Since the being of time capital punishment was used as means punishment and a means of a message to not break the law. Through out history many theories have been tossed about, one of them is quite offend used for justification for the death penalty. An eye for an eye , a tooth for a tooth. But with such theories come issue for concern. Issues which make the death penalty not seem like such a great concept.
             The number one issue that many people in America are pushing is the fact or the possibility of executing a innocent person. Great effort has been made in pretrial, trial, appeals, writ and clemency procedures to minimize the chance of an innocent being convicted, sentenced to death or executed. Since 1973, legal protections have been so extraordinary that 37% of all death row cases have been overturned for due process reasons or commuted. Indeed, inmates are six times more likely to get off death row by appeals than by execution. And, in fact, many of those cases were overturned based on post conviction new laws, established by legislative or judicial decisions in other cases.
             Another issue with the death penalty is a cost factor. A study by Indiana's Criminal Law Study Commission found this to be true, assuming that 20% of death sentences are overturned and re-sentenced to life. Now comparative with the difference of crime is a sub- category of this issue. In
             a new report released by the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury recommended changes to the states costly death penalty and called into question its effectiveness in preventing crime. The Office of Research noted that it lacked sufficient data to accurately account for the total cost of capital trials, stating that because cost and time records were not maintained, the Office of Research was unable to determine the total, comprehensive cost of the death penalty in Tennessee." Although noting that, "no reliable data exists concerning the
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