of executing innocent people. And‚ it costs much more than life in prison. If we look at the statistics‚ about 130 people wrongfully convicted people were sentenced to death and were lucky to be exonerated and released‚ eventually in past few years. DNA‚ which is available in less than 10% of all homicides‚ can’t guarantee we won’t execute innocent people. If someone is convicted and later found innocent you can release him from prison‚ but obviously not from the grave. Speeding up the death penalty
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"This is one of the most brutal‚ heinous and upsetting things I’ve ever seen in my 27 years of law enforcement. Not only the crime scene‚ but the disregard for common decency toward human beings." Joliet Illinois Police Chief Mike Trafton stated. Three people were robbed‚ brutally killed and dismembered. Police said when they found the bodies‚ there were 3 other people in the house playing video games showing no remorse at all. Although all crime scenes can be hard to look at‚ some are ones that
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The amazing advances in health science‚ DNA is transforming the way in which criminal investigations and trials are carried out. DNA evidence and its importance can rest on a single fact: Every individual’s DNA is unique. A person’s DNA profile can be used similar to a fingerprint to link suspects to crime scenes and its victims. DNA profiling—which is also called DNA fingerprinting or even DNA typing—has been responsible for overturning verdicts and saving innocent people from execution. The process
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d Donald Marshall Junior‚ a young Mi’kmaq man‚ was arrested and wrongfully convicted of murdering Sandy Seale‚ a local black man in 1971. He spent 11 years in prison before being acquitted of his charges. It was because of the faulty and negligent police work that a seventeen year old was to be imprisoned for the next 11 years of his life. Due to their incompetence‚ not only was a young man sent to jail‚ but the perpetrator roamed free. It was in 1982 that the case was reopened by Marshall’s new
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scarcely been in trouble with the law‚ but because of an affair with a white woman he got into major trouble. McMillian‚ who cut timber for a living‚ was vulnerable to prosecution. Just because he was colored‚ and was poor he was wrongfully accused‚ and eventually convicted‚ of the death of a young white woman. This shows that if McMillian have hadn’t been poor‚ he would
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Criminologists suspect that “between 2 percent and 8 percent” of innocent individuals plead guilty. That means that at least forty-four thousand innocent individuals are behind bars and most from plea bargaining. An example is when Brian Banks was wrongfully convicted of rape and kidnapping “after accepting a plea bargain under the advisement of his original lawyer” (Rakoff‚ 2014). He served five years of that sentence. This can have long lasting negative effects for anyone that goes through this. Because
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There are three main components under the criminal justice system: law enforcement‚ courts and institution based corrections. However‚ for this paper there are two more components that also interrelates with the criminal justice system which is community based corrections and private security. Without all the components of the criminal justice system the others do not work efficiency. Each of these components focus on the laws and dealing with criminals while they are being processed through the
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The death penalty is also known as capital punishment. It is the killing of a person in order to justify or make right a severe crime they have committed‚ like murder. It is basically a sentence of punishment by some form of execution. I believe the death penalty is wrong and that no person should get to decide weather a person lives or dies because of the actions he or she has committed. According to Catholic Social Teaching Pope John Paul II’s Evangelium Vitae‚ The Gospel of Life defends life
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The Shawshank Redemption is an inspiring story about Andy Dufreine and his efforts to maintain hope and his own survival. The film begins with the story of Andy Dufresne‚ a young vice president of a prestigious Portland bank‚ is wrongfully convicted of killing his wife and her lover. He is then sent to a jail where he learns the lessons about life from a few of the inmates‚ which eventually leads to him being a part of a corrupt scheme to launder money for the warden. But after nineteen years‚ Andy
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Capital Punishment: Why it should be Illegal People may think capital punishment is a good thing that the criminals deserve to die for the horrible crime they have committed. But the truth is that capital punishment is expensive‚ it violates the U.S Constitution‚ sentencing someone to jail for life is a worse punishment than being sentenced to death‚ and the death penalty goes against God and several religious beliefs. There are also innocent people on death row and that the death penalty is not
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