Introduction & Literary Review The death penalty is the most serious sanction one can receive in today’s criminal justice system. This sanction can be brought about mostly for the conviction of murder in the first degree. For the charge of murder in the first degree, most states require it to be murder plus other aggravating circumstances. However this varies from state to state and in the federal government. The United States of America has had …showed first 75 words of 2625 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2625 total…death penalty. The research presented here does not give the true scope as to how effective alternative programs can truly be. Finally, I would suggest spending more time in the literature review. This coincides with the idea of acquiring sources that are more current. If I would have allotted the proper amount of time to this project I believe that there could have been truer picture painted of the cost benefit analysis of capital punishment.