Robert W. Lee opens his argument with discussing capital punishment as a deterrent of crime. Lee explains that “due to costly delays and endless appeals, the death penalty has been largely turned into a paper tiger by the same crowd that calls for its abolition on the grounds that it is not an effective deterrent” (316). Lee feels that because of the ineffective implementation of the death penalty its use as a deterrent has been lost. He describes this scenario by saying that “any punishment, including death, will cease to be an effective deterrent if it is recognized as mostly bluff” (316). Lastly, Lee attempts to show that capital punishment can have an impact by citing the state of Utah’s lowered murder ratio after administering capital punishment.

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Freedman identifies the connection between the exorbitant cost of capital cases and the endless appeals primarily associated with habeas corpus. However Freedman goes on to say “To eliminate all those endless appeals either would require weakening the system for everyone of differentially with respect to death penalty cases” (327). Freedman makes the argument that the most effective way to lower the cost of capital cases, other than eliminating the death penalty, is to provide more money to the defense in the beginning of the trial. He goes on to say “the innocent would be acquitted speedily; the less culpable would be sentenced promptly to lesser punishments; and the result of the trials of those defendants convicted and sentenced to death ordinarily would be final” (327).

Freedman’s most compelling argument involves the discrimination against minority, income, and mental disabilities. Supporting his stance with considerable evidence and statistics, Freedman explains that one common reaction to this evidence is not to deny it, but to avoid the facts and take refuge that any system for guarding against racial discriminations would mean the end of the death penalty. He goes on to say “

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