Did you know, the first legal document know for death penalty was written in the 1700’s B.C., 25 crimes were punishable by death (Example: cheating on your husband/wife, killing someone, or raping) In 1608, Jamestown Virginia the first example of capital punishment was held on Captain George by hanging him for the reason of capital offense of treason. Capital punishment does still reflects the needs, want, and demands of American citizens because; life in prison is very expensive for the government and the people, the people will become more afraid of committing murders, and murderer deserve to die.
To start, capital punishment still reflects the needs, wants, and demands of citizens because of life in prison are very expensive. This means that the government has to pay all the need of the prisoners like; their food, a bed to sleep, utilities and even the when they have to talk to their relative or lawyer. To retrieve their money the government has to increase the tax rate and this effects the human population because they have to pay more tax each year. Some people think that death penalty is more expensive, but this is stated false by Dudley Sharp “Justice for all estimates that life without parole cases will cost $1.2 million-$3.6millions, more than the equivalent penalty cases”. According to William J. Brenan death penalty is unconstitutional because “It treats member of human race as inhuman and as an object to be toyed”. However Bruce Frein said “The death penalty honors human’s dignity by treating the defendant as a free moral actor able to control his own destiny for good or for ill”. For example in 1972 death penalty was violating the 8th and 4th amendments but the Supreme Court overturn the decision because they thought that this was a fair way to punish people’s who had kill other people.
To continue, a second reason that still reflects the needs, wants, and demands of citizens for