“Maybe one day the truth will come out. I hope that will be the case. If I end up being executed for this, I don't think it's fair. » A man named Carlos DeLuna made this comment a few years before his execution. In February 1983, Wanda Lopez was killed at a gas station in Texas. A witness claimed to have seen a Spaniard, 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, but he was arrested. He even went further, he named the culprit, a violent criminal named Carlos Hernández. However, the attorney general believed that Hernandez did not exist; he was just a “figment of DeLuna’s imagination.” About four years after Carlos Deluna's execution, Hernández admitted his crime of killing Lopez. Would everything be different if Deluna was not sentenced to death, but simply imprisoned? About 40 percent of Americans are against capital punishment and believe it is unnecessary and unreasonable because it leaves no room for reversal or remedy in the event of an occasional miscarriage. Throughout time and history, the theme of revenge has been the subject of intense debate. The death penalty is considered a necessary punishment to deter future crimes and beneficial to society. In the United States, for example, there have been heated debates about whether the absence or presence of capital punishment would bring about positive and significant changes for society. However, according to recent issues in the United States, the death penalty is particularly controversial regarding its potential 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 usually ends in execution, and the practice of the death penalty deprives any chance of remedy. In other words, with execution, the truth could be taken away forever with the inmate's life. The miscarriage of justice could lead to new crimes, since the real criminal always escapes justice. According to the study, 100 of the 195 independent UN member states have abolished capital punishment and around 40 states practice it. The existence or absence of capital punishment in the legal system does not have a significant negative effect. Like the 48 UN states, they have not executed people in more than 10 years, but they maintain capital punishment as a symbol of deterrence. Recent conditions in the United States show that the existence of capital punishment in the legal system does not affect the homicide rate..