... up for the murder of another. Capital punishment should be eliminated from use in our society. The death penalty is used to hastily at times. Especially in cases involving minorities and the poor. Between 1977 and 1992, 162 people were executed, twenty-nine of which were convicted of the killing ... annual rate of 7.5 criminal homicides per 100,000 of the population. States not implementing capital punishment averaged 7.4 (www.deathpenaltyfacts.com). The total cost of putting a person to death is more than the cost of imprisoning a person for life. In 1992, The Dallas Morning News study f...

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... rate. People convicted of a crime that is punishable by death have later been found to be innocent. Between 1900 and 1992, there were 416 documented cases in which a person was convicted with a death penalty and later were proven innocent ("Five"). In addition, since 1976, eighty-two people (or one-seventh of capital punishment convicts) were later released due to their innocence ... person being punished for the murder of an African-American. Also, despite the fact that African-Americans constitute only 12% of the national population ("Five"), they comprise 43.1 percent of the prisone...

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... Everyday juveniles are being tried in adult criminal court. Between 1992 and 1997 forty-four states and the District of Colombia passed laws facilitating the transfer of juveniles to the adult system. Senators are steadily weighing tougher standards for juvenile offenders, partly because of massacres like Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. The juvenile system, which started in England, was invented to ... brutalize juveniles. They are eight times more likely to commit suicide and five times more likely to be sexually abused Riddlespriger 2 than offenders held in juvenile faci...

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