The death penalty; What Tennessee should do about it. The Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states that prisoners sentenced to death should not be executed after the death penalty and should be treated no less than prisoners of the 18th century. So why is capital punishment still legal in the state of Tennessee? It's true that Tennessee ignores much of the cost data, but the records it showed showed how expensive it is to sue someone. Survey data indicates that capital trials cost an average of $46,791; life without trial on parole costs an average of $31,494; and life with the possibility of trial on parole costs an average of $31,622. The life without parole average does not include defense attorney fees because the defense attorney did not respond to requests for data. Death penalty trials cost on average 48% more than the average cost of trials in which prosecutors seek life imprisonment. (Casale 2012) Tennessee should create an innocent project like the California School of Law did; Criminals would stay off the streets for the rest of their lives, and the money saved could be spent to improve the criminal justice system, such as by increasing public safety or providing resources to help prevent wrongful convictions. You'll find some examples of cases and research that's been done, why you can't be something for nothing, what exactly capital punishment is, what's the closest thing to the innocent draft in Tennessee, and where it stands repeal today. Cases and ResearchIn recent decades, American correctional policy has focused on a "tougher" approach to all crimes and punishments that occur. To think they are in the middle of a sheet of paper......and the Supreme Court abandons it. The Court emphasized that it is not so much the number of these States that is significant but the coherence of the direction of change. When it comes to legislative repeal of the death penalty, the direction of change is clear: five states have abolished the death penalty since 2004, four of them through legislation and the other in New York through a process hybrid judicial legislation. Meanwhile, no state has permanently reinstated the death penalty since Kansas in 1994. Although that state has not executed anyone since 1965. In the years since the legislation repealing it took effect the death penalty, no state has passed legislation reinstating the death penalty. carry out executions. And in none of the states that have abolished capital punishment through legislation has a reinstatement bill actually come to a full vote. (Parker 2013)