Finally, death row inmate Troy Davis will have an opportunity to bring new evidence to prove his innocence. Doesn't this and other cases bring enough doubt in capital convictions to abolish the death penalty? See Time article.
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There is always risk of a guilty man being executed if the death penalty exists, that is true. It is also true that there is a risk of justice being denied to victims if there is no death penalty. As with most 'hot button' issues, people tend to choose sides and become attached to one of these views or the other. That isn't really necessary or helpful, and it can be a real problem when people on one side start to deny the validity of the key arguments from the other side. Rather than adopt one position or its opposite, it's better to keep an open mind and carefully reflect on both sides of the issue. That's how good judgment develops, which is much more important than having the "right" set of fixed ideological beliefs.
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It can't be said better than this. Mrs. Macphail has missed her husband for 20 years, it's time to bring closure to this case. http://www.savannahnow.com/node/597187
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I'm 60 and within my lifetime no innocent person has been executed. Many have been sentenced to death, but no one proved innocent has been executed in our country. Failure to execute criminals results in MANY MORE INNOCENT PEOPLE DYING. Even opponents of the death penalty who have done serious research have concluded that every execution saves at least three innocent lives. So if you're against the death penalty because an innocent man might possibly be killed, you knowingly condemn hundreds--thousands--of innocent people to death, not after fair trials and painlessly, but without trial and by being murdered, often sadistically. The death penalty WORKS. If murderers who killed on weekdays were executed and murderers who killed on weekends weren't, the homicide squads could take every weekend off. And you know this to be true.
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I believe in life inprisonment. I do not believe in the death penalty. It's been proven the death penalty is NOT a deterrent and it costs more to keep a person on death row with all their appeals than to keep them in prison for life. Of course there will be those of you that do not want to be confused by the facts.
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the death penalty might still be there. i know inthe state of arizona, over a hundred people have been waiting for death, for over twenty years for one man. it does little good to abolish something that isnt even working.
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