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No reason to go on at length about judicial homicide.  The pendulum has swung.  ...(after half a century) Allowing our elected government authorities to kill citizens is a slippery slope. It undermines the moral authority of the law, results in racial and economic discrimination, and precipitates the murders of innocents. We have ample proof that not only does this practice not deter crime, it increases the likelihood of violent crime and attacks on authorities. It is bad law with an obvious fix. Those convicted by juries of capital offenses should be put in prison for life. Then, if they are found innocent, another crime has not been committed. In a system of law, and in all other Western industrialized democracies, this more civilized and pragmatic approach has reduced crime and saved innocent lives. Six of ten Americans agree and seek judicial reform. Timothy Flanagan   The Execution Tapes

5 Reasons To Oppose The Death Penalty The 5 Reasons Return to Intro Page 1 The death penalty is racist. 2 The death penalty punishes the poor. 3 The death penalty condemns the innocent to die. 4 The death penalty is not a deterent to violent crime. 5 The death penalty is "cruel and unusual punishment."   3. The death penalty condemns innocents to die.   Since 1976, more than 100 people have been released from prison after being sentenced to death despite their innocence. In other words, 1 in 7 of those on death row have been freed after being fully exonerated.   The book, In Spite of Innocence, notes that between 1900 and 1992 there have been 416 documented cases of innocent persons who have been convicted of murder or capital rape -- a third of whom were given a death sentence. The authors discovered that in 23 of these cases, the person was executed.   Illinois has released as many from death row as it has executed since 1976. As a result, an Illinois Supreme Court Justice said, "Despite the courts' efforts to fashion a death penalty scheme that is just..., the system is not working. Innocent people are being sentenced to death... If this is the best our state can do, we have no business sending people to their deaths."

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