Like me, many people believe that capital punishment is too problematic to maintain. Sentencing someone to death is very convenient, even more so than I previously believed. Capital punishment costs more than a million dollars more than it costs to keep someone in prison for life. Beyond that, there are many issues of racial discrimination within the ruling. This goes hand in hand with innocent people being found guilty and sentenced to death for crimes they did not commit. Someone who is more financially stable is more likely to avoid being sentenced to death by being able to afford the best lawyer. This also causes inequalities within capital punishment sentences. Karly Marx describes conflict theory by arguing that individuals within society with different resources use their power (being rich) to exploit those with less power. This is another aspect of capital punishment that constitutes it