According to the site USLegal “Witherspoon v. Illinois (391 U. S. 510), the Supreme Court maintained that a potential juror’s reservations about the death penalty were insufficient grounds to prevent that person from serving on the jury in a death penalty case. Jurors could be disqualified only if prosecutors could show that their attitudes toward capital punishment would prevent them from making an impartial decision about the punishment.” This is an example of one of many times that people will often question the legality of the death penalty.
The death penalty is the pushniment of execution that is brought upon someone who is convicted of a criminal offense. According to the Los Angeles Times article The Death Penalty Has Long Divided Americans …show more content…
However, that does not mean that I’m necessarily for it. For reason that I believe not everyone convicted of a crime are guilty. Sometimes the courts don’t always get the verdict right. So, innocent people are convicted of crimes they did not commit. According to US Death Penalty Facts “factors leading to wrongful convictions include: inadequate legal representation, police and prosecutorial misconduct, perjured testimony and mistaken eyewitness testimony, racial prejudice, Jailhouse “snitch” testimony, suppression and ? or misinterpretation of mitigating evidence and community/political pressure to solve a case”. Furthermore, when an individual is accused of a crime and can’t afford an attorney to represent them then they will be provided with one that may not represent them well. An example of this is of the Arkansas executions that occurred around Easter. According to the Religion News Service the sentencing of those eight men was largely due to their difficult upbringing. So because of that those men could not afford proper legal representation. Additionally, race is important factor being that most people who have been sentenced to death have killed the majority Caucasian
The death penalty is the pushniment of execution that is brought upon someone who is convicted of a criminal offense. According to the Los Angeles Times article The Death Penalty Has Long Divided Americans …show more content…
However, that does not mean that I’m necessarily for it. For reason that I believe not everyone convicted of a crime are guilty. Sometimes the courts don’t always get the verdict right. So, innocent people are convicted of crimes they did not commit. According to US Death Penalty Facts “factors leading to wrongful convictions include: inadequate legal representation, police and prosecutorial misconduct, perjured testimony and mistaken eyewitness testimony, racial prejudice, Jailhouse “snitch” testimony, suppression and ? or misinterpretation of mitigating evidence and community/political pressure to solve a case”. Furthermore, when an individual is accused of a crime and can’t afford an attorney to represent them then they will be provided with one that may not represent them well. An example of this is of the Arkansas executions that occurred around Easter. According to the Religion News Service the sentencing of those eight men was largely due to their difficult upbringing. So because of that those men could not afford proper legal representation. Additionally, race is important factor being that most people who have been sentenced to death have killed the majority Caucasian