Statistics say that it costs over 100,000 dollars a year to keep a prisoner in jail. This money comes out of every tax payers paycheck. Why would we pay money out of our own pockets to keep murders alive. They get a roof over their head, food to eat, television to watch, exercise rooms to exercise in as punishment for taking some ones life. What these people have in prison is in some cases better then …showed first 75 words of 373 total…

…showed last 75 words of 373 total…for a person to be in. The prisoners should not be allowed to do anything. Murderers should pay for what they did and sitting in a small cell for the rest of their life with nothing to do will get them to think about many things that they have done wrong. Two wrongs definitely do not make a right. Putting a person to death for committing a murder is not the right thing to do.