Death Penalty, Why It's Bad
The Death Penalty. A heated debate? A pressing issue? Only in America. The United States of America is the only industrialized democratic nation in the world that still uses the death penalty. There are several primary reasons why the death penalty should be exonerated. Reason one: The Death Penalty is unfairly applied throughout the country. In Furman v. Georgia, the death penalty was banned because it was being sentenced without standards or order. Even though that Supreme Court case was overturn four years later, the problem still exists. A man who is convicted of murder in Texas (a state with over 250 executions and 450 more on Death Row last year) is more likely to be sentenced to death than a man who is convicted of murder in Connecticut (a state where the death penalty has been legal for over 7 years and there has not been one execution.) It is also unfairly distributed among minorities and the impoverished. 'Since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, 158 black defendants have been executed for the murder of a white victim, while only 11 white defendants have been execu
Reason Four: Innocent people will be killed from the Death Penalty. Since 1973, there have been over 80 people have been removed from Death Row. In that time, over 650 people have been executed. That means for every 7 people we execute, there is a person who was on Death Row, who never should have been convicted. Columbia Law School did a study and found that two thirds of all capitol trials contained major errors. And in retrials, 80% of the defendants were not sentenced to death and 7% were cleared of all charges. The erroneous murder of fellow humans can be avoided. "In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Catholic. Then they came for me -- and by that time there was nobody left to speak up." ted for the murder of a black victim. ' And, as O.J. Simpson's lawyer once said: "Money d
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