Death penalty vs Jail time. Education Assignment.

Death Penalty vs. Life Imprisonment
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Introduction
The criminal justice system has for a long time grappled with the debate between death sentence and life imprisonment. There are a number of circumstances and conditions that help to determine the kind of ruling to be taken between the two, but much of it revolves around the gravity of the offense committed. There are also people who are usually sentenced to death, but the ruling is never carried out to execution. Much of the death sentences in the U.S is carried out through the lethal injection. The issue of whether to hand over the death sentence against life imprisonment has been about cost and its effectiveness.
Pros and cons of the death penalty vs. jail time.
The cost of carrying out death sentence to completion is costlier than a general life sentence. According to Amadeo (2019), it costs on average $1.12m more in the handling of inmates on death row than those on a normal life imprisonment. This figure rapidly rises to billions if all the states in the U.S. are put into consideration. The costs are that huge because there is the media coverage, the court process which entails expert witnesses and hired jury over and over again. The jury must also be qualified in matters concerning death sentences or such cases involving capital punishments.
There is also the endless appeals that might follow, as well as the medical investigation too. It is also bound to attract more and more attention from various quarters such as the human rights activists who might also increase the costs too (Wood, 2019). The question therefore becomes; why should it cost that much just to punish an individual? This is unlike the life imprisonment, which happens to be more or less straightforward, since a ruling can only be undone by an appeal, which won’t cost as much as the death sentence.
It also raises the ethical aspect of it all, why should people just focus on doing everything possible to simply ensure another person loses his life while there are various other avenues to punish without killing? It is very strange to take note of the fact that there is a team of the so called experts, working around the clock just to make sure that the case holds enough water not for life imprisonment, but for death sentence (Robinson, 2018). While it might be in line of duty, it just doesn’t make any ethical sense to do so.
Death sentence also doesn’t seem to be quite eff...