1. Death Penalty
It is older then the Roman Empire, and has changed much since it's first use. ... The study concluded that 23 innocent persons had been executed since 1900. ... In addition, the "innocents executed" group was extracted from a Bedau & Radelet imagined pool of 350 persons who were, supposedly, wrongly convicted of capital or "potentially" capital crimes. ... Bedau has written elsewhere that it is false sentimentality to argue that the death penalty ought to be abolished because of the abstract possibility that an innocent person might be executed when the record fails to disclose that suc...
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