The death penalty is a government sanctioned execution. There are 31 states in the USA that have the death penalty. On January 1st Of 2016, There was a count of how many people were on the death row, and in fact California came out on top with 743 people. Incredibly Texas came in third place for how many people are on death row. In executions since 1976 the method used was lethal injection for 1,258 people. So many people are being put to death over crimes that are major enough for life in prison.
The death penalty also has no impact on the crime rates, although, I can prove that the crime rates have gone up, since the death penatly was placed. Since 1976 when the death penalties were at 0, the death penalties have peaked with 98 people in 1999. In the play Romeo And Juliet, the Prince placed a death Penatly to anyone found fighting within the city walls. Even after he placed the death both the families did not stop the fighting. If Tibult had listened to the Prince and not started calling out Mercucio neither would have died. I blame Tibult's hot head, because of him both him and Mercucio ended up dead. The Prince later placed the death penalty on Romeo for killing Tibult, although that didn't stop the fighting, I know because Juliet's mom was going to send a hit man to kill Romeo. The death penatly had no impact on either of the families.
In Conclusion, I believe that the death penalty does not have any efficiency with crime. Through my research I also found that the death penatly is racially based, a California study found that those who killed whites were over 3 times more likely to be sentenced to death then those who's victims were black. I also found that in Louisiana the chances of recieving the death penalty were 97% higher if the victim was white rather than if the victim was black.
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