These figures raise the question: how many innocent people are on death row right now? ... Many innocent death row prisoners have waited for years for the lengthy review procedures to uncover errors. ... However, after eighteen years on death row in a cell just twenty-five feet away from the electric chair, Williams was found innocent and released. ... Instead of serving and protecting a fellow citizen, they willfully chose to let an innocent man sit on death row for eighteen years. ... Spaziano was my only innocent client" (Mello 225). ...

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I believe it is impossible to distinguish when any given person attains his or her own humanity; in other words, the time when we can stop thinking of them as an "it" or thing, and call them an actual person. For my own sake I say that it is better to assume a person becomes one at the moment of conception, rather than risk the consequences of killing an innocent human being. ... How can we hold that man responsible for taking the life of another person when he could not think clearly, and not hold a completely clear headed person responsible for creating a life; it simply makes no sense wit...

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Like the right to vote, to gather and to speak freely, the right of a person to live whatever their crime is a foundation stone of Australia's progressive liberal democracy. ... (Potash and Walker, 1987) In Australia in the nineteenth century as many as 80 persons were hanged per year for crimes such as burglary, sheep stealing, forgery, sexual assaults and even, as well as for murder and manslaughter. ... Hardy The Arbitrariness of the Death Penalty. sydney Temple UP, 1987) Since Federation (1901), only 114 persons have been legally executed in Australia. The first hanging was in Feb...

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Each person can form their own opinion on the death penalty, but ultimately the government sees the death penalty as a just form of punishment for those who commit such horrible crimes as murder. ... This creates a major problem when " there continue to be many instances of innocent people being sentenced to death."... Should a retarded person be executed when he is unable to understand his fate? ...

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The only one person who knows the truth about the crime that takes place, and that's the man who's convicted. ... What about those so called "criminals" who are innocent? ... That is three times more than a price for keeping a person in a prison for the rest of his life. ... How can anyone person not feel any remorse after taking some ones life into their own hands after it was God who gave them life. ...

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If someone deliberately takes a person's life, then that person's life should be taken to create justice. ... For example, the risk of executing an innocent person. ... This influence is greater "or easier to observe-for some crimes and persons than for other (Wilson pg 5)."" No matter how horrible or horrendous the person is, it is not his/her fault that others would do the same thing. ... Every person, no matter what they have done, has a place and a purpose in this world. ...

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ATL 130 04/12/2001 Capital Punishment: The Abolitionist View "Historically, the death penalty always has been with us in some fashion. In ancient times, it was meted out of those who propagated radical ideas that threatened the political establishment. The death penalty has existed througho...

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