Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment also knew as the Death Penalty is a term used for an inmate about to be put to death. The death penalty is an asinine way for a person to die, considering the many different techniques such as lethal injection, electrocution, beheading and a firing squad. The death penalty is still very commonly used in the United States by 40 states. I myself am very against this cruel way to kill a person for the harm he/she has done; being put on death row is just taking the easy way out/ The best punishment is simply just being locked up and throwing away the key. Capital punishment is highly costing alone and judicial problems that should be abolished in the United States. By killing people for the harm they have done we are forgetting about human rights.

The most intriguing debate about capital punishment is the amount of money it takes to execute a person. In 2007 Governor Jon Corzine of New Jersey eliminated the death penalty due to a heinous 4.2 million dollars per person (2009, March 7). The debate of whether it would be more money for a prisoner to spend life in prison doesn’t take a mathematician to figure out. According to the Bureau of Judicial Statistics it costs roughly around $65 a day to house a life sentence inmate. So in layman’s terms it would cost $23,725 a year, so for 65 years it would average to about 1 million. That is 3 million dollars cheaper than the death penalty, but states oblige take this into effect.