Death penalty hypocritical, wastes money

According to the Death Penalty Information Center, since 1976 there has been a total of 1,446 American citizen lives taken by the death penalty. The number is steadily increasing, as the death penalty is still legal in 32 states. Imagine brutally murdering someone to the point to where a jury, a judge, and even your own lawyer finds you guilty of all accounts and you are now put on death row. You go to your next trial in hopes of being taken off of death row; instead you have just been informed that you didn't meet the jury's nor the judge's standard of being taken off death row. You are now sent to prison patiently waiting for you death date. You never know when your going to die your life is no longer your life. You're now thinking, why am I about to die for killing someone else? Is this even right? My answer to this question, with strong conviction, is a flat out no.

The first reason killing people “lawfully” is wrong is that it's one of the most hypocritical things that the government allows . The breakdown of what the law states is that if you and the jury or judge finds you guilty of a case that either involves murder or rape, it's punishable by death. So basically, if you kill you will be killed for killing. How does that work? The government is ultimately contradicting itself.

The second reason that the death penalty should not be legal is because the government is playing God, meaning they are deciding when a person should die, which should really only be up to God or fate, especially when the government has the potential to be wrong about the reason they are killing.There have been 12 cases from all over the nation where the government has killed innocent people on death row. God doesn't kill the innocent, he doesn't make mistakes, but people can . The judge, jury, your lawyer can all make mistakes; God cannot. Really think about it. Someone who has gone to school for 12+ years is allowed to put your life at an end just because they have the title as a judge. A jury that has never met you once in your life, people who don't know a thing about are allowed to pull the plug on your life.

A final reason that the death penalty is wrong is that too many tax dollars from hard working citizens go towards funding the appeals process for inmates on death row. According to Amensty.org on average it costs 1.26 million dollars to keep someone on death row alive, plus the average fee of 740,000 dollars to finish off their death sentence. The cost is so high because inmates typically petition to have their death sentences overturned, which is called the appeals process, and more often than not these inmates are poor and cannot afford their own attorney, so the government appoints them one. Furthermore, the government is who is fighting the appeal, so on both sides there are government lawyers fighting each other, and this is extremely expensive. Good hard working citizens shouldn't have to have money come out of their pay checks ck to pay the government lawyers in death penalty cases.. People work too hard for that, people have lives, families , things to do. Some individuals don't even know that's what their hard working money is spent on.

When it comes to certain crimes many judges along with jury members believe that they have made the right decision to end a “criminal's” life, they feel as though they are doing their duty as American citizens. People feel power when they can dictate whether or not a person should live, based off a crime. Most states have outlawed having the death penalty because of many of it's citizens disagreeing so much that they had to outlaw it. I feel like this isn't enough though. We should have it outlawed not only in a few states but all of the nation .

We need to have a come together and end all death penalty not only because the cost, not only because it's contradicting itself, but because it's unlawful. We need to as a nation get congress attention and allow them to make the decision to end all death penalty sentences in all states across America. If you would like to find more information about how the death penalty works please go to http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/states-and-without-death-penalty.