In recent years, many of the fifty states have either chosen to keep or disband capital punishment. But with so many innocence convictions and wasted resources, should it really be kept around? As citizens of the United States we get certain rights and freedoms. The eighth amendment is here to protect our rights as human beings and not allow us to be excessively punished for an act we may or may not have even committed. But with the death penalty in the grasp of many states it may be quite difficult to contain our individual rights. With innocent lives, limited resources, and rights of the people, there is so much at stake. In future years, hopes for life without capital punishment is highly anticipated for many of us.
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There could actually be a lot of dangers to a mistaken accusation. The person falsely accused may have their lives taken because of one mistake that they made during the trial, granted it takes time to reach your actual put down day, but once you are on death row it might be very hard to get off. For instance, in the states of Texas, they are very big on the death penalty and would not take you off like anything. It could take months for them to review new evidence over and find out that you are indeed innocent and not guilty of the crime that you have said to have committed. You could very well as be dead by the time they find out that you are innocent, so it is not at all wise to give someone the death penalty if you could get new information on their case. "Since 1973, 144 people on death row have been exonerated. As a percentage of all death sentences, that's just 1.6 percent. But if the innocence rate is 4.1 percent, more than twice the rate of exoneration, the study suggests what most people assumed but dreaded: An untold number of innocent people have been executed. Further, the majority of those wrongfully sentenced to death are likely to languish in prison and never be