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Arguments against the Death Penalty
Summary: The author argues that the death penalty is not an appropiate form of punishment because it is inhumane, emphasizes vengeance, is often inaccurately applied, and related trials cost more than non-death penalty trials.
The death penalty has ever been a just and correct form of control over people. The death penalty goes against one's morals, and as a society it's miserable for people's life to be taken away. In response to the death penalty it would be taking the life of a person for the lives of another. Having a person sentenced to death takes twice or even three times the cost for having a person life in jail. The cost for a death penalty trial is over two-million dollars. If the death penalty should be abolished in California by abolishing capital punishment the amount that would be saved is $90 million. The use of the death penalty enables a chain of violence and murder rate. A just society should not base itself on revenge for the act of the death of a person. One should take a more responsible measure for...
This section contains 900 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) |