Capital Punishment, Should It Or Should It Not Be Used In Today's Criminal Judging System

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and not only that but abolitionists also think that Capital
Punishment ensures Americans equality for all . The abolitionists also did a
poll which ensured that there was "no support for the view that the death
penalty provides a more effective deterrent to police homicides than alternative
sanctions. Not for a single year was evidence found that police are safer in
jurisdictions that provide for capital punishment" The highest homicide rates
were also in Death Penalty states with executions: 9.7 homicides per 100,000
people as compared to 5.1 in states without the Death Penalty . It has also
been shown that the Death Penalty is racially biased and unfair.
There has been substantial evidence to show that courts have been
impulsive, racially biased, and unfair in the way in which they have sentenced
some persons to prison but others to death. In 1944 Gunnar Myrdal reported in
his book American Dilemma that "the South makes the widest application of the
Death ...

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his case, the
prosecutors used perjured testimony and suppressed evidence which imprisoned him.
The witness that set him free was a sixteen year old who while imprisoned for a
separate murder conviction, confessed to killing the officer whom Randall Adams
was in jail for killing ("The Case"1). For us to kill those people who have
acted outside the boundaries of acceptable human behavior puts us in the same
position as they are in-we become killers. It is also a view that people must
take because the people on death row did not get there on their own, their
families and communities share the responsibility of making those people who
consider committing the brutal acts they committed, so ...

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