Many people for and against the death penalty are under the proposed belief that capital punishment is a deterrent for crime. No study can offer a clear explanation of this theory. Almost a dozen states don't offer a death penalty, and a dozen more haven't executed in over fifty years that have one. Are their first and second-degree murder rates head and shoulders above the other states? Of course not. Some of t

Another ignorant belief of the death penalty is that it saves money compared to the alternative of life imprisonment. False. In order to preserve due process many long and drawn-out court appeals must be installed at the taxpayer's expense. On average it takes nine years to administer an inmate on death row an execution. With all the court costs and expenses it costs more then two million dollars after the nine years are finally up. A life prison sentence including beds, meals, and prison space roughly hits the 330 thousand mark Over-spending by the government is on every one's mind. Wouldn't Capital punishment be a nice place to start?

hese states include large metropolis' such as Minnesota's twin cites. Detroit has a high crime rate (in actual number not on a per capita basis) in Michigan, which doesn't offer a death penalty, but Birmingham has one of the highest crime rates per capita in the nation. What has Alabama's electric chair not done in Birmingham that life in prison has done in St. Paul? Deter crime, particularly murder. Studies have shown that, all evidence in view, long prison terms punish just as effectively as capital sentences.

We have come a long way in society. In biblical times people were executed quite frequently. Thirteen-year-old females, commonly, were also the mothers of tw

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