Against death penalty paper

Question

i am doing a reasearch paper aginst the death penalty and i need 3 major catagories of support. Can you plaese help me

Answer 1

It costs taxpayers more money to kill an inmate than it does to house them for life.  

Answer 2

Category 1 - there is a very real risk of executing innocent people.  In the last 30 years in the U.S. alone, over 100 people have been released from death row because they were exonerated by DNA evidence. Unfortunately, DNA evidence is not available in most cases. No matter how rare it is, the government should not risk executing one single innocent person.

Category 2 - Because of higher pre-trial expenses, longer trials, extra expenses associated with prosecuting a DP case, and the appeals process (which is necessary - see Category 1), it costs taxpayers MUCH more to execute prisoners than to imprison them for life.

Category 3 - The deterrent effect is questionable at best. Violent crime rates are actually higher in death penalty jurisdictions. This may seem counterintuitive, and there are many theories about why this is (Ted Bundy saw it as a challenge, so he chose Florida – the most active execution state at the time – to carry out his final murder spree).  Personally, I think it has to do with the hypocrisy of taking a stand against murder…by killing people. The government becomes the bad parent who says, ‘do as I say, not as I do.’

You can find support for all three at the www.deathpenaltyinfo.org.

I hope that helps - good luck on your paper!

Answer 3

Everything you need is right here

http://www.antideathpenalty.org/

other than the immediate need of self preservation in a life threatening situation,

no matter what lame excuse you try to use, trying to justify killing a human being is a sign of mental illness regardless of being a criminal or trying to enforce law

keep in mind the "Pro-Life" movement was first a movement against the death penalty

Answer 4

There's a story in the news about a group of illegal immigrant gang members who are being killed now. They came across some teenage girl walking home. They beat them, whiped and choked them with belts, gang raped them, killed one girl while the other watch, then killed her and they took turns jumping on the girls necks to break them and make sure they died. You still think we shoudln't kill people? You'd rather spend tax payer money to let these guys get three meals a day for the next 60 years?

Answer 5

Look here under "issues" Everything you could ever need and more!

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/

Answer 6

I agree with answerer number two. It's called a RESEARCH paper, not a Use other people's ideas from yahoo, paper. It means you do the research yourself.

Answer 7

What part of "RESEARCH paper" do you not understand?  Asking questions on YA is not a reliable research method.