The Death Penalty

The purpose of this research paper is to fulfill my needs on answering some questions that I have about the Death Penalty. Like, if someone is convicted of murder, sentenced to death, then why does it take so long for them to be executed? I also am interested in other facts that go along with this, such as tax dollars being spent, the average time an inmate sits on death row and the public opinion on the death penalty. When I first started my research, I knew little to nothing about the Death Penalty and why it takes so long for them to carry out the sentence. I honestly didn’t give it much thought. I just felt if they were guilty, that they needed to be put to death. Then, I started to ask myself how much does all this cost? People do not realize how much money goes in to the system for death penalties. I was astonished to find out that according to an article that I read in the Sacramento Bee, California alone could save more than $90 Million dollars a year and over $1 billion over 5 years by eliminating the Death Penalty All together. Eliminating the Death Penalty for that reason makes a ton of sense, but I still don’t agree with it. Then I started to think to myself if one state is saving this much money, then why isn’t every other state considering abolishing the death Penalty? Well, according to Truce, A. (March 12th 2009) “Saving Lives and Money”, New York Times, currently 14 states have banned capital punishment and other states are considering following suite like, Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas and New Hampshire to name a few. After some consideration and the way I felt about the Death Penalty, it just makes a little more sense to me to get rid of it for the economy, at least for a while. Even though I never liked that fact that it took so long for inmates to be put to death, knowing my hard earned tax dollars and were being spent on them. So I had to ask the question why? Why did it take so long? Well, after some digging on “Death...