How much is a Life worth?
Imagine that you are wrongfully accused of a crime, and due some factor, you are convicted of a crime that you did not commit, and your sentencing is the death penalty. How much would you say that your life is worth, and how much would you be willing to pay in order to know that you'll have time to prove your innocence? This is the feeling that over 120 people from 1973 to the present day have felt. These people were eventually released from death row when their innocence was proven. If this many people have been proven innocent and released before their scheduled execution date arrived, how many people were truly innocent, but were killed before proof of their innocence was discovered? We will never know, but as long as we have such obvious proof of our justice system's flaws, convictions should not be a life or death matter.
One of the main reasons that many people oppose the abolishment of the death penalty is the fact that tax dollars go to......
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