Going into this paper I was very much in favor of the death penalty. Researching this subject has some what changed my mind. The first point that caught my attention was the cost of capital punishment, versus the cost of life imprisonment without the possibility of patrol. Also is the death penalty helping prevent or even lowering the number of homicides in this country? Also is the death penalty morally right, and what if we …showed first 75 words of 426 total…

…showed last 75 words of 426 total…uncertain. Executions had occurred in only about five hundredths of all the homicides committed in America in the 80’s. Finally, what if we get the WRONG GUY! Twenty-three people are believed to have been wrongfully executed in the United States in the Twentieth century. What do we tell the families of these innocent people? “Sorry about that whole us killing you husband, son, brother, mother, or sister, but he/she really looked like the killer.