Death Penalty should be abolished in the US

"Not an effective deterrent" According to http://www.prodeathpenalty.com... Yes, it is an effective deterrent. It speaks for itself. "Mistakes" Yes there has been mistakes of accusing an innocent person and imprisoning them, and maybe a few executions but is that the death penalty's fault? No. It is simply the fault of the judicial system. At least 4 percent of all people who receive the death penalty are innocent, if a new study is right. http://www.forbes.com... This is not dated studies. This is since mankind, or however long they can trace back the death penalty for. And also, digging deeper in to that study I found that most of that 3/4 of that percentage gets pulled from death row due to proof of innocence before execution. Bedau, Hugo. The death Penalty in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Print. "Cost" According to Charles M. Harris, JD, Senior Judge of the Fifth District Court of Appeal in Florida, published the following in an opinion piece for The Gainesville Sun, on Apr. 18, 2012, available at gainesville.com: "Death by execution is excessively expensive. Most people who support the death penalty believe it is more cost effective than life in prison. Perhaps at one time, when executions were swift and sure, this may have been the case. It is not now. Most people knowledgeable about the subject will agree that the delay now built into the system, more trial preparation, much longer time to get to trial, much longer jury selections and trials, much more complicated and far more frequent appeals, and continuous motions, have increased the cost of capital punishment so that it is now many times the cost of keeping a prisoner in prison for life." And Eight members of the 23-member California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice study titled "Report and Recommendations on the Administration of the Death Penalty in California," signed a June 30, 2008 supplement indicating their personal objections to the death penalty. Those eight members were Diane Bellas, JD, Alameda County Public Defender; Rabbi Allen I. Freehling, Executive Director at the City of Los Angeles Human Relations Commission; Michael Hersek, JD, California State Public Defender; Bill Ong Hing, JD Professor at UC Davis School of Law; Michael P. Judge, JD, Los Angeles County Public Defender; Michael Laurence, JD, Executive Director of the Habeas Corpus Resource Center; John Moulds, JD, US Magistrate Judge of the US District Court " Eastern District of California; and Douglas Ring, Businessman Founder of The Ring Group. The supplement stated in part: "The resources that go into a death penalty case are enormous. The pursuit of execution adds millions at each phase of the process, from trial, to appeal, and habeas proceedings. For example, a death penalty trial costs counties at least $1.1 million more than a conventional murder trial. The state spends at least an additional $117 million a year on capital punishment, about half of it on prison expenses that exceed the usual costs of housing inmates and the rest on arguing and judging death penalty appeals. The costs mount because death penalty trials and appeals take far longer than others, involve more lawyers, investigators and expert witnesses, and displace other cases from courtrooms. In contrast, adopting a maximum penalty of life without possibility of parole (for which there is growing sentiment) would incur only a fraction of the death penalty costs, including prison expenses." http://deathpenalty.procon.org...