Death Penalty Is Wrong

The death penalty is a very immoral thing to do to someone. If life is the world greatest creation, why do other people have the right to take that away? If killing is a crime, would you not be committing a crime by killing the person who killed someone else? Since you killed someone, should you not be killed as well? Then the person, who killed you, should be executed as well and the killing will keep on going. Any number of wrongs does not make a right. Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a legal execution of a person who has committed a crime. The first established death penalty laws date as far back as the eighteenth century B.C. Nowadays; capital punishment is achieved using a lethal injection. They first inject the

People with higher income levels can afford private investigators, psychiatrists and very good lawyers. Forensic errors play a big part in wrongful convictions. For example, Santae Tribble a man living in Washington DC was accused of murdering a man. The FBI found a piece hair that “matched” Tribble and took him into custody. There was no evidence that pointed to Tribble other than that piece of hair. The jury believed that the forensics lab could not be that wrong and therefore Tribble stayed in jail for the next 22 years. In 2013, the forensics lab retested the 13 pieces of hair and none of them matched Santae Tribble. If Washington DC had capital punishment, this man would have lost his life for something he did not

States that have capital punishment, have a consistently higher murder rate, than states that do not. In 2011, the murder rate in states with the death penalty was 4.89. States that have abolished capital punishment have a murder rate of 4.13. That is an 18% difference. The highest percent difference in the past 10 years would be in 2005 when the percent difference was over 46%. The murder rate for death penalty states was 5.91 and the states without the death penalty had a murder rate of 4.03. There is no significant evidence that capital punishment deters crime at all. North Carolinas murder rate declined after they stopped executing people in 2006. The number of death sentences kept decreasing. In 2012, no one received the death sentence. If anything, capital punishment may have increased