Persons below eighteen years of a age, pregnant women , new mothers or persons who have become insane shall not be sentenced to death. 3. ... In 1994 there were 2,850 persons awaiting execution. ... With all this opportunity for the case to be turned over or the sentence to be changed it is almost impossible for an innocent person to be executed. Only two people have been proved innocent after their execution in the United States. ... The criteria for evaluating whether or not a person is ...

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Wade said, women have the right to murder an innocent child only up to twenty-four weeks. ... The child is a person as soon as it is conceived. ... We justify killing the innocent children by saying the earth is overpopulated, but actually it is not. ... Why does this nation believe the killing of innocent, defenseless human babies is all right? ...

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Opponents denounce it as murder, say that it does not cause deterrence but rather promotes violence and claim that it introduces the chance of an innocent person being executed. ... Life without parole is the only way to go it costs less than a third of what it costs to execute a person on death row. ... There have been cases where innocent people have been executed. ... James Richardson was an extremely lucky man, but what about those who died knowing the whole time that they were innocent. ... Making a person sit on death row for multiple years is cruel. ...

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Opponents denounce it as murder, say that it does not cause deterrence but rather promotes violence and claim that it introduces the chance of an innocent person being executed. ... Life without parole is the only way to go it costs less than a third of what it costs to execute a person on death row. ... There have been cases where innocent people have been executed. ... Making a person sit on death row for multiple years is cruel. ... Beyond its horror and incivility it has neither protected the innocent nor deterred the wicked. ...

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When the trial is over and the innocent has been separated by the guilty, the moment of punishment begins. ... The old adage tells us that a person may steal from a thief, that a person can wrong those that has wrong him or her, but do we, as a society, have the right to decide on whether a person lives or dies? ... In the Middle Ages, methods of execution included chopping off arms and legs, impaling on a stake, stripping off the condemned person's skin, boiling in oil, drawing and quartering, burning at the stake and crucifixion. ... The condemned person was to be strapped into a c...

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The fourth amendment states "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.". ... Another piece of the due process puzzle comes into focus when looking at the Fifth Amendment or the right of persons. ... The first part of the amendment which states "No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise in...

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A first reading of this phrase one might be think that this right, that which gives a person accused of a crime to have lawyers for his defense, is common knowledge being that it is among the most basic rights given to the citizenry of the public. ... From the outset, Gideon insisted that he was innocent. ... Under the laws of the State of Florida, the only time the Court can appoint Counsel to represent a defendant is when that person is charged with a capital offense. ... The unanimous decision was delivered by Justice Black, who wrote: ...In our adversary system of crim...

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The fourth amendment states that: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. ... After the September 11 terrorist attack congress felt that Title III came "replete with instructions describing the permissible scope of the surveillance as well as the conversations which may be seized and the efforts to be t...

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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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