DO NOW: Your Best Piece of Evidence by Dario Sulzman

Yahir

2024-02-15 14:16:55 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.”

Judith

2024-02-15 14:17:43 UTC

If you’re poor and innocent,” resulting in the punishment being ”mostly imposed on poor people who cannot afford to hire an effective lawyer” while “people of color are more likely to be prosecuted for capital murder, sentenced to death,

Jonathan

2024-02-15 14:17:54 UTC

"The American Bar Association sets minimum qualifications for capital case lawyers, yet most death penalty states do not require lawyers to meet even those requirements, leaving defendants without the means to hire a private lawyer to face the court with inadequate counsel."

Marisela

2024-02-15 14:20:38 UTC

“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.”

Matthew

2024-02-15 14:23:30 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”

brayan

2024-02-15 14:23:57 UTC

"Innocent people are too often sentenced to death. Since 1973, over 156 people have been released from death rows in 26 states because of innocence. Nationally, at least one person is exonerated for every 10 that are executed.”

Rubi

105786_ — 2024-02-15 14:24:44 UTC

“If not a deterrent to would-be murderers, at the very least, when carried out, the death penalty prevents convicted murderers from repeating their crimes.”

Angel Mendoza

2024-02-15 14:27:39 UTC

The American Bar Association sets minimum qualifications for capital case lawyers, yet most death penalty states do not require lawyers to meet even those requirements, leaving defendants without the means to hire a private lawyer to face the court with inadequate counsel. [20] Further, erroneous eyewitness identifications, false and coerced confessions, false or misleading forensic evidence, misconduct by police, prosecutors, or other officials, and incentivized witnesses taint death row cases. [21]

brittany

2024-02-15 15:03:50 UTC

“While Black people made up only 13% of the American

population in 2018, 41% of people on death row and 34%

of those executed were Black. “