The Big Decision: Whom do we Test? ... Other options include testing on prisoners, people who are willing to be paid to have the drug tested on them, and people who are terminally ill, and as a last hope, want to try the "new drug". ... One alternative to testing on animals is testing on prisoners. ... Another alternative to medical testing on animals is testing on people who are willing to have medications tested on them and get paid for it. ... People who are terminally ill is another alternative. ...

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Can we really keep all other people in the prison safe from him? ... There have been free government programs offering free DNA test to inmates that wanted to challenge there convictions but few people have volunteered for this and there have been "virtually no exonerations" (Willing par 3). Richard Willing writes that there was a program offered in New Jersey for felons to undergo free DNA testing. However, they gave up on the program because only twelve inmates applied for the testing. Out of the twelve takers for the testing only three of them were death-row inmates (Willing par 4). ...

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Capital Punishment - Death Penalty The death penalty is the ultimate punishment for people who commit crimes against mankind. There are people that say the death penalty is a cruel and unusual punishment, but I believe a person has to take the crime itself into consideration. ... There are many people today that grow up and do not kill human beings. ... Criminals are egomaniacs that try to satisfy themselves by hurting other people. ... In today's society there are DNA tests, finger print tests, and so many other kinds of forensic tests that can be done. ...

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Capital Punishment - Death Penalty The death penalty is the ultimate punishment for people who commit crimes against mankind. There are people that say the death penalty is a cruel and unusual punishment, but I believe a person has to take the crime itself into consideration. ... There are many people today that grow up and do not kill human beings. ... Criminals are egomaniacs that try to satisfy themselves by hurting other people. ... In today's society there are DNA tests, finger print tests, and so many other kinds of forensic tests that can be done. ...

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Capital Punishment - Death Penalty The death penalty is the ultimate punishment for people who commit crimes against mankind. There are people that say the death penalty is a cruel and unusual punishment, but I believe a person has to take the crime itself into consideration. ... There are many people today that grow up and do not kill human beings. ... Criminals are egomaniacs that try to satisfy themselves by hurting other people. ... In today's society there are DNA tests, finger print tests, and so many other kinds of forensic tests that can be done. ...

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DNA testing has death row inmates from blame. ... DNA testing became available only in the early 1990's, due to advancements in science. If this testing had not been discovered until ten years later, many of these inmates would have been executed. ... Many activists believe that innocent people will be put to death. They believe these innocent people that are executed impose a burden on society. ...

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It is proven through DNA tests that sixty-seven people were sent to prison and death row for crimes they did not commit. ... It is referred to as the "DNA fingerprint test (pg.36)." ... As people try to identify under racial line groups, they become even less reliable. ... Secret tests were done on the suspect for these crimes, Ronald Lott. ... It mentions that too often innocent people are surrogates for serial criminals and killers. ...

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People are not perfect, people will always make mistakes. ... However, in 2014 seven people were exonerated due to new evidence or DNA testing. DNA testing only became available in the early 1990s. After DNA testing became available it caused a spike in exonerations, from 1993 to 2012 there was an average of 23 exonerations each year. ... We murder people who murder people to show that murder is wrong. ...

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During the same twenty-eight years over 650 people have been executed. ... That is an unbelievably high amount of people who should have never even been condemned. ... Another key factor that has played a recent role in capitol cases is DNA testing. This testing only became available in the early 1990's due to advancements in science and technology. If DNA testing had not been discovered there are several cases where innocent people would have most likely been executed. ...

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Jones was convicted in 1989 before DNA tests were available, but when they were made available in 2000, the request for a DNA test was ignore, and Jones was executed. In 2007, the Innocence Project filed a law suit requesting for the hair so that it could undergo DNA testing. ... Twenty people were executed for practicing witchcraft, and the methods used to prove this were very unreliable. ... Of the 21 people on federal death row as in 2001, 81% were black or Hispanic. ... Rich and guilty people have a much better chance at avoiding the death penalty than the poor and innocent. ...

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There have been some studies and actual cases where people convicted and sentenced to death were in fact innocent. We have come along way with technological advancements with evidence, such as DNA testing. It's not too long ago where science has evolved where scientists have perfected DNA testing in reference to murder and homicide cases. It's unfortunate for those innocent people who have been executed before DNA testing was discovered. But as for now there have been several cases where DNA testing has ruled out those convicted and sentenced for a crime they didn't commit. ...

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Capital Punishment Capital Punishment Doesn't sound too nice does it? It is the major punishment for wrongdoers. Death. I am on the pros side on this debate. I will be talking about why capital punishment is good for our communities. First of all, our society has the right to protect itself. It'...

