After listening to the NPR podcast Florida Mulls Lethal Injection Problems it is my conclusion that it was pure negligence that caused Angel Diaz to suffer longer than necessary. That doesn’t negate the fact that the death penalty shouldn’t exist. My stand on capital punishment or the death penaltyis pro. I do not find that the methods used now are cruel and unusual. According to deathpenaltyinfo.org (www.deathpenaltyinfo.org visited 1/10/2010) since 1976 1019 inmates on death row were executed by lethal injection. There have only been a handful of “botched” lethal injections since the death penalty was reinstated. Most states do not use electrocution anymore, and the only state that it is still legal for death by firing squad is Utah.
The average cost of running a state run prison system costs the average tax payer $100 per day (http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/ascii/spe01.txt visited 1/10/2010), and the average cost of housing an inmate costs on average $62.05 per day. The costs on the actual lethal injection vary by state, but it has been proven in most cases that it costs more to house inmates on death row than it is to serve their death sentence. Most states who do allow the death penalty to be carried out now offer life without parole. The average life expectancy for a male is approx 75 years. If said male would commit a crime and is imprisoned at the age of 18 (tried as an adult and convicted) it would cost a total of $3536.85(www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2010/tables/10s0103.pdf visited 1/10/2010). That is only for one inmate. There is currently an average of 1,518,559 inmates in state or federal prison (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States visited 1/10/2010).
I find that it is fair to imprison someone and sentence them to death for committing crimes like murder, rape, molestation, kidnapping and certain hate crimes. If a person is proven guilty of their crimes they should be held accountable for their actions. I do...