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Capital Punishment: Costs Of The Death Penalty - School Essays

Capital Punishment: Costs Of The Death Penalty

Let us suppose that killing as a form of punishment is a moral and
universally accepted practice. Would it then be acceptable to issue this
irreparable sanction to a select few while allowing others, equally accountable,
to avoid it? It is acceptable to our criminal justice system for it seems to be
standard operating procedure. Many embrace the death penalty based on the "eye
for an eye" concept. There is certainly some merit to this argument and it
seems quite fair and logical. Unfortunately our use of the death penalty is
neither fair nor logical. Our criminal justice system's "lip service" to the
age-old concept is an insulting disguise for such an obscurity of fairness ...

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prisoners for life. We probably do but the price
tag on issuing a death sentence according to a Florida study is $3.1 million
compared to $1 million for a life sentence; a 3100% difference (Walker 1994,
108). Imagine your death being valued at $3.1 million - how flattering. Based
on these figures, the difference in the price of an execution and the price of
life behind bars is enough to feed 7,200 starving children for ten years.
The price of an execution is amazing. Naturally, for such a price, we
should consider our "valued" return. In return for an execution we receive
utter incapacitation; an essential return indeed but we get the same from a life
sentence at a fraction of the cost. What else do we get? Perhaps we satisfy a
need for revenge. Perhaps we feel that we need to keep revenge alive at any
price. After all, we pay top dollar for it. So who exactly is the target of
our vengeance and why? From 1930 to 1980 executions for whites numbered ...

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Added: 11/28/2004 02:26:37 PM
Category: Legal Issues
Type: Free Paper
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