The Death Penalty Makes Too Many Mistakes
We know that many innocent people have been sent to death row - over 125 have now been released from death row in the U.S. due to evidence of their wrongful convictions. The death penalty is also riddled with racial and economic bias and geographical arbitrariness.
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If someone was told the exact number of people that were wrongfully sentenced to death row, wouldn't it bother them? The fact that some people are being killed over something they didn't do is a disturbing thought, the least that can be done is offering a life sentence so we can say the justice system isn't directly killing an innocent individual.
So how long do we paying for the high cost of upkeep for prisoners who will never stay out of the system, even when they are given a second chance. Do the people they kill get this second chance?
I'm sorry, if you kill someone out of anger or just because you didn't like something they did, then that person deserves to die and not of natural cause sitting in our prison systems for us to pay for their keep.
Wait until they kill one of the members of your family and then see how you feel.
The Death Penalty should be mandatory in all 50 states.
Perhaps it would be more fair to allow everyone on death row a second trial; clearly if so many convicted have later been found innocent, there is some fundamental flaw in the judicial system.
That opens an entirely new issue, what about all the people who aren't on death row, who may be innocent? Is it too big an issue, leaving us saying "oh well"?
Just because a minority commits more crime is not racial bias. They commited the act's for which they are jailed.