They are saying that one in every seven prisoners on death row is innocent. Some people think that the death penalty is racist because of recent studies that show that 21 percent of the people in the world are African American or Latinos and that they are accounted for 42 percent of those executed. .
"Although public support for the Death penalty remains strong, the moratorium's supporters hope that a federal law limiting the amount of time that can be spent on appeals "the average gap between a conviction and execution is now 12 years "will shock people who tend to forget about a case after the trial. If trial is swiftly followed by execution, they reckon, Americans will turn against the death penalty. They add that, because of the time and money spent on appeals, the cost of an execution is $2.5 million dollars, where as life imprisonment without parole costs a mere $600,000 (The Economist)."".
Warriors and executioners have similar jobs; they both kill enemies of there state. But that's where the similarities end because the warrior is honored for what he did and the executioner has to hide his identity and lurk in the shadows. This was pretty much the death penalty in the olden days. During the 1700's and the 1800's execution's where held in the cities town square where everyone was able to see the victim suffer. They did this because it stopped other people from doing the same or similar crimes. Most people that came to watch the execution just thought of it as violent entertainment. In the later 1800's it was no longer held in public and was made so that only the more serious offenders would be put to death. But throughout time people slowly build up an anti-death penalty group. And in 1972 the death penalty was finally illegal. This was because of the trial of William Furman. The court stated that the death penalty was "cruel and unusual punishment."" .
Now the penalty was not abolished but was to be rewritten so that it would be applied more fairly.
