What happens when the court system is wrong and there was tampered evidence or new evidence brought to the open after the death sentence has been carried out? .
The main flaw in capital punishment is that it cannot be reversed Lawyer Barry Scheck wins and secures the freedom of death row inmates using deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) evidence testing. This brings about doubts in the judicial process and its reliability. In Illinois 13 inmates were released from death row after doubts brought about by DNA testing. Capital punishment takes the lives of persons who might or might not take lives again. How many of those can be innocent lives being put to death. Unless you can flawlessly predict human nature, you would be forced to argue that each and every executed criminal would have killed again, and that there is no other way of dealing with him or her. Today the U.S. is the only Western industrialized nation that permits capital punishment, but twelve states and the District of Columbia bar it. Advocates maintain that it deters crime. They claim that life imprisonment is not as effective and exposes other prisoners and (in the event of escape or parole) members of society are at large to dangerous criminals. Opponents maintain that the death penalty has never been proved to be an effective deterrent, that errors sometimes lead to the execution of innocent persons. According to the FBI's Preliminary Uniform Crime Report for 2002, the murder rate in the South increased by 2.1% while the murder rate in the Northeast decreased by almost 5%. The South accounts for.
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82% of all executions since 1976; the Northeast accounts for less than 1%. Authors John Sorenson, Robert Wrinkle, Victoria Brewer, and James Marquart examined executions in Texas between 1984 and 1997. They speculated that if a deterrent effect were to exist, it would be found in Texas because of the high number of death sentences and executions within the state.
