death penalty

What you have said is true ! But it certainly isnt good. Innocent people are killed for such an act of being charged with the death penalty. And it's always the African American race. Total number of death row exonerations in the USA since 1973: 144 Approximately 60% of all death row exonerees are non-white From 2000-2007, there have been an average of 5 exonerations per year Average number of years between being sentenced to death and exoneration: 10.1 years Number of cases in which DNA played a substantial factor in establishing innocence: 18 DPIC's criteria for inclusion: Defendants must have been convicted, sentenced to death and subsequently either: a) their conviction was overturned AND i) they were acquitted at re-trial or ii) all charges were dropped; or b) they were given an absolute pardon by the Governor based on new evidence of innocence The most common causes of wrongful convictions are; eyewitness error, government misconduct, junk science, snitch testimony and false confessions. This tells exactly that the innocent is killed. It's also bad because families have to see their children or parents etc. killed, and it is very sad. Numerous families and loved ones of murder victims support alternatives to the death penalty for many reasons, including: The death penalty process is a traumatizing experience for families, often requiring them to relive the pain and suffering of the death of their loved one for many years. Life without parole provides certain punishment without the endless reopening of wounds. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent on the death penalty each year. If we replace the death penalty with life without parole, millions of dollars could be spent on violence-prevention efforts, solving unsolved cases, and increasing victim services. The death penalty places the focus on the legal consequences, not the human consequences. Attention is directed on the crime and the accused, instead of where it belongs " on the family and loved ones of the victim and on the community. Life without parole punishes the criminal without putting him or her in the headlines. I state facts of how this is bad. Of how the death penalty is an act of execution towards the good and the bad. Plus the Death Penalty is expensive. The death penalty is much more expensive than life without parole because the Constitution requires a long and complex judicial process for capital cases. This process is needed in order to ensure that innocent men and woman are not executed for crimes they did not commit, and even with these protections the risk of executing an innocent person can not be completely eliminated. If the death penalty was replaced with a sentence of Life Without the Possibility of Parole*, which costs millions less and also ensures that the public is protected while eliminating the risk of an irreversible mistake, the money saved could be spent on programs that actually improve the communities in which we live. The millions of dollars in savings could be spent on: education, roads, police officers and public safety programs, after-school programs, drug and alcohol treatment, child abuse prevention programs, mental health services, and services for crime victims and their families. *More than 3500 men and women have received this sentence in California since 1978 and NOT ONE has been released, except those few individuals who were able to prove their innocence. California could save $1 billion over five years by replacing the death penalty with permanent imprisonment. California taxpayers pay $90,000 more per death row prisoner each year than on prisoners in regular confinement. And all of this is study. You may have won the first round, but this is all mine ! due to my researches , this is all fact !