I, personally, do not agree with the death penalty. I don’t necessarily feel that it is cruel and unusual punishment, however I do believe that the death penalty has a tendency to be racially biased. Furthermore, there is no evidence proving that the death penalty deters crime more effectively than other punishments, such as life imprisonment. For these reasons and more, I believe that the death penalty is an irrational form of punishment.
I do not agree with the death penalty, for one, because in several cases, innocent people were condemned to death, and sometimes executed. Studies have shown that since 1973, approximately 92 people had been falsely accused of a crime and sentenced to death. These people were released
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