Pros And Cons Of The Death Penalty

The Death Penalty

The death penalty is not always the best way to handle things when it comes to the justice system. Recent studies have shown that blacks are quicker to receive the death penalty than whites. For example; Jurors in Washington state are three times more likely to recommend a death sentence for a black defendant than for a white defendant in a case. This is not right and that shows that the justice system may or may not be very judgmental, but It all depends on what state your in. Recent studies from another observation show that In Louisiana, the odds of a death sentence were 97% higher for those whose victim was white than for those whose victim was black. This study was conducted in 2011. A study in California found that

This study was conducted in 2012. A lot of murders happen in the south. Consistent with previous years, the 2014 FBI Uniform Crime Report showed that the South had the highest murder rate. The South accounts for over 80% of executions. The Northeast has less than 1% of all executions, had lowest murder rate. According to a survey of the former and present presidents of the country’s top academic criminological societies, 88% of these experts rejected the notion that the death penalty acts as a deterrent to murder. 34 states plus the US government use lethal injection as their primary method. Some states utilizing lethal injection have other methods available as backups. Though New Mexico and Connecticut have abolished the death penalty, their laws were not retroactive, leaving prisoners on the states’ death rows and their lethal injection protocols intact. Defense costs for death penalty trials in Kansas averaged about $400,000 per case, compared to $100,000 per case when the death penalty was not sought. In Maryland, an average death penalty case resulting in a death sentence costs approximately $3 million. The eventual costs to Maryland taxpayers for cases pursued 1978-1999 will be $186 million. Five executions have