Abolish Capital Punishment

Capital punishment should be abolished. One reason, the cost to imprison an inmate on death row costs double the amount of money, resulting in millions more spent for those on death row than of someone facing a lifetime sentence. Another reason, there are several individuals on death row who suffer from varying degrees of mental illness. Though deemed unconstitutional and viewed highly unethical, executions of the mentally insane and intellectually disabled still occur. For example, John Ferguson, was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic, yet was executed on August 15, 2013 in Florida. In another example, Charles Singleton, whom without medication became psychotic, was forcibly medicated to keep him sane enough to be executed on January 6,