eath penalty have not risen and furthermore sentencing offenders to life time imprisonment results inexpensive compared to condemning them to death row. A Duke University student found that the death penalty costs North Carolina $2.6 million per execution over the costs of a non-death penalty murder case with a sentence of life term imprisonment (CWRL). Finally capital punishment is seen as cruel and barbaric, it demonstrates lack of respect for human life, it wastes resources such as time and money, and not deterrent to crime.
             There have been many cases in which offenders have been sentenced to capital punishment, and more than once has it occurred that the victim of this inhumane retribution been found innocent of all charges; yet it was far too late and the victim's life was cruelly taken away from them. According to the 1987 Stanford University survey, over 23 Americans have been wrongly executed in the 20th century. If they were sentenced to lifetime imprisonment opposed to the death penalty, then the victims could have at least been released instead of killed for a crime they did not commit. Since 1973, after evidence emerged of their innocence of the crimes they were said to have committed, an estimate of 116
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