The government will be allowing the killing of innocent victims. ... These are specific crimes that result in a person's death. ... If you receive the death penalty there is no second chance, even if they find out your innocent. ... Also the death penalty causes no second chance while being in jail if you are found innocent afterwards you would be free, so the government could kill an innocent person. ... The government will then be allowing the killing of innocent people. ...

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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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The individual deterrent effect proves that executions save innocent lives. ... If our judgment is in error regarding general deterrence, then such error must be made on the side of saving innocent lives and not on the side of sacrificing innocent lives. ... For example a defendant cannot be insane and the person's real or criminal intent must be present. ... If sufficient proof were provided that a person had committed a crime, the state imposed the death penalty on the guilty person. ... My Thoughts Of course, a person may think it is immoral to kill someone no matter what they have do...

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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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He dealt with the new surrounding with calmness and nonchalance, causing a prisoner named Red, who was well-known among his inmates as "the person who can get things ", to lose a common bet. ... It was all well until Andy discovered through a newly-transferred young prisoner that he was innocent all along and that another murderer killed his wife and her lover. ... In the courtroom, we can see a society with a solid structure and functions for all individuals or groups: the jurist was assigned the highest and most respectable role, with the condition that they judge the accused with fair judgm...

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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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He dealt with the new surrounding with calmness and nonchalance, causing a prisoner named Red, who was well-known among his inmates as "the person who can get things ", to lose a common bet. ... It was all well until Andy discovered through a newly-transferred young prisoner that he was innocent all along and that another murderer killed his wife and her lover. ... In the courtroom, we can see a society with a solid structure and functions for all individuals or groups: the jurist was assigned the highest and most respectable role, with the condition that they judge the accused with fair judgm...

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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...

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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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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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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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If somebody kills another person they deserve to lose their own lives? What about the person who injects the needle into the condemned, or the person who puts the noose around the criminal's neck, or the person who drops the platform, or even the jury who condemns the person to death because in a sense even they have killed somebody. ... Another problem with capital punishment is there is also the risk of executing an innocent person. ... People think that a few innocent people being executed per 50 executions is alright. ... Capital punishment has a 100% individual deterrence effect, if ...

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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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Guy Paul Moran Guy Paul Morin was convicted of first-degree murder of Christine Jessop a crime that he did not commit and was wrongfully convicted of to begin with. False DNA testing proofed that this man was not the murder. And that all information related to the murder case was poorly laid o...

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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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