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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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. ...

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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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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. ...

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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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You can review a case of a seemingly guilty person who was put in jail, find that they're innocent and free them; once you take a life, there is nothing you can do to take back that wrong doing. ... Society is put back in order when a person gets what they deserve, meaning that deserved death penalties restore society's moral compass. ... The reasoning for this is that people fear death, and that fear of death would make a person think twice before committing a serious crime. ... This means that there is an error rate of 1 innocent person for every 7 persons executed. ... "...

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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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"It's too much power (for a governor) to say that a person should not go free (pg 72)." ... "For an innocent person, the two most dangerous words in the language of the law are "harmless error." ... In 1996, Justice John Paul Stevens of the US Supreme Court states, "Recent development of reliable scientific evidentiary methods has made it possible to establish conclusively that a disturbing number of persons who had been sentenced to death were actually innocent (pg 187)." ... It explains, "for every seven executed, one innocent person is set free, not only from death row b...

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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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Capital punishment is ethically wrong, it does not decrease crime, and innocent people are being killed. ... The feeling of revenge does not guarantee that person will be punished. ... Everyone is expected to have this feeling, especially when someone innocent was killed. ... To take a human life even if the person is guilty is tragic. ... "When the state takes a person out of a cage where...

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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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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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For the person to simply go to jail seems unfair. ... Capital Punishment should protect the innocent and serve justice. ... The danger of executing innocent people should make anyone think twice about speeding up. ... It assures the execution of some innocent people. ... The possibility of an innocent person being put to death is another factor some people have against the Death Penalty. ...

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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. ...

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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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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...

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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. ...

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Capital punishment strikes fear into offenders, by deterring would-be killers And finally, courts do not make mistakes and wrongly accuse innocent persons. ... "Of the roughly 52,000 state prison inmates serving time for murder in 1984, an estimated 810 had previously been convicted of murder and had killed 821 persons following their previous murder convictions. ... Should we be cautious and protect the innocent and honor the memories of those murdered or should we give murderers a opportunity to harm more innocent people? ... Great effort has been made to minimize the chance of a...

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New York was the first people to build an electric chair, and in 1890 William Kemmler was the first person to ever be executed in the electric chair. ... However, this decision benefits the mentally challenged people, they could be set up easily and not even be aware of it but if they were charged this act will save an innocent helpless persons life. ... Innocent people do end up on death row, some are found innocent and let go and some die waiting for their execution or at their scheduled death. ... However, there are those that are innocent to still receive the death penalty. ... A person ...

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Isn't the point of the penalty system to rehabilitate someone for their actions, but if you just go and kill that person nothing about rehabilitation is be accomplished. ... The person should be punished by other reasons which some I already stated. ... It was said that almost one hundred who were on death row were later proven innocent. Another plus for putting the convict to jail even if he or she is innocent is that the one accused can still see his family and talk with them, and the family will not have lost him because of the actions of another man. This time picture yourself on ...

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Does capital punishment strike fear into offenders, saving innocent lives by deterring would-be killers? And finally, the courts make mistakes; what does capital punishment mean to an innocent person wrongly accused? ... in the community are killed, a professor in a law school, for example, as opposed to same homeless person the killer get the death penalty? ... Evidence shows that innocent defendants wore convicted in 416 crimes in twentieth century. ... Florida State is the top Most State in wrongly accusing innocent people. ...

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Such persons are not only deterred by capital punishment but many flock around it like moths around a flame (Spence 98). ... It may stimulate certain people who may not identify with the person they are killing, but with the State that is doing the killing (Spence 100)." ... Capital punishment can not be fairly enforced due to the fact of innocent people being executed. ... "We shouldn't delude ourselves, there are innocent people sitting on death row; no one denies that." ... How many innocent people can the Untied States kill and still defend that number as sufficient to keep legali...

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That leaves many more people's unaccounted for because they were proven innocent after the fact. ... The framers of the original constitution women or any person of color to vote until the 15th and 19th amendment. ... Especially with the many cases that people were proven years later to be innocent. ... Within these 1,419 people, 144 were proven innocent. ... With the statistics showing that about 4 percent are innocent, we can lose another 32 innocent lives....

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