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The Problem Of Capital Punishment In The United States

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Capital punishment has been in debate since early hangings, and will continue to be a subject of controversy untill our society identifies the irrationality of it 's existence in our judicial system. Currently capital punishment is being left up to the individual state as to whether or not they decide to implement it as a form of punishment. Advocates of this obscene form of punishment offer a handful of reasons justifying it 's use. At first glance these reasons seem to hold up, but one by one I will show you that these reasons are as ridiculous as the source they are trying to endorse. Ounce society is enlightened of these statistics, they will see that capital punishment has no place in the justice of this country.

The first claim of supporters is that they are under the opinion that it is much more expensive to keep a convicted criminal in prison for life than to simply pull their plug. At first glance this statement seems to be more than rational. The problem here is that people don 't realize the big picture of the situation at hand. Instead of capital punishment saving tax payers money, it actually does the complete opposite. Let me throw a couple of statistics at you that I gathered doing a paper last year. Currently to administer capital punishment upon a single individ ual it costs five times the amount than it would to inprison somebody from the age of eighteen to eighty years old. How this statement can be valid is due to the reasons that when

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