Practical Arguments Against the Use of the Death Penalty
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Juan Melendez18 years on death row in Florida
Kirk Bloodsworth9 years on death row in Maryland
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WHY end the death penalty?There is a high risk of executing innocent people.
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Other well-publicized cases include Cameron "Todd" Willingham from Texas and Carlos De Luna, also from Texas.
WHY end the death penalty?In fact, innocent people may have already been executed.
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WHY end the death penalty?The death penalty is expensive.
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WHY end the death penalty?Our communities could be better protected by using our resources for effective crime-fighting measures.
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From 1990 - 2009, death penalty states consistently had HIGHER murder rates than
states without the death penalty.
Murder Rates in Death Penalty States and Non-Death Penalty States
WHY end the death penalty?The death penalty is not a deterrent.
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"People who are well represented at trial do not get the death penalty ... I have yet to see a death case among the dozens
coming to the Supreme Court on eve-of-execution stay applications in which the defendant was well represented at trial."
- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2001)
WHY end the death penalty?Death sentences are reserved for the poor.
Shujaa Graham spent 4 years on California's death row for a crime he did not commit. He was raised on a plantation in the segregated South in the
1950s.
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WHY end the death penalty?The death penalty is disproportionately given to those convicted of killing white victims.
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WHY end the death penalty?The death penalty is like a lottery of geography.
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WHY end the death penalty?The death penalty is a bad policy for murder victims’ family members.
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WHY end the death penalty?The death penalty is a bad policy for murder victims’ family members.
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