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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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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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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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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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. ...

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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...

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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. ...

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Some may think that Torture is an acceptable tactic when millions of peoples lives, or just one person's life, are/is at stake. ... Torture also violates the constitution from the standpoint that if someone is tortured, there is the presumption that that person is guilty of something. ... Another possible scenario could be one of an innocent person being tortured. ... If we as a democracy accept Torture as justifiable, we are retrograding to archaic times because our laws were carefully crafted to safeguard against anyone not being presumed innocent until proven guilty. ...

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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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One side says deterrence, the other side says there's a potential of executing an innocent man. ... When one person inflicts on another's rights or takes advantage of another person, he is plundering. ... In considering the death penalty these innocent individuals must never be forgotten. ... In other words for every 1800 murders, only one person is executed. ... Of course, there is a possibility of wrongly sending an innocent man to prison, or wrongly fining an innocent man, but they contend that because of the finality and severity of the death penalty, the consequences of wrongly ...

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The role of crime control is to get the criminal off the street and to protect the innocent. The due process model of criminal justice is like an obstacle course, you have to keep going through legal obstacles to ensure in the end you convict the right person. ... If we did not have due process in the US, people in positions of power, could manipulate the system for their own personal or political gain and railroad the innocent off to prison. ... The common goal of both models of criminal justice is to convict the guilty and set the innocent free. ... Though some innocent people do go to jail ...

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The death penalty is a topic that lies between the lines of opinions and feelings based on each person's culture. ... For example, if there is a case of self-defense, should that person be acquitted or tried? There is never a certain way of knowing someone who seems "innocent" is not really guilty. ... The only twist is that rarely innocent people are killed due to the death penalty, and being falsely tried and convicted. ... A better jury system needs to be set up to avoid the death penalty being the result of n innocent person's death. ...

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The death penalty punishment is the act of deliberately taking the life of another person. ... In the case of the death penalty, however, error becomes a risk to innocent people. ... In terms of the death penalty, the person convicted is said to be unworthy. ... No act, no matter the case might be, makes a person less of a human being. When a person is put to death, some people think merely of a number. ...

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Do you think that killing a innocent person is murder? Well I do, and that is exactly what abortion is. It is the killing of a innocent baby who has done no harm. I think abortion should be illegal in the United States because of the following reasons: abortion puts the mother in danger of her life,...

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Capital punishment is the infliction of the death penalty on persons convicted of a crime (Caldwell). ... Van den Haag notes "Justice requires punishing the guilty - as many of the guilty as possible...and sparing the innocent - as many of the innocent as possible, even if not all are spared" (van den Haag 224). He also responds to Radelet, "All human activities...cause innocent people to suffer wrongful death, but we don't give them up". ... If a person has the spirit to murder once what is to say that a few years in prison with a little bit of therapy is going to change that spirit? Th...

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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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Persons below eighteen years of a age, pregnant women , new mothers or persons who have become insane shall not be sentenced to death. 3. ... In 1994 there were 2,850 persons awaiting execution. ... With all this opportunity for the case to be turned over or the sentence to be changed it is almost impossible for an innocent person to be executed. Only two people have been proved innocent after their execution in the United States. ... The criteria for evaluating whether or not a person is ...

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Wade said, women have the right to murder an innocent child only up to twenty-four weeks. ... The child is a person as soon as it is conceived. ... We justify killing the innocent children by saying the earth is overpopulated, but actually it is not. ... Why does this nation believe the killing of innocent, defenseless human babies is all right? ...

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The methods used to kill a sometimes innocent person is electrocution, hanging, shooting, lethal gas and an injection with a lethal drugs. So what happens after a person dies? ... Also, why is it that a serial killer can get life in prison but a person who kills one person gets the death penalty? ... Think about it a persons life is being taken away. Further more that life could be an innocent life. ...

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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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There are 170,000 rapes each year. And 170 to 340 assault rapes pregnancies a year in the entire United States (www.skyscraper.fortunecity.com). When these women become pregnant, the word abortion comes across their mind. These women have been subjected to an ugly trauma, and needs love, support...

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Though the jury members too easily confirmed the facts in 12 Angry Men to be wrong, this could actually happen to a poor person with a court-appointed lawyer that has a load of cases and cannot properly defend his client. This movie also shows how prejudice and ignorant people can over look and innocent person by only listening to what they are told and not putting any thought into their decision. These people are a prime example of how some innocent people are proven guilty in our judicial system. ...

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Webster defines religion as "a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects... So they go around killing innocent people for their faith even their own people to make this statement of liberation! On the other hand the United States being historically Judeo Christians say that it is wrong to kill innocent people and even oppressing their own people. ...

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