Texas executes the highest number of inmates per year. What if you found out that the guy you sentenced was found innocent but only after he was executed?
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this is why i don't believe in the death penalty. falsely accused people are executed way too often.
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If that did happen most likely the family would sue the state and the state would be forced to pay out millions to the executed person's family.
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I do not believe in the death penalty either. I think there is to many people wrongly accused now. I would be absolutley horrified if it happened to an innocent person. I would also think the system has failed yet another time. There is never a 100% for sure that someone did a crime that they are being accused for. I am not saying that they all didn't do wrong but how can we be 100% sure unless you see it yourself. Two wrongs do not make a right no matter how we look at it.
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If I acted on the evidence put before me, and I know that I did not do this because of any prejudice, then I would be heartbroken, and angry that the evidence of innocence was not brought forward long before the execution. My job was to find him guilty, based on the evidence. It was the job of the legal eagles to make sure that all evidence presented was accurate. It is the family's task, then, to sue those responsible for not having presented the evidence which would hve exonerated the person.
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This isn't a "what if" scenario, it has in fact happened. Lots of what ifs here: If I was forced to participate and also forced to render a guilty verdict that led to death as a penalty, I wouldn't be a happy camper. I'd be bound by my own conscience to fix the judicial system so that this doesn't happen again. I'd also have to question the validity of a legal system that kills people by mistake, which I already do. I'm against capital punishment for this very reason actually.
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You All are Uneducated about the subject at hand first off I'm a Correction Officer in the Texas Prisons (TDCJ) it takes 10-20 years to execute an inmate UNLESS 3 or more people witnesed the murder than it would be 2 years.
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