Death Penalty Debate: Research Paper Topics Death Penalty Pro/Con Should capital punishment be abolished in the United States? Executive Director, Death Penalty Information Center. Written for CQ It is past time to end the free ride that the death penalty has been Per person, the death penalty is probably one of the most expensive death penalty through programs like community policing and new The death penalty is not needed and is not regularly carried out in The costs of the death penalty are not only measured in dollars spent. penalty was reinstated. The death penalty divides the community by executed. Replacing the death penalty with a maximum sentence of life The American people remain solidly in support of capital punishment. has always told us — the death penalty has a deterrent effect and saves justice, the opponents of the death penalty are now resorting to a cost argument. The death penalty takes so long and costs so much for the few inherent part of the death penalty. They are not. Much of the delay can Jost, K. (2010, November 19). Death penalty debates. CQ Researcher, 20,