Death Penalty Statistics
Imagine for a moment that someone you knew was murdered. They soundly slept in their home of twenty-two years that they deemed safe enough for their children and safe enough for themselves. The house is in a small community, the type of community where everyone knows everyone else. They had raised one child who is now in high school, one child is still in grade school, and two have yet to start school. As they all slept soundly, believing nothing could go wrong, an unknown person creeps into the downstairs window. He is equipped with a large gutting knife. He is determined to settle a score that he has with someone in the house. Shrieks and screams are made during the night in this house by two people. The four children awake and enter their parents room to find nothing other than a bloodbath. Their parents have been slaughtered while they calmly slept. They were given no chance to defend themselves, nor a chance to say goodbye to their loved ones. The four children are now left on their own, to grow up without their parents, but be raised by some other person that can never take the place of their parents. When this happens, the justice system needs to decide what to do with these barbarians. Should the justice syst
Unfortunately, not everyone believes that simple and sensible point. In fact, the people in opposition to the death penalty have good points, but unfortunately they just don't hold up. They might argue a point like cost. They believe that it is more expensive to execute someone than to keep them in prison the rest of their life. Unfortunately, that is simply not true. If one is sentenced to death, (assuming he is in prison 50 years) taxpayers pay $34,200 per year at a 2% annual cost increase plus $75,000 in trial and appeal costs. This all adds up to 3.01 million dollars. Those figures are all meager figures, too. Now, if one is sentenced to death, (assuming he will be on death row 6 years) taxpayers pay $60,000 per year at a 2% annual cost increase plus $1.5 million for trial and appeals. This figure adds up to only $1.88 million, despite the fact those figures are at the high end of the spectrum. The facts make it obvious that the death penalty is far less expensive than life in prison. It is $1.13 million cheaper to be exact. Another point often brought up by opponents to capital punishment is the argument of religious correctness. In the Christian religion, the fifth commandment states simply "You shall not kill." These opponents of capital punishment argue that because of this commandment, execution is
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