Capital Punishment

Capital Punishment

Capitol Punishment

In some cases,   I believe the United States should continue to used Capitol Punishment. I believe it should be used in cases where a person has committed a crime against helpless children , helpless elders, and helpless mental retarded people that can not think for themselves or have brain capacity of a child. I believe they should not sit in prison for years before they die. I think that gives them a chance to ask for forgiveness and plus I feel it hurts the family of the person they have murdered. Many people know the consequences of killing a person in cold blood for no sensible reason. For the people that know about and still commit the crimes and feel that they are untouchable. These are the people I feel should receive capitol punishment.

There are some many interesting facts about capitol punishment. The total   number of executions   since 1976 is 1226. That is a really high number of people getting executed for a crime they committed. The   state that committed the most executions since 1976 is Texas, that is where they   executed 463 people. A lot of executions that took place in the Unites states were for interracial murders, only 15 people were executed   when a   black victim killed a white person. But also in the facts ,there have been 216 black people killed because they killed a white person   in an interracial murder. Florida had 2310 people that are on death row since 2010. There have also been 1052 lethal injection since 1976. From the information I have read on capital punishment , It looks like the financial part of capital punishment is as followed: In California the death penalty system cost the tax pays $114 million per year beyond the cost of keeping a person alive in jail for   life.   Based on my research, “The homicide rate in the states that care the death penalty is almost double the rate in the states without the death penalty. It is not known whether this is due to: people in high homicide states demanding the...