Capitol Punishment

When it comes to capitol punishment I am strongly against it. I am against it because it is the killing of another human. The death penalty does not solve anything. When a murderer kills someone the police want to take them to jail, and put them on death row. Once you get put on death row they do everything in their power to put you to death as fast as they can. Capitol punishment to me is just the killing of people. You put a murderer on death row just so that the warden can kill them, instead of just letting them sit in jail and think about the murder that they committed.

In the year 1999, thirty states and the Federal prison system held three thousand five hundred and twenty seven prisoners under sentence of death. In 1999 three hundred and twenty five Hispanic inmates under sentence of death accounted for ten percent of inmates with a known ethnicity. Our capitol punishment system is very bias, a majority of death row inmates are either Hispanic or African American. The court system tends to put a harsher sentence on a minority, than on a white American citizen.

When people think of capitol punishment they think the only way to make a murderer suffer is by killing them. That is not hurting them at all; the only person that might be hurting is the family. I believe the best way to make a murderer suffer is by making them sit in prison for life. Yes they may live an easy life, but they will have to think about the person that they killed every single day that they are alive.

More than two thousand people died while in police custody between the years 2003- 2005. As many as fifty four percent of inmates were killed by police. Twelve percent of jail inmates died because of drug or alcohol overdose, and eleven percent committed suicide while in jail serving their time. The longer these inmates sit and wait for their deaths they will begin to "not care" about anything, they start to abuse drugs and alcohol or start to fight with either guards or inmates.

Among the one thousand and ninety five inmates killed by police and other security forces, eighty percent were armed, sixty two percent threatened police officers, thirty six percent made an attempt to escape, and eighteen percent were under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Among the two hundred and thirty four suspects who committed suicide, more than half were detained for violent crimes. Two-thirds killed themselves with firearms in the course of their arrest.