Should it be up to our justice system to decide a person's fate? ... The gravest issue related to the death penalty is the fear of executing an innocent person. ... One example of a wrongfully accused person is Anthony Porter. ... Studies show that a black person who commits the same crime as a white person is much more likely to get the death penalty. ... The income of a person also contributes to the degree of penalty a person receives. ...

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People convicted of a crime that is punishable by death have later been found to be innocent. Between 1900 and 1992, there were 416 documented cases in which a person was convicted with a death penalty and later were proven innocent ("Five"). ... Unfortunately, since 1976, there have been twenty-three identified cases where an innocent person had their sentence carried out ("Five"). ... Sorrowfully, in addition, thirteen persons who committed a crime under the age of eighteen have been executed ("Five"). ... A reasonable sentence should never have the potential to harm innocent people....

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Another strong and compelling issues is the possibility of innocent death. ... The online magazine Action Alert, reported the following, "In recent years, numerous studies have found that one in seven persons on death row are later proven innocent. ... In the past twenty five year, ninety-five innocent people have been released from death row" (ACLU). ... The fact is, a person who intends to murder another simply does not stop to say to himself, "If I kill this person they might give me the chair or the needle or the gas chamber." ... It is also very unfortunate that innocent people are somet...

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The study concluded that 23 innocent persons had been executed since 1900. ... And, there is, in fact, no proof that those 11 executed were innocent. In addition, the "innocents executed" group was extracted from a Bedau & Radelet imagined pool of 350 persons who were, supposedly, wrongly convicted of capital or "potentially" capital crimes. ... ("Innocents on Death Row?... Another significant oversight by that study was not differentiating between the risk of executing innocent persons before and after Furman v Georgia (1972). ...

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The deterrence theory proposes that a sane person will avoid criminal behavior if the severities of the punishment are greater than the benefits of the illegal act. ... The most important and sensitive topic is the virtual assurance that genuinely innocent people will be executed and that there is no possible way of compensating them for this failure of justice. ... According to research, in the United States alone, there have been 23 incidents of innocent people executed since 1900. The main problem with this is not just that an innocent person has been executed, but also the fact that o...

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In respect to race, studies have shown time and time again that the death penalty is far more where a white person is murdered than where a black person is murdered. Especially if it was a black person who murdered a white person. ... With the death penalty in place through errors in the trial process there is possibilities of mistake, which could result in an innocent person losing the most important thing we have; life. ... (Curriculum) This means that from the time capitol punishment has been reinstated for every seven people executed there has been one person found innocent. ... If DNA te...

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The death penalty is a topic that lies between the lines of opinions and feelings based on each person's culture. ... For example, if there is a case of self-defense, should that person be acquitted or tried? There is never a certain way of knowing someone who seems "innocent" is not really guilty. ... The only twist is that rarely innocent people are killed due to the death penalty, and being falsely tried and convicted. ... A better jury system needs to be set up to avoid the death penalty being the result of n innocent person's death. ...

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No person, state, or goveronment should have the right to decide whether a person lives or dies. " It is hypocritical for any society to claim that killing is the most intolerable crime, and then carry out state killings." - www. ... The death penalty does not deter a person from committing a murder while in prison. ... Innocent people have been executed. Prison sentences can be lifted but what happens what you kill an innocent person? ... "Between 1900 and 1992, there have been 46 documented cases of innocent persons who have been convicted of murder or capital rape-A ...

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The scapegoat was not a particular person, anyone would do, it was more the symbolism that laying the blame on someone else rather than accepting it held that makes this so meaningful. ... Society is so eager to do something about what's going on, that by just accusing an innocent person of the same faith as the guilty, they feel they've done their part. ... To take out ones anger on the wrong person is just the kind of thing that will rip a country apart when they need to stay as one the most. ... The fact that someone would feel the need to take out anger on someone so much that...

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A tragic example of this would be the Virginia Tech massacre, where the shooter, Seung-Hui Cho managed to pass the background checks and buy two guns and ammunition to kill innocent people. ... As a result, the ammunition enabled him to kill six innocent people including a nine-year-old girl. ... A stricter gun law would provide much needed supplementation to the faulty background checks and loose laws that provide criminals the means to kill and wound innocent people. ... A strict gun law would ensure the safety of innocent people by taking away the weapons used to kill them. ... A study do...

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In order to protect lawful and innocent people, some criminals need to be executed. ... These criminals should not have the opportunity to kill any more victims in the future; they should be put to death in order to save innocent civilians. ... The opposition would say that many innocent people will be put to death. ... (AO) DNA evidence is the perfect tool to prove a murder has been committed by a certain person. ...

