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Life In Jail
Life in Jail or No Life at All

Neumann University

Death is a very emotional topic and hard thing to deal with no matter what. Knowing the person or having it be a friends acquaintance you still always feel a little bit of sorrow. Everyone has someone that they love so it is hard to pick the right and the wrong sides of stories. If someone 's husband was being sentenced to the death penalty, the wife would be heart broken, but the wife of whom her husband may have killed would be thrilled to see him executed. That is why most say it is all about revenge and getting back at someone. The feelings that some people may get when talking about the death penalty though can be very different. Sometimes people want revenge on another
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"The death penalty is much more expensive than life without parole because the Constitution requires a long and complex judicial process for capital cases". The process before being executed is much longer. In fact "Some prisoners have been on death row for well over 20 years"(Death penalty.org, 2008). This time on death row can vary, but usually it is more then 10 years (Death penalty.org, 2008). During that time of waiting on death row more and more money is being spent looking into the case to make sure everything is perfect and correct information is there. The amount of money spent on the person that is getting executed is over thousands more by the time the process is done. Executions cost "$2 million per person vs. $500,000 for life in prison without parole. If the death penalty was replaced with a sentence of life without the possibility of parole, which costs millions less, more money, could go for things citizen really need. In fact; "the money saved could be spent on programs that actually improve the communities in which we live"(Death penalty, 2008). There are so many good things we could use the extra millions of dollars on including "education, roads, police officers and public safety programs, after-school programs, drug and alcohol treatment, child abuse prevention programs, mental health services, and services for crime victims and their families". All of this should be way more important in the grand schema of things. The state of California alone "could save $1 billion over five years by replacing the death penalty with permanent imprisonment." Having regular prisoners is so much cheaper. "California taxpayers pay $90,000 more per death row prisoner each year than on prisoners in regular

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