The debate over capital punishment has stretched from the beginning of time, when Cain killed his brother Abel and was reprimanded by God Himself. Undoubtedly capital punishment has been the subject of vociferous debate in the international arena and continues to be. The application of this retribution has sometimes been imbalanced against the severity of the offence in some societies, the brutality of the method of execution varied, and the social status of the guilty played a vital role in the judicial sentencing.
According to David von Drehle, in the USA the State of Florida, with one of the nation's most populous death rows, has estimated that the true cost of each execution is approximately $3.2 million, or approximately six times the cost of a life-imprisonment sentence." In 2011 in California, a broad coalition of organidsations called Taxpayers for Justice put repeal of the death penalty on the ballot for 2012 in part because of the high cost documented by a recent study that found the state has already spent $4 billion on capital punishment resulting in 13 executions.All this cost is related to the application of democratic principles in the dispensation of justice by the legal system in the USA.
