Isaiah McCoy, an African-American male, was falsely accused of killing a man in 2012 and, as a result, was placed on death row. He was convicted and sentenced to death and forced to be separated from his younger daughter. Isaiah had to waste four years of his life sitting in Howard R. Young Correctional Institution and being treated like the killer that he wasn’t. Until finally, in 2016, Delaware’s Supreme Court ordered a new trial, saying that there were errors by the judge and prosecutor, so, therefore, at the age of 29, Isaiah was acquitted from all the crimes set against him and was once again a free man. Isaiah McCoy was just one of 157 cases where the person was put on death row but later exonerated, or set free. Now, we come to the point …show more content…
Believe it or not, innocent people do end up on death row, even with all the safeguards that are applied. For example, in the CNN article “Death Penalty: Why America needs a rethink,” it mentions a study that showed that “more than 4 percent of inmates sentenced to death in the United States are probably innocent”(Holloway 2). This information goes to show just how weak the United State’s justice system is. Even after 400 years, they still haven't been able to decide whether a human is innocent or guilty. Now, we come to the point that death row isn't the worst thing that could happen to an inmate. In fact, an inmate prefers the death penalty over life without parole. For instance, in the CNN article, the author included a quote from an prisoner just before he died. The inmate was David Zink, and he said, “For those who remain on death row, understand that everyone is going to die… Statistically speaking, we have a much easier death than most…”(Holloway 1). These horrible humans have killed people in worse ways than a lethal injection, so for them, the death penalty is just an easy way to escape the horrific things they’ve