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 * __Death Penalty__**

Many people have been put on death row and killed innocently. Recent studies have said that more than 416 people have been convicted and then killed since the 1900’s. Also over 120 people have been released with evidence of their innocence since 1973. Since 1976, 1004 people have been executed. Some researchers say that the death penalty deters crime. When in fact the executions may cause an increase in the number of homicides. This is called “brutalization hypothesis” suggests that the modeling of the death penalty can increase homicides.

Did you know that costs more of the tax payers money to have somebody on death row and be killed, rather than having them on life sentence? In 1982 a study in New York said that the average capital murder trail and the first stage of appeals cost U.S. tax payers 1.8 million dollars. The inmates go through at least ten years of appeals and the judges and lawyers need be paid. Even if the government hires a lawyer that doesn’t charge much its still money. Money that can be helping a poor community be rebuilt or schools. It can cost 2.2 million dollars to obtain and carry out the death penalty. In California the death penalty system costs more than $114 million per year beyond the cost of keeping an inmate on life sentence. Tax payers have paid more than $ 250 million for each of California’s eleven executions.

The death penalty is a cruel and unusual punishment. Since 1976, 836people have been killed by lethal injection, 152 by electrocution, eleven in the gas chamber, three by hanging, and two by firing squad. If you don’t know what the firing squad is, its when armed group of individual usually soldiers who are ordered to shoot at the inmate. No individual of the firing squad is allowed to not shoot the inmate. Thirty-seven states use the lethal injection method.

Many people believe that the death penalty is morally wrong. No person or the society has the right to decide if a person should be killed. Life is sacred and no one not even the government can be able to take the life from another person. The desire for vengeance Is mostly what the death penalty is about. The desire for vengeance is unconstitutional under gods rules.