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However, it has been proven that states with the death penalty sanctioned have higher murder rates than those without. ... Several people directly, and at times indirectly, affected by the criminals favor the death penalty to compensate for the wrongdoing the criminal has done to the family of the victim. ... It is wrong for everyone involved: the innocent that is being prosecuted, criminals, the family of the victim, and our nation as a whole. ...
Second, even if this is a true description of the cost of capital punishment in the United States and other developed countries, it is not representative of the cost of criminal executions worldwide. ... Finally, even if executing criminals is more costly than life imprisonment, it is not immediately obvious that the extra expense either contributes to a greater balance of social unhappiness or even tips the balance towards unhappiness. ... These are terrible crimes, committed in the states with the largest death row and the largest score of government sanctioned killings. ... The danger that...
Since our nation's founding, the government, colonial, federal and state, has punished murder and, until recent years, Rape with the ultimate sanction: death. ... Our criminal justice system cannot be made fail-safe because it is run by human beings, who are fallible? ...