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Conclusion

To conclude, death penalty should be banned in the United States and there are several disadvantages to convict a criminal to death: the ignorance of human rights and innocent defendants, the significant cost of execution and discrimination. Although numerous stats are insistent to abolish capital punishment since they believe this measure against crime and effective to reduce horrible crimes, the fact is, its disadvantages outweigh advantages. In my opinion, criminals could suffer more pain in jail and therefore we can use life imprisonment to take the place of death penalty.

Death penalty trend

In recent days, large number of groups has considered other alternative punishments instead of death penalty. There are statistics which demonstrated that death sentences have dropped down dramatically each year. In addition, capital punishment has been abolished in Connecticut (a state in the USA) on April, 2012, which may has potential influence on other abolitionists’ behaviour. In spite of Connecticut, 16 states have already joined the group in rejecting capital punishment. Not to mention the United States, use of death penalty has shrink worldwide and the number of death sentences has continuing declining.

Death penalty and racism

One of the most significant issues associated with death penalty is the injustice of racial minorities. There are studies have imply that defendants of minorities groups took up a large proportion in the United States and those who made the conviction to criminals are mostly white. Furthermore, those results established that black victims are more likely to be executed than white victims. For example, in Philadelphia, eighty-three per cent of criminals who are sentenced to death are African-black. The researchers against death penalty even indicate that the injustice treatment of blacks has been experienced for a long period, compare other defendants, black victims were obviously more likely to get death sentence in the year between 1983 and 1993.

Execution is costly

There is an assumption that capital punishment is far more costly than imprisonment of criminals which is accepted by most countries. Researches have indicate that, in the USA, the real cost of capital punishment is even more costly than conviction of prisoning the whole life of criminals. It was estimated that the execution system spend $137 million annually and a maximum of life imprisonment only cost less than one-tenth of it. Compare to other alternative convictions of criminals, the legal system spend most on death penalty during the process of trial. Despite the procedure of trial, putting a criminal in death row further requires investigation of crimes which may take a long period. For instance, experts against capital punishment have demonstrate that execution association in Texas(a state of United States) have considerable amount of cost in the last century which involes$530 million for all execution cases and extra one million dollars to sentence to death of a criminal in death row. Apart from the fact in Texas, it is believed that the implementation of capital punishment have a large amount of unnecessary expense in other states as well. It is time for the USA to reconsider feasibility of death penalty.

Innocent defendants

Perhaps the most critical defend for the abolitionists on capital punishment have been the conviction or execution of innocent person. There is a report on the claim of death row demonstrates that nearly 69 person have been released since new evidences have proven their innocence after 1973. For the United States, the justification system has already created more and more failures. For example, the report tells various cases of criminals like Rolando Cruz, released after 10 years on Illinois's conviction on 1985.Neverthless,   Cruz has went through two times convictions and another man had confessed to the crime on 1994.Despite the errors on Cruz, Sabrina Butler, who achieved freedom after five years on Mississippi’s death row because of a prosecution that she was trying to murder her own child. Fortunately, it is turned out that the baby was possibly died of disease. In addition, there is an occasion consist of cases in which the defendant has been threw off of death row after new evidence found. Nevertheless, a conviction against them still remains. There is considerable evidence indicate that wrongful capital punishment has increased and this method certainly brings pain to the person whose crime was pinned on the wrong defendent.

Human right

In the modern society, as I mentioned before, one of the most significant rights for human beings is the right to live out one’s life. Many people who against death execution have heartfelt expressions and they regard it as immoral ability. For instance, Nobel Peace prize winner Andrei Sakharov indicates that it was unreliable to insist death penalty in a country like United States since he convinced execution was just ‘answer violence with violence’. Furthermore, a group of scholars hold the viewpoint that punishing the criminals could not bring back the victims’ life and they also debate that death penalty has become a form of murder.

Human rights

A group of people hold the idea that death penalty is the violation of human rights since they believed that the right of living is the basic right for all human beings and people has no right to kill others. In these experts point of view, capital punishment could be regarded as both physical and mental torture towards criminals. For some developed countries such as Spain, Singapore and Switzerland which have abandoned execution laws in the recent few years, they strongly agreed that capital punishment should be deprived.

Introduction:

When we are shook by the news that a serial murderer has killed people again after released from prison, or an innocent person who was sentenced to death before the new evidence found, arguments about death penalty has increased. Every countries has faced the problem that how to deal with the extremely bad criminals .Consequently, these societies have decided to use Capital Punishment. In human history, few people have questioned if execution of criminals are justified and humane. On the contrary, a large numbers of societies believed these punishments are necessary since the majorities still fear of dying and it would certainly prevent someone from committing a crime. In my point of view, I quite agree with the statement that capital punishment should be banned and the reasons are chiefly as follows.