in general deserve to kill those who have to spend the rest of their lives behind bars. …show more content…
These states and many others believe that the death penalty or the “cost of death” is much more expensive than life in prison. Everything that you would expect in a normal trial is needed for a death penalty case, only much much more. The Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center, Richard C. Dieter, puts it as you have more trial time, twice as many attorneys most likely, two trials instead of one will be held: one for guilt and one for punishment, and then finally will come the series of appeals when the inmates are held in high security facilities for death row. You have to consider the lengthy and complicated death penalty trials. After listing these issues the death penalty is clearly more expensive than smaller insignificant cases that hand out punishment, like life in prison