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There's no question, in my mind, that someone has slipped through the cracks and that an innocent person has been executed.
These are the words of Jay Burnett, former Harris County criminal court judge.
and this quote brings me to my first point.
are we willing to kill innocent humans in order to bring so called justice to some?
since 1973 over 100 people have had their cases reopened, to which the judge changed their original verdict from guilty to not guilty. If all these people were on death row, then that means that 100 innocent people would have been faultily murdered. what I want to know is that is human life so cheap that 100 people dont really matter in the long run? I for one think that we should protect as many innocent people as possible.
I believe that because human justice can and will, from time to time, be fallible, the risk of executing innocent people will always remain.
Does this mean that I dont believe in justice?
The second point that I am presenting is that capital punishment is unconstitutional. Capital punishment violates the 5th and 14th ammendments to the constitution, which both deal with due process. In the Magna Carta, due process is referred to as "law of the land" and "legal judgment of his peers." Most U.S. state constitutions continue to use these phrases. We can infer that a common law of the land is that the government has no right to conduct cruel and unusual punishment. capital punishment is cruel and unusual. I dont know if you've ever had a specific death date, but I'm sure if you knew the exact date and time of which you were going to die, you would consider it torture.
With this said, I would like to ask one more question. What gives you, as a human, the right to decide who lives and who dies? And also, where do we draw the line when deciding this?
These are the words of Jay Burnett, former Harris County criminal court judge.
and this quote brings me to my first point.
are we willing to kill innocent humans in order to bring so called justice to some?
since 1973 over 100 people have had their cases reopened, to which the judge changed their original verdict from guilty to not guilty. If all these people were on death row, then that means that 100 innocent people would have been faultily murdered. what I want to know is that is human life so cheap that 100 people dont really matter in the long run? I for one think that we should protect as many innocent people as possible.
I believe that because human justice can and will, from time to time, be fallible, the risk of executing innocent people will always remain.
Does this mean that I dont believe in justice?
The second point that I am presenting is that capital punishment is unconstitutional. Capital punishment violates the 5th and 14th ammendments to the constitution, which both deal with due process. In the Magna Carta, due process is referred to as "law of the land" and "legal judgment of his peers." Most U.S. state constitutions continue to use these phrases. We can infer that a common law of the land is that the government has no right to conduct cruel and unusual punishment. capital punishment is cruel and unusual. I dont know if you've ever had a specific death date, but I'm sure if you knew the exact date and time of which you were going to die, you would consider it torture.
With this said, I would like to ask one more question. What gives you, as a human, the right to decide who lives and who dies? And also, where do we draw the line when deciding this?