Abolishing Death Penalty
Matt Comer
Mr. Snider
English III
March 1, 2016
Abolish the Death Penalty The death penalty is the punishment of execution, administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime. Most people think that the death penalty is helping our society to become better but the truth is that it is only a drain on our country’s resources and citizens.
The death penalty is the punishment of execution, administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime. Today there are nearly one thousand people on death row waiting their turn to drain our nation’s resources and possibly get a unfair sentence at the same time. This is something that humans have had a problem with since the beginning of time. Someone will always judge another person from …show more content…
Local and state governments should focus on reducing the number or at least the expense of the death penalty trials. Many police chiefs nationwide view the death penalty as one of the most ineffective and inefficient use of taxpayer dollars. A quote from Equal-Justice America shows how much just one death penalty trial cost in Maryland: “The most rigorous cost study in the country found that a single death sentence in Maryland costs almost two million more than a comparable non-death penalty case(Wasteful and Inefficient). From this quote one can see how much money from taxpayers is wasted on something that has little to no effecting on deterring future crimes. As of January 1, 2016 there are currently 2,943 people on death row and if each had a case similar to the one in Maryland nearly 5.9 billion dollars would be spent on them. The fact that so many Americans are paying so much for something that has little results is appalling. Since the death penalty diverts so many resources to it’s cause it could be taking a lot away from other parts of the government. An article on deathpenalty.org from the California Commission on the Fair Administation of Justice shows how much California spends on death row annually. “The costs of the present systems with reforms recommended by the Commission to ensure a fair process would be 232.7 million per year.” (Death Penalty Focus : The High Cost of the Death Penalty.) The article goes on to tell that if the death penalty was abolished life in maximum security prison would only cost a total of 11.5 million instead of the 232.7 million spent on death row. Think about the amount of money that could be spent on other things like rehab or increasing law enforcement. This absurd amount of money wasted on something that clearly is not working shows how irresponsible the government can be with taxpayer
Mr. Snider
English III
March 1, 2016
Abolish the Death Penalty The death penalty is the punishment of execution, administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime. Most people think that the death penalty is helping our society to become better but the truth is that it is only a drain on our country’s resources and citizens.
The death penalty is the punishment of execution, administered to someone legally convicted of a capital crime. Today there are nearly one thousand people on death row waiting their turn to drain our nation’s resources and possibly get a unfair sentence at the same time. This is something that humans have had a problem with since the beginning of time. Someone will always judge another person from …show more content…
Local and state governments should focus on reducing the number or at least the expense of the death penalty trials. Many police chiefs nationwide view the death penalty as one of the most ineffective and inefficient use of taxpayer dollars. A quote from Equal-Justice America shows how much just one death penalty trial cost in Maryland: “The most rigorous cost study in the country found that a single death sentence in Maryland costs almost two million more than a comparable non-death penalty case(Wasteful and Inefficient). From this quote one can see how much money from taxpayers is wasted on something that has little to no effecting on deterring future crimes. As of January 1, 2016 there are currently 2,943 people on death row and if each had a case similar to the one in Maryland nearly 5.9 billion dollars would be spent on them. The fact that so many Americans are paying so much for something that has little results is appalling. Since the death penalty diverts so many resources to it’s cause it could be taking a lot away from other parts of the government. An article on deathpenalty.org from the California Commission on the Fair Administation of Justice shows how much California spends on death row annually. “The costs of the present systems with reforms recommended by the Commission to ensure a fair process would be 232.7 million per year.” (Death Penalty Focus : The High Cost of the Death Penalty.) The article goes on to tell that if the death penalty was abolished life in maximum security prison would only cost a total of 11.5 million instead of the 232.7 million spent on death row. Think about the amount of money that could be spent on other things like rehab or increasing law enforcement. This absurd amount of money wasted on something that clearly is not working shows how irresponsible the government can be with taxpayer