Texas, despite having the highest amount of executions, still has the highest murder rate. Condemning a criminal to death isn t an easy solution. It costs about four times more to kill a person than it does to let him rot in a cell for the rest of his life. The unfairness used by our judicial system is yet another problem. If a white man kills a black man, he may get a jail sentence.
Money causes the same effect.
If a person has the financial means necessary to argue his case well, he will probably get a lighter sentence. If a poor man cannot pay for a decent defense, he will probably be sentenced to die. Either way you look at it, capital punishment is not practiced fairly. Innocent people have sat on death row for years and gone to the electric chair. I don t care if it was only X amount of people.