Justice Is Not Served

Justice is Not Served

Capital punishment is one of today's hottest issues in United States society. The United States is one out of the few seventy-three countries in the world that still use this barbaric way of punishing it's citizens. The death penalty is sending the wrong message to criminals and has not been effecting criminal's decisions to commit murder. Capital punishment is the wrong way to punish American criminals.

One of the issues concerning the death penalty is economic funding. Many citizens are under the impression that the death penalty saves money for the United States. In all truthfulness, capital punishment costs citizens the same amount if not more than life sentenced prisoners. Between the appeals and funding them while on death row, capital punishment does nothing to help the economy.

"If there were ever any validity to the deterrence argument, it is negated by the endless appeals, delays, technicalities, and retrials that keep persons condemned to death waiting for execution for years on end." (Cauthen 8)

The death penalty is not the quick way out with no cost that many people believe it is.

Even though the United States prides itself in being one of the most developed countries in the world, it drags itself down in the company of those who still use capital punishment. Just a few of these accompanying countries are Afghanistan, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, and Japan. We are fighting in some of these countries about their government and ethics, yet we still use the same policies to punish criminals.

Despite all these looming disadvantages to capital punishment many people still support this idea. Opposing views believe that this causes the criminal to think twice before committing a crime. If it is causing criminals to think twice, shouldn't the murder rate be lower with capital punishment? In Canada, after capital punishment was abolished,