Death Penalty

Imagine yourself walking through the park and you see a body on the ground. You go over to the body to make sure everything is alright, but it turns out that it’s a dead body. All of a sudden cops are surrounding you thinking you killed the person, when you didn’t. All evidence that was found makes it seem that you were the one that committed a crime, and now you are being given the death penalty for ‘killing’ someone. In reality you’re innocent and you didn’t kill anyone. There are many cases like this out there, where innocent men are being put to death for a crime they didn’t commit. Instead of putting someone to death because they committed murder the government should sentence them to life imprisonment instead of capital punishment, which in some states is the death penalty. I believe that the death penalty shouldn’t be allowed in any state across the country because it goes against religious beliefs, the cost of executing someone is higher than letting them live out their lives as prisoners, and let’s not forget the lives of the innocent victims who were put to death for wrongful convictions.
One reason I am against the death penalty is because it goes against religious beliefs. Catholicism, for example, follows God’s rules which are the Ten Commandments. One of the commandments states: “Thou shalt not kill,” which clearly means you shouldn’t kill anyone, no matter what crime they committed. If you are executing any human being, it is a mortal sin and it completely violates the commandment. The death penalty shouldn’t be an exception to God’s commandments.
Second of all, taxpayers are paying way too much just for someone to be put to death. The government would save more money if they were to sentence an individual to life in prison without a chance of parole, instead of executing them. Death penalty trials are re-done several times, in which taxpayers have to pay for the same trial to be heard several different times. The death penalty in over a dozen