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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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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In respect to race, studies have shown time and time again that the death penalty is far more where a white person is murdered than where a black person is murdered. Especially if it was a black person who murdered a white person. ... With the death penalty in place through errors in the trial process there is possibilities of mistake, which could result in an innocent person losing the most important thing we have; life. ... (Curriculum) This means that from the time capitol punishment has been reinstated for every seven people executed there has been one person found innocent. ... If DNA te...

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The most compelling argument against capital punishment, however, is based on its actual administration in our society: the risk of killing an innocent person, disproportionate infliction on the poor and minorities, weakness of the deterrence argument, failure to recognize that destructive life histories of criminals may have damaged their humanity to the point that it is unfair to hold them fully accountable for their wrongdoing, and so on. ... Until we begin to fight crime in earnest [by using the death penalty], every person who dies at a criminal's hands is a victim of our inacti...

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What many people do not think about when they first hear of these crimes is what will happen to the person responsible. ... Others believe that the death penalty brings up concern for irreversible mistakes in situations where the criminal or killer turns out to be innocent after already being given the death penalty. ... This person would no longer be a threat to the society, since one cannot commit a crime if they are no longer living. ... What is most aggravating to those who want to continue the death penalty is that these criminals who may have murdered innocent people are just sitting ar...

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There's always the chance of the innocent being in the wrong place at the wrong time. ... The danger of capital punishment, when we execute, an innocent person is that the real criminal is still lurking the streets, looking for his next victim. ... And in the event that the person really was innocent, the real killer can be found, by reinvestigating the crime, or by him slipping up and making the same mistake twice. ... Is it morally right to end a person's life? ... By sentencing a person to death, no harm has been fixed. ...

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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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A third argument is that the death penalty protects innocent lives. In fact, many believe that the death penalty might even save innocent lives. That is, "by executing murderers you prevent them from murdering again and do, thereby, save innocent life. ... Lastly, even countries which have not executed persons for many years appear to hold on to it because they believe its very existence on the statute book represses the incidence of murder." ... Since this case, the legislatures of at least 35 States have enacted new statutes that provide for the death penalty for least some crimes that re...

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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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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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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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Three innocent men sent to the gallows, murders ordered by the government. ... Capital punishment has claimed the lives of many innocent people. ... The thought of never getting out, and the nightmare of killing the person over and over: the mistake that is killing you inside. Would you be able to tell a person that we are executing him or her based on circumstantial evidence? ... This is because we act so "humanely" by killing a person, that it takes a lot of preparation and a high cost to carry out an execution. ...

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However If it is clear that a person is guilty of murder, then that person should be sentenced to death (Warren 2). ... It wouldn't be the first time an innocent person was killed because of the death penalty. ... Its better to kill a few criminals in order to save hundreds of other innocent people by giving the criminals a fear of death. ... It doesn't matter if a person murders someone or if the government, "Legally," kills somebody. ... Even if they finally realize what they have done and actually want to change and become a better person, they are sti...

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Sentencing an individual to life in prison where he or she will be kept safe and fed, when he or she purposefully and willfully did commit this crime, is not fair to the persons in the country that are not safe or well fed through no fault of there own. ... Abstract chances of the innocent finding themselves wrongly accused and behind bars are getting slimmer as science is revolutionizing forensics. ... We can really only speculate why all the innocent citizens that were wrongfully accused and inappropriately sentenced to death row didn't jump at this free opportunity to prove there innoc...

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Another major problem in the past has been the concern of executing innocent people which is rare, but has happened. With the technological advancements of today there should be no doubt of a person's innocence. ... But for the very few who died in a just manner, many more innocent people's lives will be saved. ... The guilty person is given everything for free at the expense of the taxpayers. ...

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Being innocent is not an excuse from not getting injured. An article name Hard Labor talks about how an innocent female who is in labor has to be brutally abuse by the officers who shackled her. ... " In other words, he was saying how can this female inmate be treated like a criminal if yet she looks innocent. ...

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"Over forty percent of the persons on death row in 1992 were on probation, parole, or pretrial release at the time they murdered." ... If a murderer is executed they will never have the opportunity to harm another person again. ... According to "A Logical and Just Practice" of National Review, John O"Sullivan reported that: 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 those convictions. Executing each of these inmates following their initial murder conviction would ha...

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That is what a person on death row faces, and is then brought into a small room, where you sit strapped down to reinforced chair. ... The person is either strangled which can take a while or complete decapitation. ... A person who gets caught for killing another individual is usually someone who did not plan on murdering in the first place. ... Instead of being sentenced to death, a person could be sentenced to life imprisonment and pay back society. ... If the murderers were sentenced to death the first time they were convicted, innocent people would not have had to die. ...

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According to facts from the CUADP, 82% of all persons executed since 1977 were convicted of killing white people, despite the fact that more than 50% of all victims of violent crime are people of color. ... How can we entrust the power to put a person to death in the hands of these people who are not capable of making decisions in which a person's life very much depends on it? ... As Governor Brown states, quote, " Beyond its honor and incredibility, it has neither protected the innocent nor deterred the killers. ... On average, it costs six times as much to kill one person as it cost...

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Let's say there is a trial and a person is found guilty of committing a crime such as rape. This person is sentenced the death penalty. Five years after that person was found not guilty. Our first victim was innocent and suffered the fatality of humans" mistakes. ... It is the moral we apply when a person is killed because he killed someone too. ...

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Deuteronomy 19:21 God tells us to show no pity if someone kills another person as they deserve done to them what they inflicted on to the other person. ... But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. ... Then why take another life for a life that a person took. ... A study in the USA in 1987 reported three hundred and fifty people were guilty of capital crimes yet they were innocent - twenty-three of these people were executed. ... Capital punishment is wrong as it takes the life of a person who killed another person. ...

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The Death Penalty: Why are some Christians against it? Why are some Christians for it? Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall surely be put to death (Numbers 35:31). Surprisingly, many Christians oppose the death penalty. Almost every...

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The US is the only nation to used methods such as the electric chair, and the only nation to execute persons for crimes they committed as juveniles. Furthermore, the recent use of DNA evidence has found that 1/3rd of all death row inmates could not have committed their crime (are innocent). ...

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