Death Penalty
Death Penalty Approximately 525 people have been executed in the United States since the reinstatement of the Death Penalty in 1976 . ... Herein lies my problem with the death penalty. ... If approximately 3,500 people are on death row awaiting execution, what is the acceptable failure rate for innocent people to be executed to make it an allowable alternative for Americans? ... The death penalty doesn’t deter crime. The death penalty is a punishment. ... The death penalty makes few people in this country feel better. The few people that do feel that this penalty is a worthwhile punishment do so at a huge cost.