Should People Be Killed With Lack Of Evidence?

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Iritzamari Solis Death Penalty People are being killed with lack of evidence. Capital Punishment is a Punishment for people that disobey the law. People shouldn’t be killed with lack of evidence. 58 countries continue to have Capital Punishment. 102 countries have formally put an end to Capital punishment.
32 countries are abolitionist in practice.abolitionist are people who favor the abolition of a practice or institution.
Should people be killed with no/little evidence?
NO!! They shouldn’t be killed!!

Officers and Police man’s need to have more information before they are able to say something.The Death Penalty have many different ways of killing people. Here are some of the many different ways electrocution, Gas Chamber, and hanging.
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No one would like to be electrocuted. Police man and officers need more information like the technology that we have now.

From 1976 to 2015,1,392 executions have happened in the US. 995 of them happened in the South. We have proven that Capital Punishment fails to protect innocents and people with mental illness and disabilities. It’s not that people with mental illness should be able to do such thing but they shouldn’t be killed because of

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