(Religious Organizing Against the Death Penalty Website) The main argument that advocates for the death penalty have is that the death penalty deters crime, that the threat of execution is enough to make criminals think twice about committing a capital crime. ... (Death Penalty Information Center Website) People justify the death penalty in saying that in the Bible God says that murder should be punished with death. ... ("The Death Penalty: Cruelty or Necessity, Craig Alan Myers) For Christians out there, God does say, after calling for crimes to be punished by death, that it sh...

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The death penalty is costly do to the appeals process. ... DNA testing has death row inmates from blame. ... DNA testing became available only in the early 1990's, due to advancements in science. If this testing had not been discovered until ten years later, many of these inmates would have been executed. And if DNA testing had been applied to earlier cases where inmates were executed in the 1970s and 80s, the odds are high that it would have proven that some of them were innocent as well. ...

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Capital Punishment - Death Penalty The death penalty is the ultimate punishment for people who commit crimes against mankind. ... The death penalty should be administered for particularly heinous crimes. I do not think that the death penalty is a cruel and unusual punishment when the crime committed is unimaginable. ... Our justice system seems to forget what the victims had to go through before their death. ... In today's society there are DNA tests, finger print tests, and so many other kinds of forensic tests that can be done. ...

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Capital Punishment - Death Penalty The death penalty is the ultimate punishment for people who commit crimes against mankind. ... The death penalty should be administered for particularly heinous crimes. I do not think that the death penalty is a cruel and unusual punishment when the crime committed is unimaginable. ... Our justice system seems to forget what the victims had to go through before their death. ... In today's society there are DNA tests, finger print tests, and so many other kinds of forensic tests that can be done. ...

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Capital Punishment - Death Penalty The death penalty is the ultimate punishment for people who commit crimes against mankind. ... The death penalty should be administered for particularly heinous crimes. I do not think that the death penalty is a cruel and unusual punishment when the crime committed is unimaginable. ... Our justice system seems to forget what the victims had to go through before their death. ... In today's society there are DNA tests, finger print tests, and so many other kinds of forensic tests that can be done. ...

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The death penalty is a just(Opposing Viewpoints, 96) penalty for murderers. ... The death penalty deters murderers(Opposing Viewpoints, 112). ... They may feel that the death penalty is cruel and unusual punishment. ... Also, wrongful executions are highly unlikely due to new advances in technology such as DNA testing and forensics(Opposing Viewpoints, 17). ... The death penalty is the only way to punish murderers. ...

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Death Penalty A man kills his wife after he suspects she cheated on him. ... If there was no death penalty, most convicted murderers would stay on death row. ... People may ask if the death penalty is fair and in my point of view, it is. ... Especially with today's technology with things such as DNA and blood tests, if there is a lot of evidence that shows the accused committed the crime, most likely, he did. In conclusion, I believe that the death penalty should be enforced. ...

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I for one do believe in the death penalty. ... Kendall was put to death for being a spy for Spain. ... The concept is very simple, the death penalty prevents a murder by putting the fear of death into would be killers. ... In 1992, his lawyer asked for a more sophisticated testing on the evidence. The DNA test showed that there was no semen of Bloodworth's on the little girl's clothes and on stick found near her. ...

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The death penalty has been used through out history. ... "On June 1, 2000, Governor Bush issued a 30-day stay of execution to convicted murderer Ricky McGinn, for DNA testing. ... The DNA tests came back in positive in August, and a new September execution date was set for McGinn" (txexecutions 2001). ... One of the main weapons challenging the death penalty is the use of, DNA testing or evidence. DNA testing has been around for quite a few years now, but only recently has the testing methods improved and used to prove someone's innocence or guilt. ...

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Not only the ridiculous cost of executing these convicts but the prisoners on death row stay on death row for 10 to 30 years before they actually get put to death. ... However, in 2014 seven people were exonerated due to new evidence or DNA testing. DNA testing only became available in the early 1990s. After DNA testing became available it caused a spike in exonerations, from 1993 to 2012 there was an average of 23 exonerations each year. ... The death penalty is not a proven deterrent to future murder. ...

