esently, is that crime is not
             decreasing, but rather increasing. If capital punishment is supposed to deter
             crimes such as murder, it is not serving its purpose. Even philosophers, such as
             Beccaria, Voltaire, and Bentham of the Enlightenment Period, argued that "the
             death penalty was needlessly cruel, overrated as a deterent, and occasionally
             imposed in fatal error" (Fogelson 89).
             Another problem with the death penalty is the enormous amount of money
             being spent on implementation. It costs taxpayers millions of dollars more to
             execute a criminal than to lock him up for life. The number of prisoners on
             death row has been steadily increasing and will soon meet all time highs. This
             fact brings up the question of economic feasibility of the implementation, as
             well as the question of weather the death penalty is actually an effective
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