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Pros And Cons Of The Death Penalty

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First off, 138 men and women have been released from death row, including some just minutes before being executed. The National Academy of Science has said that 1 in 25 people who are executed, turn out to be innocent. While 4.1% of all convictions, turn out to be false convictions. When 4.1% of the time, you don’t convict the correct person, the chances of executing someone who didn’t do anything wrong, greatly increases. For example, over a dozen other people who have been executed, have very strong cases for innocence. For how serious the death penalty is, that is an astounding amount of people.Those numbers show just how easy it can be to take an innocent person’s life. Secondly, the cost of death penalty for taxpayers, is more than life
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