Guilty Until Proven Innocent - The Death Penalty
In 2005, the supreme court struck down the death penalty for juveniles. The United States was one of the last countries that still allowed capital punishment for offenders under 18 years of age, along with Saudi Arabia,Sudan,Iran,and Yemen, and it only took them 105 years and 26 teenage and child lives. Capital punishment in the united states has been in place since the burning of Captain George Kendall for being a spy. Since then, 1,392 american lives have been executed for their crimes, and now, there are currently 3,035 people are living their lives on the fearful death row, and since 62% of Americans support capital punishment, it seems that the Death Penalty isn’t going anywhere soon, but …show more content…
The argument here is that the less prisoners in a prison, the less money need to be spent on food and such. Not only is this argument flawed in the fact that the number of prisoners in the united states continues to rise, even with all the executions and the freeing of prisoners, given that eight out of ten people freed from prison end up back in prison, but there are countless studies to suggest that it actually takes more money to execute a person than to let them rot in prison. Take a recent study done by the death penalty information study in 2014 that suggests that in the state of California, (which was some of the worst prison conditions, and one of the highest prison populations in proportion to its size), the amount of money spent on prison executions was a wooping four billion dollars, whereas only three hundred and eight million dollars was spent on the same number of people, the only difference is, they were given life sentences. To put this in perspective, in most places, it takes up to ten times more money to execute a person than it is to give them life in prison. Since all the people in this study are members of the Death penalty Information Center, it is safe to say they know what they are talking …show more content…
The American people should deserve better than a system that doesn’t kill the innocent, discriminate against the american people, or waste their taxpaying dollars. Those who disagree may be blinded by the rage and revenge of having a person murdered, and wanting them dead, but capital punishment is a far from perfect system, and is in desperate need of
In 2005, the supreme court struck down the death penalty for juveniles. The United States was one of the last countries that still allowed capital punishment for offenders under 18 years of age, along with Saudi Arabia,Sudan,Iran,and Yemen, and it only took them 105 years and 26 teenage and child lives. Capital punishment in the united states has been in place since the burning of Captain George Kendall for being a spy. Since then, 1,392 american lives have been executed for their crimes, and now, there are currently 3,035 people are living their lives on the fearful death row, and since 62% of Americans support capital punishment, it seems that the Death Penalty isn’t going anywhere soon, but …show more content…
The argument here is that the less prisoners in a prison, the less money need to be spent on food and such. Not only is this argument flawed in the fact that the number of prisoners in the united states continues to rise, even with all the executions and the freeing of prisoners, given that eight out of ten people freed from prison end up back in prison, but there are countless studies to suggest that it actually takes more money to execute a person than to let them rot in prison. Take a recent study done by the death penalty information study in 2014 that suggests that in the state of California, (which was some of the worst prison conditions, and one of the highest prison populations in proportion to its size), the amount of money spent on prison executions was a wooping four billion dollars, whereas only three hundred and eight million dollars was spent on the same number of people, the only difference is, they were given life sentences. To put this in perspective, in most places, it takes up to ten times more money to execute a person than it is to give them life in prison. Since all the people in this study are members of the Death penalty Information Center, it is safe to say they know what they are talking …show more content…
The American people should deserve better than a system that doesn’t kill the innocent, discriminate against the american people, or waste their taxpaying dollars. Those who disagree may be blinded by the rage and revenge of having a person murdered, and wanting them dead, but capital punishment is a far from perfect system, and is in desperate need of