Capital Punishment is Not Moral

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Should murderers and rapist be given the death penalty? Should you kill someone because they killed another? If you’re for or against capital punishment we can all agree that, one who commits a crime should be punished. Picking a side for capital punishment is a hard one because no one case is the same as the last one. Convection someone to capital punishment would cost more than just sending them to prison “One Ohio trial judge estimates a death penalty trial will cost 3-4 times as much as life-without-parole trail.” Study also shows that death penalty costs average as much as $10 million more per year per state than life sentence costs. Some of the contributing factors about the true costs of using the death penalty are that capital cases are more complicated and require more experts than normal cases, that both sides also spend more on investigative costs of a capital case.

Using capital punishment in states would also increase the wrongly accused of being killed for something that never happened. In the state of Texas, Anthony Graves was convicted in 1994 of assisting Robert Carter in multiple murders in 1992. Having no physical evidence linking Graves to the crimes, and his conviction relied on Carter’s testimony that Graves was his accomplice, A claim that was later recanted. After the help of a “special prosecutor” to help re-examine the case media was told “we found not one piece of credible evidence that links Anthony Graves to the commission of this capital murder. He is and innocent man” Another case in Alabama where Daniel Wade Moore was found guilty for murder and sexual assault of Karen

Tipton in 2002 he was sentenced to death by judge overruling the jury’s original consensus. However was acquitted in 2009 when 256 pages of withheld evidence were finally revealed.

Having the ability as a judge to give someone the death penalty is not always justifiable, Being the fact that the case of Daniel Wade Moore was found guilty for the fact that 256 pages of evidence were not reviled at the time of his trial, Giving the option as a judge to make a false accusation that could end up being a life that did nothing wrong. Cases like Daniel Moore’s gives judges the ability and the jury to make an accusation that is based upon evidence that is not all there. Some cases that arrive on a judge’s desk do not have all the evidence needed to uphold someone to being killed for something that cannot be 100% justified in the court of law.

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