Wrongfully Executed
I agree with the law that people who commit crimes need to be punished for their wrong doings. However, I do not agree with the way that the law thinks that the problem should be handled through the death penalty. The bad part about the death penalty is that innocent people are executed, there is racism in the court systems, the mentally retarded are executed, and the death penalty is costly. As long as the death penalty is maintained, the risk of executing the innocent can never be eliminated. Amnesty International a campaigning movement that works to promote all the human rights says that, °since 1973 at least 53 men were released from death row in seventeen US stated due to significant evidence of their innocence and that some prisoners escaped execution by minutes but 23 were actually executed±. People can fall victim to false testimonies, mistaken identification, community prejudice, and pressure. These are crucial mistakes that can happen and a person can be sentenced to the death penalty without a second thought. One article in Amnesty International states that °Judging by past experience, a substantial number of death row inmates are indeed innocent and there is a high risk that some of them
will be executed±. Some people are judged by their past and not by the current crime they are accused of committing and evidence presented in that particular case. When this happens, a person is wrongly accused of a crime he/she did not commit and now has to pay for it because of uninformed people who do not believe a person can change their bad ways to good ways. The cost of executing a person is shameful. In Florida alone, °they spend about $3.2 million on each death row inmate compared to about $535,000 for an average of 40 years for each prisoner sentenced to life±. Now that the judicial system wants to add more crimes to the list of capital offenses, more people will be executed and the cost will rise higher than its current cost. The death penalty is unfair to the mentally retarded people as well. These people who are legally classified as retarded by a psychiatrist should not be executed or even be held criminally responsible for their actions. These people do not know what they are doing and the court system should not take their life away because of their handicap, which is exactly what you are doing. Amnesty International says that, °At least 45 people diagnosed as mentally il
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