1. Opposition to the Death Penalty
Even the Innocence Project, which previously gained clemency for 17 former death-row inmates from DNA testing, requested a stay for Davis, although no DNA evidence was used in this case (Severson). ... "It harkens back to some ugly days in the history of this state," said Reverend Raphael Warnock from the Ebenezer Baptist Church. ...
Levi Aron, is a convicted felon, and "his lawyers [] point[ed] to a history of "psychiatric disorders"" in order to plead insanity (Vaknin). ... "DNA testing and other conclusive forms of evidence" are used ensure that the person who committed the crime is caught ("Christian Doctrine"). ...
The Controversy of Capital Punishment There have been many controversies in the history of the United States. ... The test for deterrence is not that executions produce lower murder rates, but that executions produce fewer murders than if the death penalty did not exist. ...
It seems that somebody, at one point in history, decided what is right and wrong, how people should behave. ... A defence motion to have Smith and Hickock undergo psychological testing before the trial had been denied by the judge, who appointed three local general doctors, not psychiatrists, to make the required examination. ...