Death Penalty Outline

The death penalty ?cruel and unusual punishment.? At one time in history around six hundred people were executed, and in those six-hundred eighty of them were innocent but still executed (Thomas 2). Many

There have been some that had been declared innocent before their execution date. In the book, Death Row and Capital Punishment, it states that “Dennis Williams walked free from a Chicago court after 18 years on Death Row after being cleared by DNA evidence” (Kerrigan 88). People make mistakes and innocent people get blamed and killed for nothing. Williams is one of the lucky ones who was found innocent. Not all of them were lucky though. Bessler argues that “as long as the death penalty exists, there will be people like Anthony Porter, one of many death row inmates recently exonerated, who are sent to death row in error” (14). There have been victims who have been killed of a crime they did not commit. Porter was not one of the lucky ones to be alive today. There is too much of a risk that someone could be killing an innocent person and that is why lie in prison is a better option than killing

“Since 1973, more than 155 people have been released from death row with evidence of their innocence” (the death penalty information center). The lives of many innocent people are being put at risk when prosecutors would “think” that a person have committed a certain crime and he/she is guilty for it, without even having enough evidence that points out they did it. This shows that our justice system is not as strong as we think it is. The death penalty is irreversible. Once a

I learned that this survey was based on 7,482 death sentences handed down from 1973 to 2004. The authors of the survey concluded that at least 4.1 percent of the death row inmates would have been exonerated, given enough time and resources to give them a proper trial. Samuel Gross, who is a University of Michigan Law School professor and the author of this survey, is quoted as saying, “the great majority of innocent people who are sentenced to death are never identified and freed".

While it may seem unlikely that many people would be convicted of a few of the latter crimes, there were nearly 3,000 people on death row in the last year. Of those 3,000 people, 117 were found to be innocent. It is predicted that at least 3% more of those sentenced would have been exonerated with enough time and resources.

-Innocence, there are innocent people on death row, and there have been people put to death. Since 1977, 144 prisoners on death row have been found to be innocent of the crimes there were convicted of.

African Americans only make up 13% of the population. Half of all those convicted of murder are African American, outweighing the dominance of Caucasians who make up 64% of the population. Based on over turned convictions, African Americans are seven times more likely to be convicted of murder than Caucasians (Martelle, S. (2017, March 7). In a turmoil cycle, race crimes is an influence on sending innocent blacks to prison. It is believed that 84% of white murder victims and 93% of black murder victims are killed by members of their own race (Gross, Possley & Stephens, 2017,March 7). African Americans convicted of murder are more likely to be innocent than any other race convicted. Also, African Americans who are convicted of killing a

In fact, the death penalty is considered immoral for it goes against the Constitution and ethnic code. The Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution states that the use of “cruel and unusual punishment” is considered unconstitutional. However, majority of the capital punishments are filled with discrimination and injustice. The fact that the majority of prisoners who are sentenced with the death penalty are African Americans, reflect the cons of our society. Aside from racial discrimination, socio-economic discrimination also contribute to the flaws within our justice system. One of the top reasons why innocents are being executed or accused, allowing the guilty to get away with their crimes is that criminals who are exceptionally

Murdering an African American can result in no criminal consecquences Ex. Treyvon Martin , Alton Sterling

The U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) found “a pattern of evidence indicating racial disparities in the charging, sentencing, and imposition of the death penalty.” Moreover, the study reached the conclusion that a defendant in a capital case was much more likely to be given the death sentence if the murder victim was white. Sadly, “the single most reliable predictor of whether someone will be sentenced to death is the race of the victim.”

"Since 1973, over eighty people have been released from death row with evidence of their innocence" (Innocence and the Death Penalty 1). Statistics say that of the three-thousand six hundred people on death row right now, at least one hundred of them are innocent (Capital Punishment 1). When an innocent person is executed, the real killer is still on the streets ready to victimize someone else (Pragmatic Arguments 1). The most important problem is that when an innocent person is executed, they represent another human being who did not deserve to die.

The rules created by Maryland’s legislature are unrealistically strict but they are needed to make sure that we do not put an innocent to death. Even though some people think with these regulations the death penalty should be abolished, there should be crimes that are so sever, that the punishment of death is only right. These regulations are unrealistic but will really help eliminate the chances of being innocent. If these regulations were widely adopted I believe they will prevent wrongful executions, even though there execution would most likely not happened. These regulations eliminate prosecution and witness theory or perspective involve in the process to execute. When it comes to executing someone, I believe there should not be anything

Moreover, the death penalty is applied at random (“Facts”). “The death penalty is a lethal lottery: of the 15,000 to 17,000 homicides committed every year in the United States, approximately 120 people are sentenced to death, less than 1%” (“Facts”). Many criminals have committed the same crimes, but few have been sentenced to death for their crimes.

1. Since the reinstatement of the death penalty in the United States in 1976, 138 innocent men and women have been released from death row, including some who came within minutes of

In America many people believed that death penalty was the constitutional ban against cruel and unusual punishment and the guarantees of due process of law and of equal protection under the law. Now, we believe that the state should not give itself the right to kill human beings – especially when it kills with happiness and with ceremony, in the name of the law or in the name of its people, and now we could vote if there could be death penalty.