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The Cons of Death Penalty
Indeed, there is no denying that the champions and proponents of death penalty see it as a
method of punishing capital offenders. Whatever other arguments they may front to rationalize
this path, the death penalty does not add up, both from the social and economic viewpoints. First,
death penalty discriminates against the poor. The litigation and defense largely depend, and in
fact determine the outcome thereof, on the financial endowment of the person in question, where
in many instances the poor end up through this severity even when the circumstances around the
case would have dictated otherwise. There are several cases documented of people who had been
convicted and sentenced for death only to be exonerated later for innocence for lack of concrete
evidence to warrant such a legal and judicial path. Further to this, evidence suggests that race and
place play an integral role in these executions where the system hooks up the people who are not
in favor with the legal and judicial enforcers. Death penalty as such passes only as an under
carpet avenue in which the government exterminates its citizens. In fact, the proper word, in this
case, is persecution and nothing less.
Furthermore, sufficient evidence from research as conducted with the involvement of the
police and other stakeholders, reveal that death penalty does not, in fact, deliver on its pivotal
objective it was intended for; which is crime deterrent. Let us face it, nobody learns by dying,
