There is a saying an eye for an eye. Today criminals such as murders, rapist, kidnappers, are overcrowding our prisons. According to US Bureau of Justice Statistics, there are 2,220,300 adults in prisons in Addition to 4,751,400 adults on parole. According to a New York times article released the state of New York itself is paying 60,000 per inmate. This is just unreal we could be using this money for more schools things like that instead, we have murders who think they can do whatever they want and get away with it. That is why the death penalty for murders, etc... should be put in place.
One argument to think about is it is costing way too much to house, feed, cloth convicts. Dudley Sharp, who has a degree in Philosophy from Tulane University, 1978, says this on the topic of people saying the death penalty is more expensive than life in prison."Many opponents present, …show more content…
Brennan, JD who is a supreme court justice said this about the death penalty (Brennan ). But where is people’s common sense there is approximately around 16,238 murders per year in the United States; this averages out to around 44 murders per day. And what do these people get is a long trial to wait and see what is to become of them, housing- even if it is prison and they don't starve parents have more justice when it comes to disrespecting them etc... and yet we have criminals getting out of prison committing the same crime or another whole different one. An estimated 68 percent of 405,000 prisoners released in 30 states in 2005 were arrested for a new crime within three years of release from prison, and 77 percent were arrested within five years according to Bureau of Justice
One argument to think about is it is costing way too much to house, feed, cloth convicts. Dudley Sharp, who has a degree in Philosophy from Tulane University, 1978, says this on the topic of people saying the death penalty is more expensive than life in prison."Many opponents present, …show more content…
Brennan, JD who is a supreme court justice said this about the death penalty (Brennan ). But where is people’s common sense there is approximately around 16,238 murders per year in the United States; this averages out to around 44 murders per day. And what do these people get is a long trial to wait and see what is to become of them, housing- even if it is prison and they don't starve parents have more justice when it comes to disrespecting them etc... and yet we have criminals getting out of prison committing the same crime or another whole different one. An estimated 68 percent of 405,000 prisoners released in 30 states in 2005 were arrested for a new crime within three years of release from prison, and 77 percent were arrested within five years according to Bureau of Justice