Death Penalty
Should the death penalty be allowed?
Why is this a issue?
Pros & Cons
Pro: Cost of Death vs. Life in Prison- There also appears to be no question that, over time, equivalent LWOP cases are much more expensive... than death penalty cases.
Pro: Morality- The crimes of rape, torture, treason, kidnapping, murder, larceny, and perjury pivot on a moral code that escapes apodictic [indisputably true] proof by expert testimony or otherwise.
Con: Race- The U.S. Department of Justice’s own figures reveal that between 2001 and 2006, 48 percent of defendants in federal cases in which the death penalty was sought were African Americans… the biggest argument against the death penalty is that it is handed out in a biased, racially disparate manner.
Con: Income Level- "Who pays the ultimate penalty for crimes? The poor. Who gets the death penalty? The poor. After all the rhetoric that goes on in legislative assemblies, in the end, when the net is cast out, it is the poor who are selected to die in this country.
Con: Irrevocable Mistakes- Since the reinstatement of the modern death penalty, 87 people have been freed from death row because they were later proven innocent. That is a demonstrated error rate of 1 innocent person for every 7 persons executed.
Citations
PIctures: http://desertpeace.wordpress.com/2011/10/02/death-to-the-death-penalty/
http://syrophoenicianwoman.blogspot.com/2013/05/inequality-and-death-penalty.html
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-02-18/news/bs-ed-death-penalty-letter-20130218_1_death-penalty-mercy-afterlife http://www.thomhartmann.com/users/thinkingblue/blog/2011/09/state-sanctioned-murder-or-those-weak-stomachs-death-penalty