Essay About Death Penalty And Good Point

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I disagree with the author, the death penalty does not deter violent crimes. If anything it helps promote the United States as a violent nation. People know of the consequences and still commit murders, and this will not change there will always be deranged members of society no matter what we do. There is another option, life in prison. Life in prison is cheaper and the murders are taken out of society for the rest of there natural life. So why take another life when we dont have to? When I was younger I use to strongly believe in the death penalty, but as I grew older and wiser I realized there are many other factors to think about then just the death of the murder. Factors such as the family of the murder, and tax payers dollars being wasted are important things to think about. A question I was soon asking myself was if murdering is wrong, why do we do it to justify one? And to answer that question, I really don’t know and no one else seems to know the answer. Although, the author does have a good point with the two cases he provides there are many other cases in which there have been men put to death, to only be later found innocent with