According to Mark Costanzo, the price tag on life imprisonment without parole can range between $750,000 to $1.1 million per prisoner. Although the prisoner can work to reduce that cost(60). Even though life imprisonment without parole is high, the cost of the death penalty is far higher. In California, our most populous state, it is estimated that taxpayers could have saved $90 million annually by abolishing the death penalty(61). Between 1977 and 1996, California spent more than $1 billion on its death penalty but managed to execute only five men, and one of them asked to be killed(61).

Lawyers can be the problem with it being fair or unfair, too. State-appointed lawyers don’t get paid very well, so they’re not going to want to even be there. If they don’t want to be there how are they going to want to put up a good fight. It’s not fair when two people, who committed the same crime, get two different sentences. All because one has the money to get a good lawyer and the other has to take a law-appointed lawyer. Law is just not fair. Therefore, if capital punishment was established, a lot of innocent people are going to lose their lives.

Unknowingly, we as a whole pay for the killing of others, through the money we pay for taxes. We pay more for one man or one woman to be killed than to imprison them for the rest of their lives. Could you live with knowing that you just paid for someone’s legal murder? What if that one person was innocent? There has been at times where an innocent person was put to death by capital punishment. So ponder on this question; How many innocent people have your tax dollars paid to be killed?

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