Those who have violated the law, by murder or any capital crime would know the stakes at which they are at if caught by authorities. If the criminal wishes to commit a crime, he or she should take the charges for it. If the death penalty is a sentence then they would have known this at the time of the crime therefore accepting their own fate when they committed the crime.
Death penalty has led to the execution of innocent people. There has been many cases in which innocent people have been convicted of crimes that they have not committed. This happened regularly in the days before DNA testing and advanced crime labs with an arsenal of biological testing devices. The innocent people were sent to their death and cases were brought upon the state by others of these incidents. Some of these cases have led to the abolishment of capital punishment in the state in question.
Capital punishment isn’t justice but revenge and a way to save money for the state. According to the Justice for All organisation, it is estimated that sentence ‘Life without Parole’ costs more than Capital punishment, where Life without Parole costs between three quarters and two-point-two million pounds sterling more than capital punishment cases. It therefore doesn’t save any money and the state is indeed receiving revenge for the