It seems like the never ending argument is if the United States should keep the death penalty or eliminate it. Right now it is still legal in our constitution; however it is on a state to state basis Michigan, the state we live in does not have the death penalty. The death penalty also known as capital punishment is when someone commits a crime so heinous, such as criminal sexual conduct or murder, and are convicted by a jury, then part of their sentencing either by a judge or jury would be to be sentenced to death, the most common method of death penalty now a days is lethal injection, although methods such as gunshot, electric chair and hanging are all still on the books today. Now I am against the death penalty, for a few unusual reasons.
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This is shown in California, one of the states where the death penalty is still in effect. “Cases without the death penalty cost $740,000, while cases where the death penalty is sought cost $1.26 million. Maintaining each death row prisoner costs taxpayers $90,000 more per year than a prisoner in general population. There are 714 inmates on California's death row.” (DeathPenaltyInfo, 1). The fourth reason I am against the death penalty is the possibility of wrongful convictions. Time magazine reports that the numbers of people wrongfully convicted and put to death have doubled the numbers of people appealing and being found innocent and exonerated, that number also continues to rise TIME says. “Authors of the study say that their “conservative estimate of the proportion of erroneous convictions” is 4.1 percent, or approximately twice the number actually exonerated and set free from death row. This could mean that approximately 120 of the roughly 3,000 inmates on death row in America might not be guilty, while additional scores of wrongfully convicted inmates are serving life in prison after their death sentences were reduced over technical legal errors.” (Time, 1). Even one innocent man losing their life, due to a wrongful conviction is absurd. But
This is shown in California, one of the states where the death penalty is still in effect. “Cases without the death penalty cost $740,000, while cases where the death penalty is sought cost $1.26 million. Maintaining each death row prisoner costs taxpayers $90,000 more per year than a prisoner in general population. There are 714 inmates on California's death row.” (DeathPenaltyInfo, 1). The fourth reason I am against the death penalty is the possibility of wrongful convictions. Time magazine reports that the numbers of people wrongfully convicted and put to death have doubled the numbers of people appealing and being found innocent and exonerated, that number also continues to rise TIME says. “Authors of the study say that their “conservative estimate of the proportion of erroneous convictions” is 4.1 percent, or approximately twice the number actually exonerated and set free from death row. This could mean that approximately 120 of the roughly 3,000 inmates on death row in America might not be guilty, while additional scores of wrongfully convicted inmates are serving life in prison after their death sentences were reduced over technical legal errors.” (Time, 1). Even one innocent man losing their life, due to a wrongful conviction is absurd. But