to simply achieve another notch on the prosecutor's guns. The current emphasis on faster executions, less resource for the defense, and an expansion in the number of death cases mean that the execution of innocent people is inevitable. The increasing number of innocent defendants being found on death row is a clear sign that our process for sentencing people to death is fraught with fundamental errors--errors which cannot be remedied once an execution occurs. There is a long list Innocence Freed from Death Row. But most interesting is that Florida is no one state among all other states in releasing innocence people from death row. In 1989 State of Florida released James Richardson from Death Row after 21 years (Richard 2). Record shows that capital punishment is unfair in its administration therefore poor and minorities are more likely to receive the death penalty. As sister Helen Prejan said in her interview with Jerry Brown, "when white people get killed, the death penalty is sought fat more often then when people of color are killed. And when people of "status" in the community are killed, a professor in a law school, for example, as opposed to same homeless person the killer get the death penalty" (85). It can't be disputed badly; the rich are more likely to get off with a lesser sentence, and this bias's wrong. However, this is yet another problem in our current court system. There is a greater possibility of victims being wrongly accused. Evidence shows that innocent defendants wore convicted in 416 crimes in twentieth century. Two of the countries for most researchers on race and capital punishment, law professor David Baldus and statistician George Woodworth, along with colleagues in Philadelphia, have conducted a careful analysis of race and the death penalty in Philadelphia. This reveals that the odds of receiving a death sentence are nearly four times (3.9) higher if the defendant is black (Richard 3). ...
