It is very difficult to execute an innocent person due to the justice process. ... Cassell of the Wall Street Journal explained how the 68 percent figure (error rate) is deceptive: After reviewing 23 years of capital sentences, the study's authors (like other researchers) were unable to find a single case in which an innocent person was executed. ... (Eddlem 4) Even though there is a chance that an innocent person might be executed, the problem does not lie within the punishment. ... Murder is defined as the unlawful killing of a person with malice and aforethought. ... The risk th...

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The Fourteenth Amendment prevents any state to "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law" (U.S. ... Last, but most importantly many people who believe in the death sentence believe it is a better way for justice to be served, but what happens if an innocent person falls victim of being under the needle. ... Since 1989 the CIP has shown, "through the wide use of DNA evidence over 2,000 innocent persons convicted of rape and murder were exonerated, clearing their names in the process" (Chinn, Death Penalty Infographic). ... Willingham was n...

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I know that this is a very touchy subject and as humans we believe that there should be revenge on someone who has taken the life of another person. ... Last but not least we have some prisoners that are in jail and they are innocent on behalf of their case. Some people are innocent by self-defense, long term mental problems, and life threatening situations. ... According to the death Penalty information center since 1973, 121 people convicted of murder have been released from death row because they were declared innocent or the charges against them were dropped. If we sit back and think about...

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A person who deliberately murders another person should not be able to get back out on the streets where he or she can murder again. ... Common sense tells a person what is right and what is wrong. ... The main reason there should not be capital punishment is the actuality of the person being innocent. ... It is not feasible to send an innocent person to jail with all the current technology available. ... Protection of the innocent requires that criminals be isolated or executed. ...

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A person who deliberately murders another person should not be able to get back out on the streets where he or she can murder again. ... Common sense tells a person what is right and what is wrong. ... The main reason there should not be capital punishment is the actuality of the person being innocent. ... It is not feasible to send an innocent person to jail with all the current technology available. ... Protection of the innocent requires that criminals be isolated or executed. ...

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A person who deliberately murders another person should not be able to get back out on the streets where he or she can murder again. ... Common sense tells a person what is right and what is wrong. ... The main reason there should not be capital punishment is the actuality of the person being innocent. ... It is not feasible to send an innocent person to jail with all the current technology available. ... Protection of the innocent requires that criminals be isolated or executed. ...

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In our civilized society, the death of another person cannot be considered good and right. ... Killing the Innocent a. The last and most important reason that I feel we should look to alternative punishments is that with the death penalty, there is always the possibility of the execution of an innocent person. ... If this does happen, not one more person, innocent or guilty, will be stripped of his or her right to live. ... Why do we permit the chance that an innocent person will be killed? ...

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Capital punishment - also known as the death penalty - is a legal process through which a person is executed by the government in response to a committed crime. ... There are also cases where a person's innocence has been established first after their execution. The illicit execution of an innocent person is an injustice that can never be rectified, which makes it morally reprehensible. As long as human justice remains fallible, the risk of executing the innocent can never be eliminated. ... And it has cost many innocent people their lives....

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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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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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Which could cause an innocent person to lose his or her life and you can not give someone back their life. ... It shouldn't matter who the person is. ... Innocent lives will be saved. ... What if that one person was innocent? There has been at times where an innocent person was put to death by capital punishment. ...

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Capital punishment is the legal process whereby a person is sentenced to death by the state as a punishment for a crime they have committed. ... Is the right person receiving the punishment? ... How does a person go from being on death row to being released? ... There are plenty of cases where an innocent person was sentenced to life in prison and pulled many years before being exonerated, but we are not trying to abolish life in prison. ... If the death of innocents because of judicial error is unjust, so is the death of innocents by murder....

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The killing of innocents is the most appalling, vile, and injustice act present. In the case of capital punishment, the killing of an innocent person cannot be reversed. "When innocent people are imprisoned for crimes they did not commit, at least the state can offer some form of restitution. ... A person dies and his life ends. ... It kills innocent people and provides a contradictory system between the people and the state. ...

