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=Pros & Cons =

A study done by the country top Academic Criminologists indicates that about forty-eight percent of the public do prefer life without parole over the death penalty but there are many who still do prefer the death penalty over the life without parole. Throughout the decades, the US nation has favored the death penalty, however the nation strongly feels that the death penalty should be fairly applied do to the evolution of technology less painful methods should always be applied. "Distaste for inflicting pain had been assuaged by technology, and technology had transformed the meaning of an execution" (Banner, 2002, p. 207).  **Pros** Many Americans do favor the death penalty and supported because they do believe that it helps discourage people from committing murders as a result there will be more innocent lives saved. [|Urban Institute Research of Record]article title: __Crime and Justice__, “tougher criminal penalty have driven up the jail and prison population for more than 25 years” (Urban Institute, 2009). T he death penalty encourages the usage of new technology to track down criminals; new technology includes live scan fingerprint and the expanding usage of DNA, DNA technology has advance tremendously throughout the decades, to check in for forensic sciences and to solve criminal cases.

= Cons = Theatrically speaking we all wonder, what if an innocent person was sentenced to the death penalty. Even if all the evidence found do depicts this person of doing the crimes, there could be a slight chance that the evidence found is not one hundred percent accurate. According to Black, the newer philosophy of law interprets unclear answers do to the assistance of new technological material (Black, 1981). " Fear that through error, avoidable or unavoidable, innocent men and women may be executed for crimes they did not commit is one of the most forceful and principal arguments of those striving to outlaw capital punishment" (Block, 1983,p.55).
 * Motivates the creation for new technology development.
 * Giving the convict a chance of freedom could mean giving the convict a second chance to kill.
 * A convict could escape from prison.
 * Overpopulated prisons. People who were imprisoned was about half a million during the 80s, nowadays there are about 2.3 millions inmates (Urban Institute, 2009).




 * The Death Penalty actually costs more than keeping a convict in prison for a life sentence.
 * The act of killing someone will not bring back the dead victim(s).
 * Some believe that life in prison is a worsen punishment and more effective than a death sentence.
 * The fear that a mental ill patient or an innocent person may be placed to death sentence.
 * The media do create compassion for the monstrous criminals by giving them a spotlight and fame.