Why Is Death Penalty Wrong

Death Penalty Annually the U.S government wastes an additional 261 million dollars having criminals on death row. It is said that the death penalty deters crime and helps to prevent further heinous crimes such as murder. I can see this because you would assume people would think about the repercussions before they commit a crime. However this is completely wrong and has no statical evidence to back it up rather statistics to oppose it. The death penalty needs to be abolished because of the cost, wrongful deaths and ineffectiveness. The cost to house a prisoner is much less than carrying out the death penalty. In the United States because of the appeals and different things the a criminal spends a long time on death row before ebbing executed

Since the death penalty has been put in there has been numerous cases where innocent people have been put to death, including Claude Jones. “ The tests revealed that a strand of hair found at the scene of a liquor-store shooting did not belong to Claude Jones, as was originally implied by the prosecution. Instead, the hair belonged to the victim. Jones was executed for the murder of the store's owner. The strand of hair was the only piece of physical evidence that placed Jones at the scene of the crime, and this revelation raises the question of whether Texas executed the wrong person for the murder.” (Executed But Possibly Innocent). Cases like this one in specific show the negatives of the death penalty. If there was no death penalty they wouldn't have rushed to execute him on false information and this DNA mix-up would've come to light while he was still in prison. But instead of him walking free an innocent man was put to death. Another example of a miscarriage of justice is in the case of Cameron Willingham who was executed in 2004 for an alleged 1992 arson and triple murder. ”Arson expert Gerald Hurst said, "There's nothing to suggest to any reasonable arson investigator that this was an arson fire. It was just a fire." Former Louisiana State University fire instructor Kendall Ryland added, "[It] made me sick to think this guy was executed based on this investigation.... They executed this guy and they've just got no idea - at least not scientifically - if he set the fire, or if the fire was even intentionally set.” (Executed But Possibly Innocent). Willingham was put to death on little to no evidence that there was even a crime committed let alone that it was him that did it. He was put to death despite multiple experts saying it wasn't even an arson fire. Even a single wrong death by the U.S. government isn't acceptable and there are many proven to be wrongful convictions that no death penalty could've