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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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First of all, people who stand against death penalty, support that because it is thought to be a form of punishment, the examination of motives, which made the convict commit a crime, is a quite essential element as it may give a good explanation for his malefaction and let's not ignore the possibility that the accused person proves to be innocent. ... According to their beliefs, deciding on a person's death is not a sign of good will or forgiveness as it doesn't give the convict a chance of remorse for what he/she has done. ... As criminals cause a lot of pain to the fam...

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Essay Conventions and Structure This essay will be written in the THIRD PERSON. ... Those who oppose capital punishment argue that the death penalty is unjust, immoral, and indefensible state sanctioned murder of a human being who is undeserving of execution even though they have committed a heinous crime, that vengeance is not the answer for healing the grief of victim's families or communities, does not act as a deterrent to crime, and is not an acceptable alternative to long-term imprisonment because the death penalty carries the possibility of wrongful execution of an innocent perso...

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In this case, the Supreme Court held that a potential juror's mere reservation about the death penalty were insufficient grounds to prevent that person from serving on the jury in a death penalty case. ... A person is less likely to do something, if he or she thinks that harm will come to him. ... As Isaac Ehrlich is quoted saying, "If the execution of a guilty capital murderer deters the murder of one innocent life, the execution is justified.... We have no way of judging how many innocent persons have been executed, but we can be certain there were some." ... This creates a major p...

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That did not happen because many opponents of the death penalty feel that criminal justice policymakers, judges, and prosecutors do not have the right to decide the fate of another person's life regardless of the seriousness of the crime. ...

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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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For instance, if someone kills another person for whatever reason, and in response to that we kill that person in the name of law, it seems like we are emerging the feeling of retribution in our society. ... Adding more credence, it is more immoral if innocent executes by mistake. ... Gray in his article, Facing Facts on the Death Penalty, writes that, "As a practical matter, if a person knows that he has committed an offense that would qualify him for the death penalty, that person tends to feel, with some justification, that he has nothing more to lose. ...

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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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We are given the ideals of "innocent until proven guilty," and that guilt requires evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. ... A person seeking to refute this statistic may argue that one of African descent is more likely to commit a murder; that's fair, we are all entitled to our opinion. ... The facts show irrefutable discriminatory evidence; should you kill a white person, you are more likely to face the death penalty. ... That's why you"re never going to find a rich person on death row" (49). ...

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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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