Pro Death Penalty Research Paper

Many criminals die each year because of the death penalty. It is a cruel and horrible way to die. People who are sentenced to the death penalty are first put on death row. Most people are on death row for around ten years. Some people will wait for twenty or thirty years. Once it is their turn, they either are given a lethal injection, electrocuted, put in a gas chamber, and occasionally shot by a firing squad or hanged. By killing them, the people who gave them the death sentence are just as bad as the criminal. The people who kill the criminals are criminals themselves. The death penalty is very wrong.

I believe that the death penalty should not be legal. By killing the criminal they are committing a felony themselves. They think that it
An average case without the death penalty costs around 740 thousand dollars, while an average case with the death penalty costs around 1.26 million dollars. That is around 500 thousand more dollars. Also, it costs 90 thousand more tax dollars to keep a prisoner on death row. That is money that could be spent on causes that will benefit the future. We could help feed the poor, improve educations, or expand the police and fire department with that money. Also, the cost of the death penalty is so much, that the government is having to lay off hundreds of police officers and correctional personnel plus inmates are only spending twenty percent of their sentences due to budget cuts. Without these police officers and correctional personnel the crime rate in many states with the death penalty has gone up. If we were to take away the death penalty we wouldn’t have to lay off as many officers and inmates would have to do their full
It causes us to have higher taxes and that extra taxes go to a fruitless cause. It costs around 90 thousand dollars to keep the death penalty going. It causes us to have to fire hundreds of police officers which is making our streets even more unsafe. When done incorrectly, it can violate the eighth amendment by giving them a slow painful death, which is considered a cruel and unusual punishment. For all these reasons, the death penalty must be abolished.

Please, help me to put an end to this unjust practice. To many people, innocent and not, are dying because of this. Life in prison is a much better option that allows us to punish the criminals, while not committing a felony ourselves. Abolishing the death penalty can save many jobs in law enforcement, and make sure that criminals do their full sentence. Together, we can make the streets safer, and keep people off of the deathbed, at the same time. The death penalty is an unjust practice that need to be