... fault that others would do the same thing. If it was why does it not related to other situations other then capital punishment. Imagine a psychological test for high school students where it is shown that those who fail are as likely to commit a future crime as are those arrested for having committed ... in both cases. If it is right to kill to prevent a future crime, then we are just as justified to kill 4 those students who failed the test, as we are those who have committed the murder. In other words, if preventing a future crime does not justify killing these students, it does not ...

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... had was a hair found at the crime scene. Jones was convicted in 1989 before DNA tests were available, but when they were made available in 2000, the request for a DNA test was ignore, and Jones was executed. In 2007, the Innocence Project filed a law suit requesting for the hair so that it could undergo DNA testing. The request was permitted, and ... ridding of capital punishment. As Christians, it is very important to not merely look at this from a statistical and factual point of view, but with God's moral standards. In the Old Testament, God's rules did in fact say that certain sins ...

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... also. Many people began to confess of being possessed by witchcraft and were put in jail, which eventually lead to the jails be at maximum capacity. Sarah Goods four year old daughter was the first child to be convicted of witchcraft and was put in jail for eight months. Governor Phillips returned from England and shortly after created a new court where ... the witch trials would take place. In this court the judges allowed what was called the "touch test" and examinations of the bodies to look for "witch marks". In this new courts such evidence would be excluded such as hearsay and gos...

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