“Maybe one day the truth will come out. I hope so. If I end up being executed for this, I don't think it's right. A man named Carlos DeLuna made his comment a couple of years before his execution. In February 1983, Wanda Lopez was killed at a gas station in Texas. A witness claimed to have seen a Spanish man, possibly Deluna, running out of the station. About 40 minutes later, Carlos Deluna was arrested near the gas station and sentenced to death in 1989. Deluna protested that he did not commit the crime, however he was arrested. He went even further, he named the culprit, a violent criminal named Carlos Hernandez. However, the lead prosecutor believed that Hernandez did not exist; it was just a "figment of DeLuna's imagination". About four years after Carlos Deluna's execution, Hernandez admitted to the crime of killing Lopez. Would everything be different if Deluna were not sentenced to death, but simply imprisoned? About 40% of Americans oppose capital punishment and believe it is unnecessary and unreasonable because it offers no room for recourse or redress in the case of a one-time abortion. Throughout time and history, the topic of revenge has been intensely debated. The death penalty is considered a necessary punishment to deter future crimes and beneficial to society. In the United States, for example, there has been intense debate about whether the absence or presence of capital punishment brings positive and significant changes to society. According to recent issues in the United States, however, the death penalty is particularly controversial regarding its ability to deter future crimes, its “convenience,” and the justice system. One of the main purposes of the presence of...... middle of paper ...the convicted criminal generally ends with his execution, and the practice of the death penalty precludes any possibility of remedy. In other words, with execution, the truth could be taken away forever with the prisoner's life. The miscarriage of justice could cause further crimes, as the real criminal is still beyond the reach of the law. According to research, 100 of the 195 independent UN states have abolished capital punishment and around 40 states practice it. The existence or absence of capital punishment in the legal system does not lead to any significant negative effect. Like the 48 UN states, they have not carried out executions for more than 10 years, but maintain capital punishment as a symbol of deterrence. The recent situation in the United States shows that the existence of capital punishment in the legal system does not affect the murder rate.