1. Death Penalty
The death penalty has also been imposed for such serious crimes as armed robbery, kidnapping, rape [or] treason. ( Zimring, 1994, P.1 )But who is really being unjust in this situation? ... Gay was wrongly accused of shooting down a San Fernando Valley Police officer in the early 1980's. Judge Jeffery Wyatt's ruling, in Gay's second penalty trial, was that he was guilty and his reasoning was that his "Innocence evidence was irrelevant." (A) What was the reason for keeping the evidence to prove Gay's innocence a secret? ... Is it described in (the) Holy Bible that a death pen...
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