Pro Death Penalty - Essay

Getting rid of the death penalty will cause great turmoil to all and to the legal system. But first let’s go back just forty years ago to the Charlie Manson cases. This was a time known for protest, war, Murder and drugs. During this time a few major arguments came up that are still debated today including the abortion case of Roe vs. Wade, the gay rights movement and the idea of abolishing capitol punishment. Now in the case of Charles Manson, a failing cult leader trying to start a “race war”, there were nine innocent people killed. But Charlie was not the only one in this cult massacre. One main person involved was Susan Atkins an intelligent woman twisted by the ideas of Manson. She stabbed Sharon Tate, a pregnant actress, sixteen times, Sharon begged for mercy and Susan Atkins told her “there would be no compassion for her or her unborn baby”, and after tasting the victim's blood she used the blood to write the word "pig" on the front door and left. After she admitted to stabbing the pregnant actress in her 1971 court trial, she was sentenced to the death penalty. BUT due to the Supreme Court decision in 1972 of abolishing the death penalty, Atkins was now in prison for life with POSSIBLE PAROLE! She is now on the brink of death and has cost the state of California over 1.4 million dollars alone in medical cost! That’s doesn’t even include the 3.5 million dollars it has took to care for her in prison for almost forty years! In total, this adds up to 5 million dollars The cost to keep the death penalty in California is ninety million dollars. Right now California has 3,300 people in for a life sentence, this only adds up to the seventy five million dollars right now. But riddle me this with crime rates only moving up in these financially bad times do you want to run the risk of putting more in life in jail? The costs here say. If we add one hundred people a year to the life in prison list it will only take seven years for the price of life penalties to be