In a majority of states, the death penalty is still used. When polled, a majority (11,643,337 people, 71%) had voted that they had supported the death penalty. Reasons for supporting such may reside in personal experiences. Some of the supporters (11% of supporters) had said that the death penalty should only be used if the crime is heinous enough and the evidence is undeniable. One may support the death penalty because of the amount that it costs to put someone through life in prison; housing a prisoner for 40 years in a Texan prison costs $693,500, all payed from taxpayers. Meanwhile, the minority (4,660,083 people, 29%) had said that they didn’t support the death penalty. Reasons for not supporting the death penalty may reside in the innocent victim mortality rate. Only a few (3% of non-supporters) people believe that spending life in prison is harsher than the death penalty. One may not support the death penalty because a case ending with a death penalty cost $1.26 million from taxpayers. Another reason one wouldn’t support the death penalty is because 4.1% of people put on death row and executed are innocent. Meanwhile 1.6% of people put on death row and executed are guilty. Along with these percentages, a study claims that for every 25 people executed, one of them is innocent. Such means that if everyone in the US was put on the death penalty, 81,077,503 people would be innocent.
I like how you explain what the problem is in the United States. You show how bad the death penalty has come.
So what made you want to pick this Topic?? What are somethings you want to change about death penalty?