Capital Punishment
Title: Capital Punishment
Category: /Law & Government/Government & Politics
Details: Words: 2650 | Pages: 10 (approximately 235 words/page)
Capital Punishment
Category: /Law & Government/Government & Politics
Details: Words: 2650 | Pages: 10 (approximately 235 words/page)
Capital Punishment: A System of Error
Since 1976, when capital punishment was reinstated, eighty-seven men and women have been taken off death row and freed because they were proven innocent. Since the turn of the century, 343 people have been wrongly convicted. Of these, 137 were sentenced to death, twenty-five were actually executed, sixty-one served more than ten years in jail, and seven died while in prison (Rein et al. 77). These figures raise the question: how many innocent
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