Death Penalty Persuasive Essay
Death Penalty Persuasive Speech
Have you ever been accused for something you haven’t done? Imagine how the people feel who were set up for a crime and now are being sent to the electric chair for a crime they didn’t commit. Capital Punishment is wrong.
In the first place, it is opposed by people on religious grounds. Representatives of various religious groups claim that only God can take a human life and human beings are then not sanctioned to kill each other.
Executions cost more than life in prison.
$2 million per person vs. $500,000 (4x as much!). Free counsel for defense, for appeals, maximum security on a separate death row wing.
The innocent may be wrongly executed. Since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, 82 inmates have been freed from death row. That’s 1 Death Row inmate to be wrongfully convicted for every 7 executed. Is not a deterrent; crime rates have not gone down.
In fact, the murder rate in the US is 6 times that of Britain and 5 times that of Australia. Neither country has the DP. Texas has twice the murder rate of Wisconsin, a state that doesn't have the DP. Texas and Oklahoma have historically executed the most number of DR inmates, yet in 2003 their state murder rates increased, and both have murder rates higher than the national average. Life in prison guarantees no further crime for that inmate outside of the walls. Promotes killing as an OK solution to a difficult problem. The conclusion is to not bring back the death penalty because it doesn’t help anyone, It’s too expensive, the innocent may be executed, and it doesn’t lower crime
Have you ever been accused for something you haven’t done? Imagine how the people feel who were set up for a crime and now are being sent to the electric chair for a crime they didn’t commit. Capital Punishment is wrong.
In the first place, it is opposed by people on religious grounds. Representatives of various religious groups claim that only God can take a human life and human beings are then not sanctioned to kill each other.
Executions cost more than life in prison.
$2 million per person vs. $500,000 (4x as much!). Free counsel for defense, for appeals, maximum security on a separate death row wing.
The innocent may be wrongly executed. Since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, 82 inmates have been freed from death row. That’s 1 Death Row inmate to be wrongfully convicted for every 7 executed. Is not a deterrent; crime rates have not gone down.
In fact, the murder rate in the US is 6 times that of Britain and 5 times that of Australia. Neither country has the DP. Texas has twice the murder rate of Wisconsin, a state that doesn't have the DP. Texas and Oklahoma have historically executed the most number of DR inmates, yet in 2003 their state murder rates increased, and both have murder rates higher than the national average. Life in prison guarantees no further crime for that inmate outside of the walls. Promotes killing as an OK solution to a difficult problem. The conclusion is to not bring back the death penalty because it doesn’t help anyone, It’s too expensive, the innocent may be executed, and it doesn’t lower crime