Part 4: Charts

One of the ways in which these charts influence my previous response about the issue of equality is that there actually is some issue with this topic that I did not notice before. Even though more white people end up being executed, there are many more black people who are sentenced to death for killing white people than there are white people who kill black people. Fifteen white people were sentenced to death for killing black people, while 246 black people were sentenced to death for killing white people. Either this is because more there is more interracial killings between black people to white people, than white people to black people. Or it is because black people are punished more severely for killing white people. States are paying hundreds of millions of dollars of tax payers dollars for the death penalty. It is close to two million dollars per execution, which is more money than simply sentencing someone to life in prison. The public's opinion on whether they support the death penalty or not is too narrow to change the law now, even though 48% disagree with the law and 47% prefer the death penalty. I really great fact that the Death Penalty Information Center offered is that 88% of Criminologists said that execution does not prevent future homicide rates. Deterrents of future crimes has always played a big role in death penalty cases, and her it is saying how the death penalty does not play a big factor in future crimes. This site is very convincing because it offers a variety of different information in an organized way and an easy to read many. Even though before I disagreed with the death penalty, this only made my feelings against it stronger