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The most unsettling thing about the death penalty is that it is so final. There is no room for error and there is no taking it back. According to the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, there have been twenty-three people that were mistakenly executed. In Virginia, Joseph O’Dell could have been proven innocent by DNA evidence that was not permitted to be heard in court. Instead, O’Dell was sentenced to death and executed in July of 1997. Another case of an innocent being executed occurred in Texas. Robert Nelson Drew was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. After a man signed a confession exonerating Drew the state of Texas still executed him in August of 1994. If these people were sentenced to life imprisonment instead the mistake could have been corrected. Mothers, wives, children and families could be with their loved ones that were so unjustly stolen away from them.

Many supporters of the death penalty believe that it is less expensive to kill the criminal than to keep him alive for the rest of his life. The facts prove that the reality is quite the opposite. The average cost from point of arrest to execution is $1 million to $3 million per case

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