The Pros And Cons Of California's Death Penalty

More than thirty-five hundred men and women have received the death penalty sentence in California since 1978 and not one of them has been freed, except those few inmates who were able to prove their righteousness. California could save one billion dollars over the course of five years by replacing capital punishment with a lifetime in prison. California taxpayers pay ninety thousand dollars more per inmate who is on death row each year than on inmates in prison. In 2007, New Jersey banned death penalties in the state. This makes absolute sense because we have progressed as a society through the course of the centuries. Ages ago, beheading and brutal murdering of an enemy by another leader was one of the ancient mechanisms of punishment. Today, where we live in a democracy, death penalties are slowly being abolished or less cruel methods are used to execute an inmate. Although California has the largest death row in the country, it has not carried out an execution in almost 7 years, and has executed 13 inmates since 1978. I argue that an era where the world has started modernizing, there are valid reasons against the death penalty that have been pointed out by educated scholars. I will tell you the pros and cons that support my argument to convince you that California’s death …show more content…
Life without parole provides a form of punishment for the defendant without the endless reopening of wounds for the family members of the victim who suffer also the murderer is convicted it the case is closed. This is an appeal to pity argument because there is an attempt to evoke feelings of pity for the victim’s family who suffers the most during the conviction