For years outrageous crimes have caused the government to use the death penalty for capital crimes. This has been acceptable by most people in the past, but in the last relatively few years, more and more people have questioned the morality of the punishment. The arguments on both sides are valid, but in my opinion the anti-death penalty faction is correct. The death penalty is even proven unconstitutional according to amendment 5 in the Bill of Rights. There should be some kind of standard for giving out the death penalty, rather than the prosecutors choosing the consequence based in their own opinions. Some people believe that it is morally wrong, and besides, it costs more to kill them. The last argument is the one, which most people believe in and fear the most, what if some people put to death were innocent after all? These reasons to me are the perfect cause to stop the death penalty.
             In the Bill of Rights, amendment 4 states: no one shall be deprived of life, liberty, and property, but that is exactly what the death penalty does, it takes away the life and freedom of whomever the convict is. Even if this the penalty was constitution, there should be some uniform standard set to decide whether a punishment this harsh can be given out or not, a sort of rubric, like those for grading essays. This is a serious problem, already, since 1976, 879 people have died because of the death, and almost half of them from Texas and Virginia alone.
             When a person is put on death row, the condemned have a chance for various appeals to court. There is also a required re-trial and hearing from the Supreme Court. After all that has taken place, and the money is spent on the gases of whatever is used to kill, vast amounts of money are spent on the inmates. Without the cost of court time required when the person is sentenced, the average cost per person is millions a year. For example in New York the cost in 1.8 million per person w
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