Life
In 1976, Jesse Tafero and his wife Sophia were convicted of killing a state police officer and sentenced to die In 1990, Jesse Tafero was executed in Florida. In 1981, his wife's penalty was reduced by an appeal to life imprisonment, and 11 years later a federal court released her. The evidence for their convictions had been based mainly on a perjured testimony by an ex-convict. Had Tafero been alive in 1992, he no doubt would have been released along with his wife Sophia. Is the death penalty just? The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948, proclaims each person's right to protection from deprivation of life, it states that no one shall be subjected to cruel or degrading punishment. We can say that the death penalty violates your right to life, it tends to be sentenced randomly, it has failed to accomplish its stated objectives, it cost more than its alternatives, and it is wrong both morally and ethically. Put simply it is a violation of the right to live. It is the ultimate form of cruel, inhumane, or degrading punishment. The killing of prisoners violates these rights. Because of this, over half the world's countries have abolished the law or practice of the death penalty, leaving the U
------------------------------------------------------------------------ ce shows that death sentencing continues to be random in the U.S. Offenders who commit almost the same crime have received widely differing sentences. Race, social and economical status, and pure chance are often deciding factors in sentencing a person to death. According to a 1990 U.S. government report. An overwhelming majority of death row defendants since 1977 were executed for killing whites despite the fact that whites and blacks are victims of murder in approximately equal numbers. In Texas, for example, blacks found guilty of killing whites were found to be almost six times more likely to receive the death penalty than whites convicted of killing whites. Emotionally, the death penalty is very compelling. When we see the worst one individual can do to another, there is a great urge to retaliate in kind. If my sister were raped and murdered, a part of me would want to see her assailant dead. But would that bring her back? nited States among countries of extreme injustice such as Iran and China. Not only are we in the same category as these countries, we are the execution capital of the world! Now isn't that something to be proud of? I think it would be hard to believe that there hasn't been one innocent man or woman put to death because of a false conviction made by our legal systems. As in the case of Illinois where the Governor has suspended the death penalty after 13 convictions where overturned, this in a state that has done 12 executions. That means over half of the inmates on death row in Illinois where falsely imprisoned. We currently have over 3682 people on death row, how many of those people are falsely accused? If we went by Illinois percentage we could free 1841 people today. We can put in place the most aggressive safeguards, but no matter what we do, we cannot guarantee a safe legal system. Why? Because humans run it, and we
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