Abolish the Federal Death Penalty

We ask the United States government to abolish the Federal Death Penalty. While we recognize the rights of individual states to determine within their borders the limits of punishment, the United States remains one of an increasingly small number of countries who endorse this archaic practice as a nation. The cost of housing DP inmates is a tremendous burden to taxpayers. Recently botched lethal injections have caused torturous, cruel & inhumane deaths for a # of inmates thus violating their 8th Amendment Constitutional Rights. Public support for the sentence is currently at an all time low. Innocent people have been put to death & such situations highlight the fallibility of the practice. This would be an admirable first step to correctional reform. Please set this much needed example.