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We can see many mistakes have been made in sentencing people to death. ... During the same period of time, over 500 people have been executed. These statistics represent that innocent people are executed and there is an absolute risk of executing more. ... Therefore, advancements in science and DNA testing has changed the destiny of the innocent suspects dramatically. DNA testing became available in 1995, due to advances in science. ...

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There are some people who would look at the death penalty as a necessity, and argue that the benefits to society warrant its continued use. ... The issue has received additional scrutiny recently due to modern day scientific advances, specifically the advance in the availability of and the precision of DNA testing. ... Thirteen people have been found to have been wrongfully convicted." ... With numbers like that, there is little doubt the Illinois and other states have wrongfully executed many innocent people". ... DNA testing has advanced to a point where it can easily and cost effec...

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You come in contact with different types of people, and learn new things everyday..." ... He also added, the most cases are delayed for one reason or the other; for example, for gun cases, if the gun has not been test-fired,  there is a continuance of that case  until the gun  has been test-fired.  ... If people are busy, then what time do they have to commit crime?"...

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Capital punishment, to many people, seem cruel and unusual, but its purpose is to punish those who committed such horrendous crimes as murder and to make people who would otherwise commit these violent acts think twice before they go out and commit crimes such as murder. ... (Cavanagh4) Going ever farther, Bryan Stevenson, the executive director of the Montgomery based Equal Justice Initiative, has stated that " people are increasingly realizing that the more we resort to killing as a legitimate response to our frustration and anger with violence, the more violent our society becomes ...

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The reduction appears to be merely from people understanding the consequences for their actions. ... They tell us that taking life is morally and legally wrong, yet they themselves are killing these people. ... It forces these people to think constantly about their decision to take life. ... However, it is not necessary for every state to require such expensive testing. ... In addition, this testing does not bring into account whether evidence was tainted by other fibers or contamination found at the crime scene. ...

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These experiments caused relatively healthy people to become sick. ... Prisoners were constantly lied to and fed all these theories on how these test could make their life better or help them in the long run, that they were to blind to see that the ones who claimed to help were just utilizing them for the time being. Although prisoners who are on death row had hurt many people or maybe even some cases families, there is no reason for them to use as Guinea pigs. ... Back in 1800s punishments such as, toe wedging, boiling alive,sawing, and the pear of anguish and many more have been banished be...

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Many people argue whether or not it is good to use the death penalty as a punishment for criminals who have committed an extremely serious crime such as murder. ... With the new technology available to detectives today such as DNA testing, one will occasionally hear about a prisoner who was put to death for a crime that authorities later figured out he did not commit. ... Many people would go insane if they were locked up in a little cell for a few months or even a few weeks. ... They are the last people who should deserve our taxpayer's hard-earned money. ... If everybody knew that t...

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Starting in the 1970's the Federal Government started an initiative to lock up people convicted of drug offenses and other non-violent crimes. ... Comparatively speaking, the number of people incarcerated in state and federal facilities has grown ten times faster than the rate of our entire population. ... However this system of sending so many people to prison is obviously not working as over forty percent of convicts and convicted on new charges within three years of being released from prison. ... Criminals on house arrest are drug tested often and have to keep a daily log of their eve...

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In the United States, this offense is ignored, because most people take it for granted that it is going to happen. ... Upon arrival an inmate is challenged to a fight where his abilities to defend himself are tested. ... The solution to the problem is to provide sufficient funding to the community-based mental health system so that people can be helped before they become part of the prison system. ... People go to jail because the society wants to punish them, but the punishments of prison rape seem manifestly at odds with commonly accepted standards of justice (Hell Behind Bars 24). ...

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A disproportionate number are people of color. ... (Death Penalty Information Center Website) People justify the death penalty in saying that in the Bible God says that murder should be punished with death. ... And with over 3,500 people on death, it does not seem sparingly either. (NCADP Website) Advances in forensic medicine and DNA testing are leading to the release of more and more convicted criminals. ...

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Some people believe that juveniles do not know the difference between what is right and what is wrong, that they act on impulse and tend to not think rationally as adults do. ... Some people may take longer to mature, maybe even into their late twenties. ... Because there is no definite way to tell if a mind is fully matured and a test can be easily deceived, the death penalty age should be solely based on the nature of the crime. ...

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Jay Nixon decided to sign house bill 1525, which would send fewer people to prison for technical violations of probation and parole, which has missed meeting or failed drug test. ... One question that really seems to trigger through people mind is, is double-celling a cruel and unusual punishment? ...

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Ashley should have been sent for psychological testing and a diagnosis before she was ever released. ... If Ashley were granted her request to be transferred to a hospital, she would have had people who could have given her to treatment and help she needed. ... Death of Ashley Smith With Ashley's history of mental illness and self-harm attempts no treatment plan or psychological testing was given to her. ...

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