The topic of the death penalty is a very controversial topic. Many see it as an unfair and inhumane way to punish a human being‚ others see it as a fair way to punish say a killer or someone of that stature. According to ( 2014.Bureau of Justice Statistics‚ Capital Punishment 2011‚ DPIC) methods of the death penalty include the electric chair‚lethal injection‚ firing squad‚and haning. According to the article (Balko‚ Radley.DNA Testing Reveals Serious Problems in the Capital Punishment System.)
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Unit 6 Assignment Christian Detmer Kaplan University CM107 Professor Bone November 21‚ 2014 Dear Ned W. Mangum‚ I am writing to you today to talk about a hot button issue right now‚ and that issue is wrongful conviction. It has been 25 years since the first DNA test exonerated a convict‚ and back in 2009 there had been 286 people freed by DNA testing. There are a few reasons that I am writing to you about this‚ for starters I would like to inform you of the many reasons that wrongful
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The Innocence Project is a non-profit legal organization that exonerates innocent individuals through the use of DNA testing. Moreover‚ they work to reform the criminal justice system in order to prevent further injustices that will occur. The United States criminal justice system is centuries years old and does not live up to the same standards as it once did. The American people are not equal. Minorities and the lower classes are not treated equally in our justice system. There have been far too
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Courts often prove to be corrupt through the abundance of wrongful or unfair convictions found within them. Many people around the world have been wrongfully convicted‚ and sentenced to death despite their innocence because of issues like “eyewitness misidentification‚” “junk science‚” “false confessions‚” “government misconduct‚” “snitches‚” and “bad lawyering” (Causes of Wrongful Convictions). As an attempt to assuage this unleveled playing field‚ several corporations have been established with
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Exoneration‚ by definition‚ is the action of officially absolving someone from blame; vindication. Exoneration happens because people can be accused of a crime due to witness error and not having enough DNA evidence. It happens a lot more than what people think. On July 21st‚ 1982 at 3:00 am‚ a woman in Jacksonville‚ North Carolina was awoken by a strange man standing at the foot of her bed; he had broken into her house. She was home alone with her three children while her husband was working
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Imagine being assumed guilty just because you’re the closest spitting image of someone whose prime was to be a criminal. Over 300 convicts in the US have been acquitted due to post-conviction DNA testing and claimed their freedom. The justice system has no room for mistakes‚ but now with forensic DNA testing‚ it’s what ultimately leads to conviction. Opponents argue that DNA accuracy doesn’t prove anything and that the system is strained from appeals. Also‚ some prisoners have no possibility for
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On November 10th York had a Fighting Wrongful Convictions: Journalists Police the Justice System panel hosted by the Journalism Department. The main point of the panel was to talk about how a journalist should properly go about writing a story on wrongful convictions and to help illustrate the point they brought in Johnny Hincapie. Hincapie was an 18 year old who was wrongfully charged with helping in the murder of Brian Watkins in the 1990s. Now at 42 years old‚ and after serving 25 years in prison
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Falsely Convicted Imagine being locked away in a cell for 15 years for something you did not do. Everybody believes you have done a terrible thing and they hate you for it. The people who hold the key to your cell don’t treat you well‚ and you must live this way for 15 years. Your fate is in these peoples’ hands and they could keep you there forever. This is similar to what happened to the Guildford Four and Maguire Seven. The Guildford Four and Maguire Seven are two groups that were accused
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women who know they are pregnant‚ the miscarriage rate is fifteen to twenty percent‚ in addition‚ it is often impossible to conclude what caused the miscarriage. As detailed by Andrew Murphy in his article for the Indiana Law Journal‚ the criminal justice system would find difficulties in determining “whether a miscarriage is the result of a specific action by a pregnant woman that is worthy of criminal penalty”. He goes on to express how traumatic a miscarriage is for many women and how “prosecuting
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Introduction Abortion is the expulsion of a fetus from the uterus before it has reached the stage of viability (in human beings‚ usually about the 20th week of gestation). An abortion may occur spontaneously‚ in which case it is also called a miscarriage‚ or it may be brought on purposefully‚ in which case it is often called an induced abortion. Reasons for Abortion Some societies ban abortion almost completely while others permit it in certain cases. Such societies usually lay down a maximum
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