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Hate is something a person is taught either through subtle or not so subtle ways. ... The bad thing about that is that a person can get attacked for "merely- looking Jewish. ... If a person looks Muslim then they must be a terrorist, so we must kill them before they kill us. ... It is necessary to bring the perpetrators in the September 11th tragedy to justice, but is it really going to justify the loss of innocent lives? Not only may innocent people over there die, but many more innocent Americans will also die if we can't find a better way to stop terrorism than with war. ...

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In many cases, guns are not used to protection, but they for revenge and may take the lives of an innocent human beings. ... I think when a person has a gun they think they have more power, leading them to make wrong decisions. ... But what if a gun is stolen and used to kill innocent people? ...

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A deeper objection to Euthanasia is the truth that we lack the moral right to take innocent human life-even our own. ... Yet conscience tells them that innocent life must not be destroyed. ... Marking the devaluation of human life would then lead to steps of ending the lives of mentally ill persons or non-terminally ill patients who are just in a state of depression. ...

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Preventing the massacre of innocent people won't rest upon stricter gun control laws or outlawing guns and other types of arsenal. ... A person who wants to commit murder will, no doubt, find a means to acquire the weapon(s) they need to do so. ... I strongly disagree with the people's opinion to outlaw guns because guns are not the only item that a person can kill another person with. ... News broadcasts allowed the country to see people burning businesses and homes and taking innocent people from their vehicles, beating them, sometimes killing them. ... Overall, firearms at home ar...

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This doesn't seem to disturbing, what really shocked me was what story ran after that, it was a report on a murder that had happened recently, the anchor talked about what a horrible tragedy it was to have this innocent life taken from us, that in these modern times it amazed him a person could do that. ... Theirs things going on in the world that are a lot worse than a murder in Edmonton, and if you think that person is sick for killing one other human being, George Bush has probably killed hundreds, maybe even thousands, and I"m not talking about the Iraqi soldiers, I"m talking about th...

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In the use of the death penalty the concern of executing the innocent remains abroad. ... As a person against capital punishment, I feel more thought should be placed on a matter that involves taking someone's life. ... Execution of innocent persons is bound to occur. ...

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Our streets have become a battleground where teenage gangsters shoot it out for territorial turf to sell their drugs and innocent children are caught daily in the crossfire of drive by shootings. ... However, the effort by some misguided individuals to eliminate the legal ownership of guns does not address the real problems at hand and simply disarms the innocent law-abiding citizens who are most in need of a form of self-defense. ... Even though gun control laws might help some people to feel better and safe, it will not stop the person who intends to hurt someone. ... A person should n...

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The reason why the Death Penalty costs so much is because it takes so much time to find out if the person is actually guilty or innocent; that does not take two or three days to find out. ... Many researches said that life in prison it cost less then excitation of a person. ...

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These persons are arrested, thereby reinforcing the belief that drug 3 trafficking is mostly limited to the black culture. ... The unfortunate result is the innocent people are often persecuted based on their skin color alone. ... Talk to almost any black person in the country and you will hear personal accounts of unjustified traffic stops by the police. ... For instance, 77 percent of motorists searched on the New Jersey turnpike were black or Hispanic, although 60 percent of all persons stopped were white. ... The evidence gets even more disturbing, an innocent black driver in the stat...

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I believe the September 11 attacks on innocent civilians were acts of terrorism not acts of war. According to Webster's New World dictionary terrorism is the unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons. ... The political leaders were put in charge to safeguard the citizens and innocents of this country and instead concentrated on the menials of society such as the impeachment of the prior president for an a...

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Some reasons that make gun control unnecessary are innocent gun owners, illegal guns, and gun control laws. ... Innocent gun owners, illegal guns, and gun control laws are topics that support that gun control aren't the way to solve crime. ... One must remember that a gun does not commit the crime; it is the person who uses it. ...

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When one person infringes on another's rights, he must be punished. ... If we fail to execute murderers, and in so doing would in fact have deterred other murders, we have allowed the killing of a bunch of innocent victims. ... America works itself into a frenzy about a convicted murderer's right to life, but seem to have forgotten the rights of the innocent victim who was killed, making their deaths mere numbers on a newspaper page....

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A lot of innocent people are getting assaulted, beaten up and even killed just because they are Muslims, and in some cases are not even Arabs. ... "When The Innocent Are Made Victim." ... That the terrorists have won if the first thing we do, when threaten by war, is blaming innocent people. ... In his interview Keith McCormick, one of the Ahmed's customers said that Ahmed was the nicest person to meat. ...

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The thought of her brought her face back to him, her wide innocent face, the face of a child still, with the eyes that bled into you and the soft lisping breath of a voice that was like the first voice you'd ever heard... America is actually a strong, determined person. ... For she wondered what he would think of her, whether or not he would shame her and make her feel like less of a person. By hiding her tragedies, America remains a strong person and cannot be brought down by the bad occurring to her. ... America is such a young girl, who at first glance may seem innocent and nave to...

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