"Between 1900 and 1992, there have been 46 documented cases of innocent persons who have been convicted of murder or capital rape-A third of whom were given a death sentence and in 23 of these cases, the person was executed." - In Spite Of Innocence.These statistics show that mistakes are made within the legal system, and to prevent unlawful executions, we must modify our government and abolish the death penalty. ... Since 1976, 60% of those sentenced to death for childhood offences have been either African Americans or Latino, even though these racial groups...

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Furthermore, as the years passed, a study at Duke University presented data that showed that North Carolina alone spent over one billion dollars on executions between 1976 and 1992 (Capital Punishment "). ... A woman named Sonia Jacobs was convicted in Florida in 1976 and by the time she was finally proved innocent, she was released in 1992 (Dieter). ... This is not much considering it is only a little more than one-half of a percent of the total state prison population (Suellentrop). ...

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"On a national average, the states that have abolished state death penalty had a homicide rate of 4.6 per 100,000 population, compared to a 7.7 rate in other states (Bedau)." ... In May of 1992, Roger Keith Coleman died in Virginia's electric chair for a murder he claimed he didn't commit. ...

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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. Capital Punishment is not a simple issue that can easily be judged in black and white non-negotiable terms. There are always two sides to an issue, but capital punishment seems to be a multi-sided topic, that is capable of being assessed and scrutinized in compound ways from multiple viewpoints. Some of the social and monetary costs are obvious, however a closer inspection reveals costs ...

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Blacks comprise 12 percent of the U.S. population but 41 percent of those on death row and 35 percent of those executed between 1977-2001 were Black, according to the Justice Department Bureau of Justice statistics. ... According to Dallas Morning News 1992, "Each death penalty case costs Texas an average of 2.3 million dollars. ...

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