Arguments again the death penalty
...riminological societies, 84% of these experts rejected the notion that the death penalty acts as a deterrent of murder” (qtd. in “Facts”). If the death penalty is not deterring crime than you might as well let the murderer rot in jail for the rest of their life, taking into consideration that the person they murdered is not going to come back either way. There is one major thing about the death penalty that makes it an extremely scary thing: the fact that there is always a chance of error. Imagine killing an innocent person because the jury thinks they killed someone, then finding out that they weren’t even the one who did it. Unless someone has a videotape of the murder/s, you could never be one hundred percent sure, and death is irreversible. "We have enormous protections, the best by far, but we're never going to have a system that will never execute an innocent person" (qtd. in “Fatal”). This was a quote made by the Chairperson of the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee and it shows that no matter how great protections are one can never be one hundred percent sure if they are executing an innocent person. “In 1997, the Death Penalty Information Center reported that for every four executions, one death row inmate is released. Some are because of procedural errors, but others it is because DNA evidence demonstrates their innocence” (Inciardi, 454). If one out of those four people were executed, the government would be killing innocent people. This is completely corrupt. One last reason that the death penalty is wrong is because of the extreme costs. It costs more money to execute someone that to keep them in prison for life, which is where they belong anyway. “A New York study estimated the cost of an execution at three times that of life imprisonment. In Florida, each execution costs the state $3.2 million, compared to $600,000 for life imprisonment. Studies in C...