Does death penalty in fact execute the innocent, or has it just been believed that innocent men and

women may be put to death. Crime scene science has been updated over the years to now effectively eliminate almost all uncertainty that exists as to a persons guilt or innocence. One of these methods includes DNA testing which have made major contributions to the U.S. judicial system. As of September 2011, 273 people including 17 death row inmates have been exonerated (forbade) by use of DNA tests in the United States. The increasing use of DNA testing to help confirm the innocence or guilt in capital cases is among many reforms that will help ensure that innocent people are not sentenced to death. This shows that even though death penalty may have once been flawed, now DNA testing acts as a reform which minimizes the amount of people that would be wrongfully accused to a bare minimum percentage. Any mistakes made are only a small percentage of the total, something like only 0.33 of 1%; errors are very rare; nearly every human endeavor (attempt) worth taking may cost the lives of innocent people. Signed in 2004 at the federal level, the Justice for All Act is useful legislation in the struggle for DNA tests. The Justice for All Act includes the Innocence Protection Act, which serves as legislation that, among other things, grants any federal inmate the right to petition a federal court for DNA testing to support a claim of innocence. It also encourages states to adopt adequate measures to preserve evidence and make post conviction DNA testing available in inmates seeking to prove their innocence. Eyewitness misidentification is the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions nationwide, playing a role in more than 75% of convictions overturned through DNA testing. Also consider that thousands of American citizens are murdered each year by released and paroled criminals. These are the serious flaws in life sentences that abolitionists prefer to trivialize (belittle) to nonexistence. There is no doubt whatsoever that keeping murderers alive is far, far more dangerous to innocents than putting them to death. As of 2011, 48 states have DNA access laws. A pro- death penalty individual, Wesley Lowe states, As for the penalty system, accidentally executing an innocent person, I must point out that in this imperfect world, citizens are required to take certain risks in exchange for safety. He says we risk dying in an accident when we drive a car, and it is acceptable. Therefore,

risking that someone might be wrongfully executed is worth saving thousands of innocent people who may be the next victim of murder (Internet). Ay form of death, let alone execution, is either instant or painless, so which method of capital punishment should a modern "civilized" society use? It is easy to condemn capital punishment as barbaric, but is spending the rest of one's life in prison so much less cruel to the prisoner or is it merely a way of salving (soothing) ones conscience and removing the unpleasantness for the staff and officials? Does death penalty save lives? According to roughly a dozen recent studies, executions save lives. For each inmate put to death, the studies say, 3 to 18 murders are prevented.
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