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While growing up our family and teachers always told us that two wrongs don’t make a right. Since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, there has been a total of 1448 executions and 157 exonerations and as of July 1, 2016, 2905 inmates sit on death row awaiting execution (deathpenaltyinfo.org). The death penalty can turn into a very controversial and misinterpreted subject when talking about what offense validates the sentencing. People have a tough time deciding whether capital punishment…

82 percent of death row inmates did not deserve to receive death row.” That doesn’t mean they deserve to be out of jail it just means their sentencing was wrong and was longer than it should have been. Those are only the people that got wrong sentencing, there are others who have been proven innocent after they had already been executed, cases like Ruben’s. While there are other’s who because of misidentification, false identification, or misplaced evidence were put on death row for years before…

them. The death penalty is the most obvious example of a cruel and unusual punishment. There are too many negatives that the death penalty has to say that it is effective. The chance that someone on death row is innocent, the racial biases that have been shown when convicting someone to death row, and the costs of a death…

If a criminal has done awful things, do they really deserve to live? Do we really want to waste oxygen on these human beings that clearly have no regard for other human life? Many of the people on death row have been offered second chances, but squandered those chances. If they mess up more than once, then what is the point of locking them up and hoping that they learn their lesson. Well, killing them will not solve the problem, it would just push it away…

argument. He writes about the percentage of ethnicities in death row, the amount of false killings, and even the top five countries with the most capital punishment. This really defends his argument and allows his reader to know that there is a sense of logos in his paper. On the other hand, Feingold does not have a fair use of statistics. Feingold primarily uses the sense of pathos by providing upsetting stories of those on death row. Both Bushman and Feingold use different appeals in order to…

death row to then be exonerated after 30 years of being in jail. He was found innocent after the real man that did the crime died and his lawyers confessed that he did it. They said that due to confidentiality agreement they couldn't help Mr. Ford until after their client was dead. What is the law? The law says "This Rule governs the disclosure by a lawyer of information relating to the representation of a client during the lawyer's representation of the client." 0.27% of people on death row…

cost over than $1.2 million- it is almost $500,000 difference. To maintain a death row prisoner to live in prison costs taxpayers $90,000 more per year than a prisoner in general population. At this moment, in 2016 there are 714 inmates on California 's death row (“Costs of the Death Penalty”). Also the death penalty is also growing more expensive with each passing year. A 2014 study in Kansas reported that a death row prisoner costs twice as more than general population prisoner- $25,000…

execution, which deems it unconstitutional. The courts are unfit to handle the workload of death row cases. Also, the death penalty system costs the state a great amount of money. California is voting to reform their system this November. The state will either abolish the system or quicken the process. Medina informs her readers about California’s broken death penalty system that demands ratification. Death row inmates in California have little to…

have been released from death row, including some who came within minutes of execution. In several state across the world, investigations have been opened to determine if those states executed innocent men. To execute an innocent person is morally inhumane, this is why all 50 states should repeal capital punishment. This is a risk we shouldn’t take, by having the death…

rights, this system is not fair. There are several factors that affect how likely a criminal is to be put on Death Row. For example, Hull talks about the “Vagaries of…