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 third objection against death penalty is that there is possibility that a convict who is on death row may turn out to be innocent because of the mistakes or flaws in justice system. ... From that we can see that the combination of a fallible justice system and death penalty could ruin an innocent person's life. ... Methods of execution such as lethal Injection, firing squad or electrocution cause enormous suffering to the condemned person. ... In conclusion, the death penalty should, under no circumstances, be abolished, because it cannot deter crimes, immoral to serve as retribution,...

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First of all, innocent people have been sentenced to death and some have been put to death for a crime they did not commit. ... However, condemning innocent people to death is something this country should be mortified and embarrassed by. Abolishing the death penalty cannot ensure innocent people will not be convicted and sentenced to jail time. ... When a person takes another person's life the victim's family is subjected to a devastating amount of pain and grief. ... Many of the crimes that a person can receive the death penalty for are crimes of passion. ...

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Capital punishment strikes fear into offenders, by deterring would-be killers And finally, courts do not make mistakes and wrongly accuse innocent persons. ... "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 their previous murder convictions. ... Should we be cautious and protect the innocent and honor the memories of those murdered or should we give murderers a opportunity to harm more innocent people? ... Great effort has been made to minimize the chance of a...

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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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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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Opponents of capital punishment might have the idea that since it is applied to everyone, and what happen if we accidentally executed an innocent person. ... The length of time for appealing is fairly long because it is made to see that no one has been or will be innocently killed. ... After all, putting a murderer to death does not mean killing another person. ...

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In order to protect lawful and innocent people, some criminals need to be executed. ... These criminals should not have the opportunity to kill any more victims in the future; they should be put to death in order to save innocent civilians. ... The opposition would say that many innocent people will be put to death. ... (AO) DNA evidence is the perfect tool to prove a murder has been committed by a certain person. ...

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THE INJUSTICE OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT When someone commits a crime as horrendous as murder, it has often been debated what to do with such a person. ... So when a person commits the crime of murder against another, where is the justice and morality in punishing the person by taking their life; how can we punish for killing by killing? ... People who support the death penalty may argue that these costs can be cut by placing limits on the amount of times a person may appeal their punishment, however this greatly increases the already fairly high rate of an innocent person be executed. Innoc...

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Still, there are people who do it on purpose even though they have reasons for killing that person, it is still not forgivable because they took a life on an innocent human being. ... Of course we would want the same thing to happen to the person who did it. ...

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In ancient Europe, there where hundreds of rules and if any of them were broken, the person could be punished by death. ... Let them suffer like the innocent victims that they have tormented upon have. ... We cannot take a persons life because of a crime he or she has committed. ...

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The death penalty has been a controversial topic within the realm of United States justice for centuries now. PHD scholar Hugo A. Bedau, author of "The Death Penalty in America", defines capital punishment is the lawful infliction of the death penalty. The death penalty is unjustified within the do...

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