(3A) DO NOW: Your Best Piece of Evidence by Dario Sulzman

Faith

2024-02-15 16:12:47 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.”

joselyn albarrán

2024-02-15 16:18:09 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”

Fernando

208327 — 2024-02-15 16:18:24 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 thevictim is white

Zania

2024-02-15 16:19:04 UTC

The death penalty is significantly more expensive than life-without-parole, the oft-shunned alternative penalty. 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.

Kahsim

2024-02-15 16:19:19 UTC

“penalties totaling 52 years, but because he was only eighteen, the sentences were assessed concurrently instead of consecutively. McDuff made trusty in three months and was back on the street in less than ten, the smirk on his face suggesting that the time had been well spent. Eight months after he was paroled, McDuff went on one of his periodic rampages and killed the three teenagers. Due to escaping the death penalty”

Jose

2024-02-15 16:24:00 UTC

"A record 111 exonerations in 2018 involved witnesses who lied on the stand or falsely accused the defendant. In 50 of these cases, the defendant was falsely accused of a crime that never happened"

milani

2024-02-15 16:25:03 UTC

The death penalty is a waste of taxpayer funds and has no public safety benefit. The vast majority of law enforcement professionals surveyed agree that capital punishment does not deter violent crime

brii

2024-02-15 16:26:27 UTC

death penalty is a capital punishment that execution of an offender sentenced to death after conviction by a court of law of a criminal offense.

Yoni

2024-02-15 16:27:36 UTC

“For every eight people on death row, one of them has later been found innocent.”

Aniya

2024-02-15 16:31:51 UTC

The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us

Jada

2024-02-15 16:45:54 UTC

Perhaps the most straightforward argument for the death penalty is that it saves innocent lives by preventing convicted murderers from killing again.