history. Throughout centuries, countries have been using capital punishment as

a way of dealing with criminals whose crimes were so outrageous, only death was

a way of proving justice was served. Due to the fact that the death penalty can

and has been inflicted on innocent people, evidence that the death penalty is

not an effective deterrent, and that capital punishment is discriminative proves

to me that there are changes that must be made in our legal system. I do

believe capital punishment is necessary but we must take certain precautions

Just a few days ago was watching 60 Minutes and there was a man on death

row since 1982. He was found innocent this year through the use of DNA and

forensic science. I'm convinced that there are more people on death row that

are innocent and there are also many were put death who were innocent-this is

the huge problem our justice system must handle. It seems like our law-

enforcement personnel want to solve the crime as soon as possible so they can

how we're able to fill in these gaps in our system since the same problems have

If so, then I fill those people should be put death.

ignorance of the law is a factor because not many criminals know the specific

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