(5B) DO NOW: Your Best Piece of Evidence by Dario Sulzman

Valeria Perez

1050364 — 2024-02-16 12:31:22 UTC

“Over two-thirds of the police chiefs did not believe that the death penalty significantly reduces the number of homicides. About 67% said that it was not one of the most important law enforcement tools. And well over 80% of the respondents believe that murderers do not think about the range of possible punishments before committing homicide.”

Israel

2024-02-16 12:31:30 UTC

Risk of Irreversible Error, victims argue that the death penalty carries the inherent risk of irreversible error, as demonstrated by cases of wrongful convictions and setting blame. Once an individual is executed, there is no way to rectify a miscarriage of justice.

Elyssa

2024-02-16 12:34:39 UTC

“The death penalty does little to prevent crime. It’s the fear of apprehension and the likely prospect of swift and certain punishment that provides the largest deterrent to crime.”

–Frank Friel, Former Head of Organized Crime Homicide Task

Force, Philadelphia [2]

Yaviel

2024-02-16 12:35:47 UTC

The death penalty system costs California $137 million per year while a system with lifelong imprisonment as the maximum penalty would cost $11.5 million, an almost 92% decrease in expense.

Josh

2024-02-16 12:38:48 UTC

"A federal prisoner sentenced to death has one appeal as a matter of right; the prisoner may appeal his conviction and sentence to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Circuit in which the case was tried. After the appeal, a federal death-row prisoner may also ask the trial court that imposed the death sentence to review the constitutionality of the conviction and sentence"

John

2024-02-16 12:40:17 UTC

“Perhaps the most straightforward argument for the death penalty is that it saves innocent lives by preventing convicted murderers from killing again. If the abolitionists had not succeeded in obtaining a temporary moratorium on death penalties from 1972 to 1976, [Kenneth Allen] McDuff would have been executed, and Colleen Reed and at least eight other young women would be alive today,” explains Paul Cassell, former U.S. District Judge."

Kasheem

2024-02-16 12:48:04 UTC

“The Equal Justice Initiative explains that the death penalty system treats you better if you’re rich and guilty than if you’re poor and innocent, resulting in the punishment being mostly imposed on poor people who cannot afford to hire an effective lawyer”

Alondra

2024-02-16 12:50:59 UTC

The death penalty system in the US is applied in an unfair and unjust manner against people, largely dependent on how much money they have, the skill of their attorneys, race of the victim and where the crime took place. People of color are far more likely to be executed than white people, especially if the victim is white.

Ny’Aisia

2024-02-16 12:55:14 UTC

Given the fallibility of human judgment, there has always been the danger that an execution could result in the killing of an innocent person.

Harrison

11008212 — 2024-02-16 13:01:58 UTC

"Since 1900, in this country, there have been on the average more than four cases each year in which an entirely innocent person was convicted of murder. Scores of these individuals were sentenced to death."