Whether the issue be abortion or the death penalty. Yet, when a murder is committed, someone has decided a life should end. This person should be sentenced to life imprisonment, not execution. Killing this person will not bring back the victim, it will only serve as revenge. Death penalty advocates have used the economic standpoint to make their case.
More inmates means more prisons which means more money.
It is frightening to think that our government has the power to order an individual's death. Anyone who has read Orwell's 1984 knows what can happen if a government becomes too powerful over its constituents. A look at crime statistics will immediately disspell the myth that the death penalty deters crime. Murder rates are climbing almost every year and executions are rising. The death penalty is not stopping criminals.