Abolish The Death Penalty

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The death penalty is a legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime. There is no evidence that capital punishment changes crimes or murder rates. Scientific studies have failed to demonstrate that executions deter people from committing crime anymore than long prison sentences. States without the death penalty have much lower murder rates. Capital punishment is legal in 32 states. Life in prison is a worse punishment. With a death sentence the suffering is over in an instant. Even though the death penalty gives closure to the victim’s families who have suffered so much, the death penalty should not be allowed, because there is always a possibility that the inmate is not guilty, and people who commit a crime should pay for the consequences while alive in a cell.
The death penalty gives closure to the victim’s families who have suffered so much. Families never fully recover from the loss of a loved one, but the death penalty can provide closure to these families. The murderer has suffered his family and friends of a loved one. There are many victims with a single murder and when the criminal gets caught and convicted, it is understood that the punishment will be severe. The prisoners family must suffer from seeing their loved one put to death. Another example is that it shows that the death penalty gives closure to the victim’s families who have suffered so much. If a person murders another innocent person then the death penalty gives closure to the victim’s families who have suffered a lot.
Even though the death penalty gives closure to the victims’ families who have suffered so much, the death penalty should not be allowed, because is always the possibility that the inmate is not guilt...

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...January 2014. Thirty women have been executed since the reinstatement of the death penalty in 1976 as of January 2014. The U.S. government and U.S. military have approximately 63 people awaiting execution as of January 2014.
So you can see that since the death penalty gives closure to the victim’s families who have suffered so much the death penalty should not be allowed for two main reasons. First, because there is always a possibility that the inmate is not guilty. But most importantly, people who commit a crime should pay the consequence while alive in a cell. There are many reasons of the death penalty should not be allowed. Now that I explained many reasons of why the death penalty should not be allowed, do you still agree that we should have it in the U.S.? Do we have a right to take someone’s life? So does executing someone make us any better than a murder?

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