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When we talk about the death penalty there are several things that come to mind. The three most significant are those concerning the penalties cost versus those of life with out possibility of parole, the second being concerns of executing an innocent person, and the final major area of concern is Christianity and how it is against Christian beliefs. This paper will give cover some of the factual details on the death penalty and where it stands today. The death penalty and life without the possibility of parole have many differences. The average time spent in jail for a person serving a LWOP term is 50 years (life expectancy of average person in jail). While on the other hand the average time spent in jail by a person on death row is 6 years. The most significant of the differences is the cost of each one. LWOP’s total cost averages around $3.8 million and the average cost of the death penalty is $1.88 million. (These numbers are according to the U.S. Vital Statistics and the LWOP does not include care for older patients in prison or the treatment of such diseases as hepatitis and HIV. Both amounts do include the cost of pre-trial and appeals cost.) According to Time Magazine issue date February 7, 1994 says that Texas has the largest amounts of people serving on death row. Texas has set the standard for making murders pay for what they have done by wrongly taking the life of another person. If all states followed guidelines that Texas has set our costs for prisoners might go down. So George Bush wasn’t only doing what he thought was morally right in Texas he was helping tax costs go down by being a major supporter of the death penalty. Economically the death penalty is better because not only does it save tax dollars but it also decreases prison population. Another area of major concern is the possibility of executing an innocent person. Now according to capital punishment statistics from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) since 1973 many laws have been passed so many in fact that over 37% of death penalty involved cases have been thrown out of court for reasons of due process.
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