However, in reality, we often see the opposite--police interrogations so aggressive that the truly innocent believe they are guilty and lawyers so corrupt that they weave lies out of the truth. ... Even though the justice system and the world ignored the truth, at least Robert had peace of mind knowing he was innocent. ... Some innocent people on death row were not so lucky. ... " by Maurice Possley and Steve Mills, through the story of Carlos DeLuna, we see that the innocent really do die for the crimes of the guilty. ... The eyewitness was sure that the person he saw was Hispanic and ma...

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Crime control takes the approach of a suspect being "guilty until proven innocent.... It is focused on individual rights and would rather take a lengthy process to convict a guilty person rather convict an innocent person (Samaha. 2015). ... This model protects the life, liberty and property of everyone; innocent citizens and defendants. ... Not only can a defendant hurt an innocent person, they can flee and escape prosecution by not returning to court. ...

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Because, it is one thing to wrongfully convict a person and have them receive a jail sentence, it is another when the person is sentenced to death for no better reason than the color of their skin. ... With the death penalty in place, there is no chance for correction of wrongful convictions, and many innocent people might be the ones who suffer. ... One in which a person is give a fair and equitable trial. ... But, under today's system where such assurances exist such as DNA evidence, and the belief that a person is innocent until proven guilty, the use of the death penalty in our c...

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Laws are setup to hurt innocent people who don't belong in jail. ... For example if a person gets a dui whiled there parked that person should just get community service or join AA meeting, but placing a person in jail or suspending his business license is cruel and is only going to make a person become violent. ...

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Should the mere fact that criminals committing crimes with the use of guns infringe the national right of the innocent to possess guns. ... s are used as defensive weapons to save live and property of the innocent. ... Therefore, when a person is going to commit an unlawful act on someone they might hesitate because they have no way of telling if the other person is carrying a weapon or not. ...

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He demonstrates his believe by going above the law to murder two innocent people. ... When a crime has been performed, especially one to this great of degree, the person who committed the act must bear his feelings alone. ...

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One side says there's a potential of executing an innocent man. ... An example of this is where Justice Brennan states: The death penalty is uncivilized, inhuman, inconsistent with human dignity and with the sanctity of life, that it treats members of the human race as nonhumans, as objects to be toyed with and discarded, that it is uniquely degrading to human dignity and by its very nature, a denial of the executed person's humanity. ... They will give emotional speeches about the one innocent man or woman who mi...

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One person's decision can effect and possibly harm the lives of other team members. ... This is the type of person who leaves a shopping cart a foot away from someone else's vehicle on a windy day, but it's not their fault it scratches the side of the vehicle. ... This type of team member is always innocent no matter what happens. ...

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With plea bargaining a prosecutor could devote their time to cases that they had strong evidence that they believed, the suspect is innocent. ... When a person accepts a plea bargain, that person is not denying that he/she committed that crime, but this person is willing to accept a lesser charge or lesser time to serve. ... When this happens, then there is a lot of time and money wasted on the whole process of trying to convict a person. ... Once a person is sentence to prison, then they are known as an offender. ... When a person plea bargains, it is quicker and tends t...

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If every person in the legal system was as fair as he is, maybe we could call the system 'just' again. ... I wonder how many times this has happened before, where innocent people are taken as suspects even without enough evidence. ...

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Let's say there is a trial and a person is found guilty of committing a crime such as rape. This person is sentenced the death penalty. Five years after that person was found not guilty. Our first victim was innocent and suffered the fatality of humans" mistakes. ... It is the moral we apply when a person is killed because he killed someone too. ...

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The US is the only nation to used methods such as the electric chair, and the only nation to execute persons for crimes they committed as juveniles. Furthermore, the recent use of DNA evidence has found that 1/3rd of all death row inmates could not have committed their crime (are innocent). ...

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