At present, prison systems across the United States have ceased to be entities under government control and have passed into the hands of private owners in search of profits. For what? Simply put, overpopulation. Prisons have reached capacity and exhausted resources by focusing on individuals, many of whom should not have had the luxury of life in the first place. However, in hindsight, the price is factually and numerically lower for keeping a death row inmate alive than carrying out the expected execution: “A death sentence costs at least twice as much, from start to finish, as a life sentence without the possibility of parole. , according to a Maryland study. The Bar Association study here estimates the cost of prosecution, defense and appeals at nearly $800,000 more for a death sentence. Most of this cost is borne by the counties. In King County, taxpayers have spent about $10 million on two pending death penalty cases — and neither has even gone to trial. Smaller counties have been threatened with bankruptcy because of the cost of death penalty cases. The cost of life imprisonment pales in comparison and guarantees the same level of public safety. Parliament's fiscal office estimated that abolishing the death penalty only required the addition of two prison beds” (Riley et al. 3). Although it may be true that keeping an inmate alive