The gravest issue related to the death penalty is the fear of executing an innocent person. To date, no one has ever been sentenced the death penalty, executed, then discovered to be innocent (Draper 35). But since 1973 there have been 102 people in 25 states that have been released from death row with evidence of their innocence. In many of these cases, the convict was proven innocent because somebody confessed to committing the crime. Considering that an extreme

Along with discrimination, cruel and unusual punishment, unfair trials, the wrongly accused, and the rights of the convicted are only some of the numerous aspects which show that the death penalty is not a logical, political, moral, or religiously acceptable means of punishment. Clearly the death penalty is not the way we should deal with America’s murderers and other convicted felon’s. Our government and society has to come up with a more socially acceptable way to punish criminals that doesn’t involve the taking of another human life. The death penalty needs to be abolished immediately, before an innocent mans life is accidentally brought to an end!

There are several other key reasons that the death penalty needs to be brought to an end which include the following. The death penalty costs approximately 2.16 million dollars per execution, which exceeds the cost of a life sentence (www.deathpenaltyinfo.org)! So the death penalty has cost the government nearly a billion excess dollars since 1976. The basis premise of the death penalty is also against numerous religious doctrines (www.2facts.com). Additionally, studies have shown that the death penalty has raised the level of murders in America (Bender 21). One proposed theory for this is that after citizens see the government murdering, they rationalize that murder is the answer for

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