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The innocent person, who died at the hands of a murderer, even in death, deserves justice. I believe that the United States government should enforce the death penalty because if someone can take another person's life away, then they themselves do not deserve to live. ... This would not only bring justice to the person that died but the death penalty also seeks justice for the family members who now have to go on living with the pain of having lost a loved one. ... Although there have been times where innocent people have been sentenced with crimes they did not commit, it has been rare...

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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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In an argument against the death penalty to which any levelheaded and decent person(s) would see it is indisputable that innocent people have been murdered by the government in the past and in all likelihood more will follow. The wrongful execution of an innocent person is such an awful injustice that any civilized society could never justify it, yet this is the message that the United States is willing to pronounce. ... Over this eighty year period this figure averages out to the death of an innocent person about every 3.4 years. ... Those who support capital punishment claim that there h...

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In its simplest form, capital punishment is defined as one person taking the life of another. ... " No person, government-affiliated or not, has the right to decide if another human is worthy or unworthy of life. ... Humans are not cold metal coins that lose value; no act, no matter how heinous, can make a person less of a human being. ... Losing a loved one, no matter how that person is lost, is unbearable, irrevocable, and shattering. ... It is wrong for everyone involved: the prosecuted innocent, criminals, victims' families, and our nation. ...

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Capital Punishment is in essence taking a human life in exchange for some wrong doing committed by a person that has been deemed to be so offensive to society it warrants the ending of the accuser's life. ... The issue of capital punishment incites passionate arguments from both sides, no matter what a persons view is on the issue, strong emotions always seem to be attached to their particular opinion. ... "I now favor a moratorium, because I have grave concerns about our state's shameful record of convicting innocent people and putting them on death row," Governor Ryan said. ... M...

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As well being an outdated barbaric act, capital punishment violates religious beliefs and there is always the possibility that an innocent person will be put to death. ... Human beings should never be able to take the life of another person. ... There is always the possibility that a person can be wrongly accused. If the prisoner was to be locked up for life and was then found innocent, they could be released. However, new evidence about crimes is often found years later, and if the person has already been put to death there is no way of bringing that person back to life. ...

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Another way it is ineffective is when innocent people are put to death. ... There have been several cases where "guilty" people have later been found innocent and set free. ... So we need to keep these people alive to make sure we aren't killing an innocent person. ... You cannot bring the murdered person back by taking the prisoner's life. ... As far as costs, it is much cheaper to keep a person alive in prison for life. ...

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The death penalty is a very harsh thing to do to a person. ... Many innocent people have been executed. ... A person killed someone, so you kill them. ... Many innocent people have been executed. A few years later people found out these people were really innocent. ...

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In its simplest form, capital punishment is defined as one person taking the life of another. ... " There is good and bad in every person. ... Losing a loved one, no matter how that person is lost, is unbearable, irrevocable, and shattering. ... " Also, it is too final, meaning it does not allow opportunity for the accused to be proven innocent, a violation of section eleven of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms which states: "Any person charged with an offence has the right (d) to be presumed innocent until proven guilty according to law in a fair and public hearing ...

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In its simplest form, capital punishment is defined as one person taking the life of another. ... " There is good and bad in every person. ... Losing a loved one, no matter how that person is lost, is unbearable, irrevocable, and shattering. ... " Also, it is too final, meaning it does not allow opportunity for the accused to be proven innocent, a violation of section eleven of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms which states: "Any person charged with an offence has the right (d) to be presumed innocent until proven guilty according to law in a fair and public hearing ...

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Each person has different morals and different ideas of what is right and wrong. ... The death penalty condemns the innocent to die. 4. ... The death penalty condemns the innocent to die. ... Reason three the penalty condemns the innocent to die. ... Conclusion Every person's morals are different. ...

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Now I ask you, is taking an innocent mans life moral. ... The first is the execution of innocent people. As former Supreme Court justice Harry Blackmun said,the execution of an innocent person comes perilously close to simple murder. ... It is impossible to calculate the risk that an innocent person will be executed, but the risk is not zero, as the record of convicted, sentenced, and executed innocents shows. ... After reviewing over 2,500 homicide cases in that state, controlling for nonracial factors, he concluded that a person acaccused of killing a white was 4.3 times more likely to be se...

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