Personally, I thought it took too long.
The U.S. is not the only the only place you can have
"pure" statistics point in two directions at the same time.
"Although every aspect of each death penalty
case is scrutinized for several years following
the trial and sentencing, on no occasion in the
past 25 years has it been proved that an
innocent person was put to death in the U.S."
ncpa.org
"More whites are executed than blacks (in 1997, 45 whites
were executed against 27 blacks), despite the fact that blacks
are seven times more likely to murder someone (just as they
are more likely to be a victim)."
"It is often asserted, for example, that the criminal justice system
does not prevent the innocent from going to death row. A much-publicized
study in June found that 68 percent of death sentences were
reversed because of ''serious error.'' But the report was just as
widely misinterpreted. It does not means either that innocent people
are being executed or that the system is not working. No one has
yet been able to point to a single case, since the death penalty was
reinstated in 1976, of a person being executed who was not guilty beyond
all reasonable doubt. Some claim that 23 innocent Americans were executed
between 1900 and 1973, when the death penalty was briefly ruled
unconstitutional, but even the authors of the study the figure derives from
concede, ''We agree with our critics that we have not proved these executed
defendants to be innocent.''
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