Pros And Cons Of Pro Death Penalty
The death penalty.
The death penalty.
The ultimate punishment for a crime is and should be the death penalty. With many views to cover and different types of view, this paper will be about pro death penalty. There is one point I will cover that will be against the death penalty, and that will be executing an innocent person, the rest will be cost to have inmates in jail and how incarceration does not rehabilitated inmates. Life or death is a very important decision that cannot be taken lightly.
The reason I am pro death penalty is because back in time there were not so many crimes committed and the reason was because they will make them pay. Now they have too many rights, privileges and they know that by making a deal with the prosecution …show more content…
“Housing the approximate 500,000 people in jail in the USA awaiting trial who cannot afford bail cost $9 billion a year.” (Death Penalty Information Center) This is money that can be used to cure children that are sick for example with cancer or AIDS. I think that if someone committed a crime and took the life of another person, they should be executed, I know some people think that then the person will not suffer and that it will be an easy way out to the crime that was committed. But the cost to keep someone in prison for life is very expensive and not worth it, the person can commit another crime while in jail or can escape and will possibly kill to get whatever he/she needs to escape. The reason behind this is because this person does not have anything to loose if they are caught. Also the above cost has not taken in consideration if a person is sick and needs medical treatment, if he/she is so violent that he/she needs to have his/her own cell, which will also increase cost of money being wasted by having only one person in a cell versus two. “An example – Lubbock County, Texas has decided to build a $110 million megajail to ease the jail overcrowding.” This is another example of money just being wasted; I think that if a …show more content…
As I said before there are many crimes that leave a scar forever, for example sexual abuse, and should be taken as well in consideration when someone is being given life in prison, they should get the death penalty. Wasting too much money in feeding and making sure this people have a decent place is outrageous, that money should go into other things, like education or helping children that have life threating diseases. Also the amount of time a person is in jail before the sentence takes place is too long, ten or twenty years sitting on death row and wasting money is not worth it.
Reference
Incarceration in the United States cost. (2011 September 12th) Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States
Joe Arpio. (2011 September 15th) Retrieve from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arpaio
Manning, S. New Jersey Law Journal. Op-ed: The Risk of Executing the Innocent (2002 February) Retrieved from
The death penalty.
The ultimate punishment for a crime is and should be the death penalty. With many views to cover and different types of view, this paper will be about pro death penalty. There is one point I will cover that will be against the death penalty, and that will be executing an innocent person, the rest will be cost to have inmates in jail and how incarceration does not rehabilitated inmates. Life or death is a very important decision that cannot be taken lightly.
The reason I am pro death penalty is because back in time there were not so many crimes committed and the reason was because they will make them pay. Now they have too many rights, privileges and they know that by making a deal with the prosecution …show more content…
“Housing the approximate 500,000 people in jail in the USA awaiting trial who cannot afford bail cost $9 billion a year.” (Death Penalty Information Center) This is money that can be used to cure children that are sick for example with cancer or AIDS. I think that if someone committed a crime and took the life of another person, they should be executed, I know some people think that then the person will not suffer and that it will be an easy way out to the crime that was committed. But the cost to keep someone in prison for life is very expensive and not worth it, the person can commit another crime while in jail or can escape and will possibly kill to get whatever he/she needs to escape. The reason behind this is because this person does not have anything to loose if they are caught. Also the above cost has not taken in consideration if a person is sick and needs medical treatment, if he/she is so violent that he/she needs to have his/her own cell, which will also increase cost of money being wasted by having only one person in a cell versus two. “An example – Lubbock County, Texas has decided to build a $110 million megajail to ease the jail overcrowding.” This is another example of money just being wasted; I think that if a …show more content…
As I said before there are many crimes that leave a scar forever, for example sexual abuse, and should be taken as well in consideration when someone is being given life in prison, they should get the death penalty. Wasting too much money in feeding and making sure this people have a decent place is outrageous, that money should go into other things, like education or helping children that have life threating diseases. Also the amount of time a person is in jail before the sentence takes place is too long, ten or twenty years sitting on death row and wasting money is not worth it.
Reference
Incarceration in the United States cost. (2011 September 12th) Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States
Joe Arpio. (2011 September 15th) Retrieve from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arpaio
Manning, S. New Jersey Law Journal. Op-ed: The Risk of Executing the Innocent (2002 February) Retrieved from