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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"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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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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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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People are deeply concerned about the risk of executing the innocent, about the fairness of the process, and about the inability of capital punishment to accomplish its basic purposes. It is safe to say nobody wants to execute a person that is innocent. ... For one, he was one of the best-known persons on any national death row, and the show of public support for a new trial has been extraordinary. ... Many feel that Troy Davis was executed as an innocent man. ... Although the dissatisfaction with capital punishment has many roots, the common and principal concern heard throughout the count...

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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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Protection of the innocent requires that criminals be isolated, and they should be. ... The most compelling argument against capital punishment is the risk of killing an innocent person. ... One of the rights state that persons below eighteen years of a age, pregnant women, new mothers or persons who have become insane shall not be sentenced to death. ... It achieves nothing but the death of still another person. ... Yet the family is usually innocent of any crime. ...

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"The first person sentenced to death in the U.S was in 1608 for spying for the Spanish government.... They believe that the mistake of convicting an innocent person is unlikely. ... This in turn includes that there are never any mistakes when it comes to convicting a criminal, meaning that they don't believe in the mistaking of convicting an innocent person, despite evidence. ... There have been some studies and actual cases where people convicted and sentenced to death were in fact innocent. ... It's unfortunate for those innocent people who have been executed before DNA tes...

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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. the process; indeed, a disturbing number of the innocent people sit on death row for more then four years. ... 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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In the eyes of the law, mental illnesses are defined as "medical conditions that disrupt a person's thinking, feeling, mood, ability to relate to others and daily functioning". ... In other words, innocent lives could have been ended as a result of a poor defense attorney. Which leads me to my next point: Innocent lives are put at risk with the use of the death penalty. Over the years our technology has improved, and with the reinstatement of the death penalty, it has been found that many on death row are in fact innocent. Furthermore, it is now being suggested that inmates previously put...

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A punishment that inflicts harm on a person can hardly be good or moral if it is purposeless. ... Perhaps Andrei Sakhorov had the right view of capital punishment from a moral standpoint when he said: " I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution A state, in the person of its functionaries that takes upon itself the right to the most terrible and irreversible act "the deprivation of life, such a state cannot expect an improvement in the moral atmosphere of its country.""... Gary Wills, writing in a column about the execution of his friend, pointedly questioned the bas...

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Opponents denounce it as murder, say that it does not cause deterrence but rather promotes violence and claim that it introduces the chance of an innocent person being executed. ... Life without parole is the only way to go it costs less than a third of what it costs to execute a person on death row. ... There have been cases where innocent people have been executed. ... James Richardson was an extremely lucky man, but what about those who died knowing the whole time that they were innocent. ... Making a person sit on death row for multiple years is cruel. ...

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Opponents denounce it as murder, say that it does not cause deterrence but rather promotes violence and claim that it introduces the chance of an innocent person being executed. ... Life without parole is the only way to go it costs less than a third of what it costs to execute a person on death row. ... There have been cases where innocent people have been executed. ... Making a person sit on death row for multiple years is cruel. ... Beyond its horror and incivility it has neither protected the innocent nor deterred the wicked. ...

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If the only means of justification for capital punishment are because it brings good to society or makes people happy, then that means innocent people may be killed too, if it would benefit people. ... Both of these theories show just how easy it is for people who believe in these theories to accidentally bring upon the death penalty to an innocent person. Throughout time, there have been many cases where innocent men have been sentenced to death row, and inevitably killed. ... The same evidence that was used by the experts, who tried to prove Willingham innocent, was used a year later to fr...

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I want to share a brief live example of a real person that was sentenced to death. The person that wrote the article actually knew the person that was sentenced. ... If I could only turn back the clock (Proquest.com Oct 7) David was a real person, with real problems, and he committed a real crime. ... That's fine but what happens when the person who is being executed turns out to be innocent? ... I don't know if I agree with everything they say but it is scary to think that an innocent person could be executed. ...

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The person shot loses consciousness when shock causes a fall in the supply of blood to the brain. ... Another disadvantage of capital punishment is the risk of executing somebody who is innocent. Richard Dieter, author of the article "Innocence and the Death Penalty: The Increasing danger of Executing the Innocent says that: "The danger that innocent people will be executed because of errors in the criminal justice system is getting worse. ... Though the innocent are rarely executed, the trial process can take many years, wasting away the lives of the innocent. A woman named Sonia Jacobs was...

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Announcing the moratorium to those executions at that time, Ryan was quoted: ''I cannot support a system which, in its administration, has proven so fraught with error and has come so close to the ultimate nightmare, the state's taking of innocent life. Until I can be sure that everyone sentenced to death in Illinois is truly guilty, until I can be sure with moral certainty that no innocent man or woman is facing a lethal injection, no one will meet that fate.'' ... He cited that because there is a risk that innocent people could be executed, he ruled the federal ...

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Criminals irrationally perform crimes, therefore, life imprisonment ought to deter a rational person itself. ... Sometimes a person might be put to death who is innocent. ... When we execute an innocent person, the real killer is still on the streets, ready to victimize someone else. If the innocent person is executed then the case is closed forever. ...

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