Innocent people will not just stand by and hold back when an unforgivable crime had been committed. ... Should a person argue that killing is always wrong, they must concede that killing in self-defense is unacceptable. ... "The death penalty condemns the innocent to die." ... The truth is; there is no proof that the criminals executed were innocent. Before any person executed, twelve juries have to decide that defendant is guilty. ...

• Word Count: 412
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 563
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 563
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 563
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

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? ...

• Word Count: 914
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

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....

• Word Count: 604
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Innocent people are being executed and will continue to be executed unless the death penalty is abolished. ... The lack of proper resources during a trial can make the difference between the innocence and guilt of a person. The death penalty does not always show the innocence or guilt of a person. ... This use of fraudulent attorneys in a case can lead to enough inaccuracies in the evidence to wrongfully execute a person. ... Race plays a big part in the sentence of guilty or innocent. ...

• Word Count: 519
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

When a person takes another person's life, justice is disturbed and unless the balance is restored, society turns to violence. ... Finally one of the biggest problems with the death penalty is the risk of executing an innocent person. It has not been proven that an innocent person has ever been executed in the United States. ... The people in the opposition to the death penalty state that it is an irrevocable sentence and once the penalty is carried out we cannot bring an innocent person back to life. ... Executing an innocent person could be stopped by using sentences of life in pris...

• Word Count: 1078
• Approx Pages: 4

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....

• Word Count: 858
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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. ...

• Word Count: 737
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

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...

• Word Count: 847
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 1056
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography

Feingold argued against capital punishment based on the theory that the government made too many mistakes and is more likely to let an innocent suffer. Feingold states, it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than one innocent suffer. ... If ten guilty people were set free to save the one innocent, how many more innocents shall suffer due to the ten escaped guilty people? ...

• Word Count: 254
• Approx Pages: 1

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. ...

• Word Count: 486
• Approx Pages: 2

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. ...

• Word Count: 904
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 487
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

However, in reality, we often see the opposite--police interrogations so aggressive that the truly innocent believe they are guilty and lawyers so corrupt that they weave lies out of the truth. ... Even though the justice system and the world ignored the truth, at least Robert had peace of mind knowing he was innocent. ... Some innocent people on death row were not so lucky. ... " by Maurice Possley and Steve Mills, through the story of Carlos DeLuna, we see that the innocent really do die for the crimes of the guilty. ... The eyewitness was sure that the person he saw was Hispanic and ma...

• Word Count: 585
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

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. ...

• Word Count: 1167
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

There is finally the problem of innocent people getting executed. ... It does not occur very often, but even one innocent person who is executed is a terrible tragedy. However, there are most likely people serving a life sentence who are innocent as well. It is true that these people have more time to prove themselves innocent, but this does not always happen. ... It is better to run the risk of executing an innocent person then to abolish the death penalty and run the risk of so many more people being murdered by those who get out of jail or kill inside the prisons. ...

• Word Count: 772
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The third objection against death penalty is that there is possibility that a convict who is on death row may turn out to be innocent because of the mistakes or flaws in justice system. ... From that we can see that the combination of a fallible justice system and death penalty could ruin an innocent person's life. ... Methods of execution such as lethal Injection, firing squad or electrocution cause enormous suffering to the condemned person. ... In conclusion, the death penalty should, under no circumstances, be abolished, because it cannot deter crimes, immoral to serve as retribution,...

• Word Count: 788
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

If one of your family members were convicted of murder, but they were completely innocent and were still put to death, how would you feel? What if weeks later after the death of that family member someone proved them innocent? ... If a person is guilty and is sentenced to death, they never get to feel pain or guilt for the crime they have committed. ... Since 1990, thirty-three people have been released from death row when they were proven innocent. ... Having such an unreliable outcome can cause a person that's completely innocent to die. ...

• Word Count: 759
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Who Needs the Death Penalty Anyway There is no way any person could tell me that the death penalty is a form of justice. ... When a person kills another person they are not thinking of the consequences they might face. ... Gutierrez 3 While doing all this death penalty research I often wondered if there were really innocent people on death row? ... Part of the problem there is when an innocent person is executed that person can't be brought back, and the real killer is still on the streets ready to kill someone else. In my opinion sentencing an innocent person to death is one of t...

• Word Count: 781
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

In some cases the criminal acts as if he/she does not know about the crime and try to become "innocent".... "[N]ew DNA techniques" are being used to prove the "innocent people" are, indeed innocent (Goldberg). ... Award-winning journalist, Jonah Goldberg discredits opponents' arguments, because they try to make every criminal seem innocent. ... The death penalty is not getting rid of anything, but the person who committed the crime. ... People have their opinion and opponents of the death penalty either think criminals deserve a second chance or that the cri...

• Word Count: 889
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The death penalty is meant to redress wrongs, to correct the death of the innocent. ... It can not be relied on to weed out the innocent, nor restore a wrongful death. ... The relief a person feels after hearing that his loved one's slayer has been put to death is shallow. ... It can not be relied on to weed out the innocent, nor restore a wrongful death. ... The relief a person feels after hearing that his loved one's slayer has been put to death is shallow. ...

• Word Count: 1100
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

First of all, innocent people have been sentenced to death and some have been put to death for a crime they did not commit. ... However, condemning innocent people to death is something this country should be mortified and embarrassed by. Abolishing the death penalty cannot ensure innocent people will not be convicted and sentenced to jail time. ... When a person takes another person's life the victim's family is subjected to a devastating amount of pain and grief. ... Many of the crimes that a person can receive the death penalty for are crimes of passion. ...

• Word Count: 1188
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School