4% is too many, while there is even a shred of a chance an innocent person can be executed, the death sentence is not acceptable IMO.
We don't have that ability. And I doubt we'll ever have the ability to 100% ascertain someone's innocence. The entire system revolves around a probability and what twelve (or whatever number) decide what a 'reasonable doubt' is.
That was satire; illustrating where we draw the line at 'heinous'.
Not to speak out of turn as I know absolutely next to nothing of what it's like to experience a prison environment. However, is it particularly wise to profess your innocence once you're in? Isn't that just asking to be someone's dick sheathe?
I remember someone eminent said (don't quote me on this); 'that the justice system would rather ten convicted felons to be let free than to innocently convict one wrong person'.
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That's crazy! I definitely do not support the death penalty (for other reasons originally). But this makes it even more obvious that the death penalty should be abolished! What does it achieve anyway? I PERSONALLY see the death penalty as the easy way out for the convicted. Isn't suffering in jail for the rest of your life worse than dying?
How many actually get executed? Some of those guys have been on death row for 20 years.
No, I meant how many total executions have actually been done.
Also, as we progress through time here, many of the recent death row inmates were convicted with DNA evidence. Many of the innocents being reported were convicted during a time when there was no DNA evidence either admissible or possible.
I'd also like to know if they can track statistics for how many get away with murder and other high crimes.
Three people have been executed by firing squad since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Because they asked for that as the method of execution. All in Utah. Which tried to phase it out because it made them look brutal, essentially.
Blue: never used firing squads. Green: once used firing squads. Yellow: still uses firing squads (as a very rare secondary method).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executi...#United_States
Also:
http://theweek.com/article/index/204...thal-injectionHow exactly does a firing squad work?
It's not like the movies, with a blindfolded victim in front of a line of riflemen. Instead, the convicted killer is strapped to a chair, with a target pinned over his heart. Five law enforcement officers armed with 30-caliber rifles aim at the target from a distance of no less than 25 feet. All shoot at exactly the same time. One of the guns is loaded with blanks, so that none is certain he fired the fatal shot. The convict can choose whether to wear a black hood; Gardner elected to wear one.
Is this more or less humane than other execution methods?
Death by firing squad has been proven to be a quicker fate than lethal injection, which is Utah's default execution method, reports Daniel B Wood in the Christian Science Monitor. A man shot to death in 1938 while hooked up to a cardiogram showed "complete heart death" within one minute of being shot. Even when carried out correctly, lethal injection takes about nine minutes to kill someone.
You could argue it's more humane, really I think the reason you don't use firing squad is because it makes you look more barbaric than you already do by having the death penalty at all.
Er, what? You don't think people are affected at all by killing another person in a very visible and tangible way? I'm pretty sure even people who administer lethal injections get kinda fucked up.
Personally I'm surprised we haven't come up with a more technical method, like a point-blank pistol attached to a robot controlled by 1 of 10 buttons. The other 9 are dummies and all are identical in weight, size, shape, but the only difference is one emits a signal when pressed that activates the robot.
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On the flip side, how many guilty people have gone free and roam our streets today without any punishment at all? I'd definitely say more than 4% of those that committed a crime punishable by death.