Death Penalty Statistics

Imagine for a moment that someone you knew was murdered. They soundly slept in their home of twenty-two years that they deemed safe enough for their children and safe enough for themselves. The house is in a small community, the type of community where everyone knows everyone else. They had raised one child who is now in high school, one child is still in grade school, and two have yet to start school. As they …

…punishment is also much cheaper than life long sentences, by $1.13 million. Think how much money the American taxpayers could save if they sent all the convicts that would have been sent to life in prison, and put them to death instead. The justice should see no reason to not use criminal punishment more often, and more swiftly. They should not hesitate in using the death sentence because, quite honestly, there is no reason not to.