There are also those who were released after the true perpetrator of the crime came forward and made a confession or the discovery of what is sometimes described as improper police procedures where "Under considerable public pressure to solve a crime" a proper police investigation was not done. ... Considering these thoughts on the human behavior goes support the fact that the death penalty does nothing to protect anyone or even prevents crime. 4 ...

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(Love) Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun (once a supporter of executions) commented on the unfair application of capital punishment in the United States in 1994 saying, "I feel morally and intellectually obliged simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed The death penalty remains fraught with arbitrariness, discrimination, caprice, and mistake From this date forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death." ... They have no protection from the racial discrimination that occurs at every step of the process." ...

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Capital punishment is a social institution whereby a goveronment punishes a certain crime by putting the offender to death. Killing is unethical. No person, state, or goveronment should have the right to decide whether a person lives or dies. " It is hypocritical for any society to cla...

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