Should The Death Penalty Be Illegal Through The Nation

Why should the death penalty be illegal through the nation? Murder is wrong we all know and come to the understanding of that. Ask yourself, then, what is capital punishment? Capital punishment is defined as the legally authorized killing of someone as punishment for a crime. The death penalty also known as capital punishment is an issue that have the United States quite divided. While there are many supporters of it, there is also a large amount of disapproval. Currently there are thirty-three states in which the death penalty is legal and seventeen state that have abolished it. According to death penalty information center reports stated that â€Å"The total number of death row exonerations in the united†¦show more content†¦A thread full of debatable and opposing data controversy is by both sides of the death penalty disagreement related to the cost of its administration and why it is continued to be used even though life in prison is more cost efficient. The high cost o f the death penalty is far more expensive than life without parole because the constitution requires a long composite judicial process for capital cases. The process is needed in order to ensure that innocent men and women are executed for a crime that they didn’t commit. Cost incurred to administer the death penalty punishment includes incarceration cost, trail cost, and an expensive appeals process. The cost to actually put the criminal to death are not the primary costs associated with the sentence. The real cost for the death penalty are spent on two attorneys for the defendant, expert eyewitness, jury selection, investigation cost, two trail including one for the verdict and one for sentencing, and then an automatic appeals process. When the death penalty is required as a punishment, rarely do the decedent plead guilty therefore, if the state does not win a death penalty verdict they still sustain cots of live imprisonment on top of trail cost. A Seattle University study examining show that in 2010 report prepared for the judicial conference of the United States found that between 1989 and 1977 the median cost of a federal death penalty case that went to trial was $269,139 between 1998 and 2004 it had grown