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Death. ... Now, its not like everybody in jail gets put on death row. If a person steals something, it does not mean they should go on death row. ... Today, DNA testing can tell us whether or not we have the right criminal. ... Each state has the right whether or not to have death penalty. ...

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The death penalty has not remained constant throughout American History . ... (Ivers434) This case temporarily suspended the death penalty, showing that the laws that were established for the death penalty needed to be fixed, because they were in violation of the eighth and fourteenth amendments, therefore suspending the death penalty... The key part of the death penalty is that it involves death -- something which is rather permanent for humans, due to the concept of mortality. ... There are many questions about the death penalty. ... Georgia, which had suspended the death penalty. ...

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The controversy that I have chosen to write about is the death penalty. ... I agree 100% with the use of the death penalty. The death penalty system does have its flaws, but over all, I think it is pretty effective. With the new technology available to detectives today such as DNA testing, one will occasionally hear about a prisoner who was put to death for a crime that authorities later figured out he did not commit. ... This is why I believe in and support the death penalty. ...

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The cost for a death penalty is $60,000 plus $1.5 million for trials and appeals. ... If the government continues to improve DNA testing and makes the time allowed for appeals shorter, if any, than it should save lives, time, and money. ... This is because death is so much more feared than the mere restrictions on one's liberty. ... Death clearly incapacitates the criminal and prevents them from committing any other offenses. ... Using capital punishment prevents many unnecessary deaths and crimes. ...

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Currently there are approximately 3,500 inmates on death row in thirty-eight states that have adopted the death penalty. ... "In an execution in this country the test ought not to be reasonable doubt; the test ought to be is there any doubt." ... The continually growing number of prisoners on death row reflects a rise in the number of death sentences being imposed. ... In 1987, he was granted a retrial but was again sentenced to death. ... Later a DNA test would exonerate Williams and the other men. ...

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Another strong and compelling issues is the possibility of innocent death. ... DNA testing on biological samples such as skin, 3 saliva, semen, blood or hair has proven their innocence with great accuracy. ... Radelet, Bedau, and Putman Punishment And The Death Penalty (96). ... In the book Death And Discrimination by Gross and Mauro, research done by Harold Garfinkel concluded that, "defendants who kill whites were more likely to be sentenced to death than those who kil...

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Also the death penalty is a long and costing process . A prisoner can spend a long time is prison while on death row. ... The test for deterrence is not that executions produce lower murder rates, but that executions produce fewer murders than if the death penalty did not exist. ... (Sharp) There is direct proof that the death penalty does save lives. ... which has currently put them on death row. ...

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That alone makes anyone think twice about using the death penalty. ... Now the death penalty has grown into a national phenomenon. ... It's like telling a person on death row that we are sentencing you to death to prevent people from doing the same thing. ... Imagine a psychological test for high school students where it is shown that those who fail are as likely to commit a future crime as are those arrested for having committed that crime in the past. ... If it is right to kill to prevent a future crime, then we are just as justified to kill 4...

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MY VIEWS ON THE DEATH PENALTY I've long said that I don't mind abolishing the death penalty. ... "If death penalty cases, subject to far more rigorous safeguards than ordinary criminal cases, still manage to convict the innocent, how many innocent people are convicted of crimes that don't carry the death penalty? ... It's only the very few questionable cases where DNA tests are used because of the expense. ... In short, we should maintain order by enforcing a death penalty for severe prison violence. ... Fear of death my certainly phase them, and if it dosen't, death ...

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Hittite code was put into place as the death penalty. 7th century Draconian code of Athens made the death penalty the only option for when you committed a crime. ... Kind of some crazy laws punishable by the death penalty, right? ... People were often crucified, drowned, and beat to death. ... He also abolished crucifixion and the death penalty itself during his reign. ... The same thing happened to hangings as the form of death. ...

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Americans seek that justice is done and to seek this justice, many turn to the death penalty. ... Henry VIII the ruler of England from 1509 to 1547 prescribed the death penalty for anyone who imagined the death of the King. ... The death penalty has seen its greatest use during wars and revolutions. ... By the 1830s and 1840s, the anti-death-penalty movement began to have a significant impact. ... New York later reinstated the death penalty law with death by lethal injection. ...

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