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It is extraordinarily expensive.
The excessive cost makes the death penalty a tremendous burden on underfunded state criminal justice systems. In the state of New York, the death penalty was reinstated in 1995, and has since cost $23 million for each person sentenced to death, with no executions likely for many years (Times Union, Sept. 22, 2003). The death penalty in: CA, FL, KS, NC.
The system is flawed.
Since 1973, 114 people in 25 states have been released from death row with evidence of their innocence (Death Penalty Information Center ).
Its effectiveness as a crime detterent is doubtful.
Recent studies have not only shown that non-death penalty states typically have lower homicide rates than death penalty states, but there is actually a brutalizing effect in death penalty states. [More]
World opinion is solidly against it.
More than half the countries in the world have abolished the death penalty in law or practice. America is alienating it's allies and "increasingly positioning itself as a human rights violator on this issue." [More]
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