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In 1995, Larry Griffin was sentenced to death for the murder of 19 year old Quintin Moss based on only one witness report. Almost 10 years later, new evidence by the NAACP had confirmed that Griffin was not involved in the crime, however, it was too late for he had already been executed. The death penalty, also known as capital punishment, is a sentence of execution for some form of crime such as murder, treason, espionage, war crimes, and large-scale drug trafficking. The death penalty in the United States is extremely flawed; it is applied unfairly and unequally, expensive, ineffectual against deterring crime, puts innocent lives at risk, and largely unethical. Despite the overwhelming evidence against capital punishment, thirty-one US states …show more content…
This is seen through the Death Penalty Information Center’s statistic of, “In New York and New Jersey, the high costs of capital punishment were one factor in those states' decisions to abandon the death penalty. New York spent about $170 million over 9 years and had no executions. New Jersey spent $253 million over a 25-year period and also had no executions.” The expense of capital punishment in the US is the highest in the world and according to BBC UK, “the cost of convicting and executing Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City Bombing was over $13 million.” Compared to life imprisonment, capital punishment is an unnecessary waste of taxpayers’ money, especially when the national debt is soaring and budget continues receiving cuts. Furthermore, spending money on executing reduces funds for genuine crime control measures such as crime prevention, mental health treatment, education, rehabilitation, and drug treatment program. The national government can reduce crime through other less expensive methods and abolishing capital punishment should be the first. By preventing crime, society does not need to worry about capital punishment from

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