ntil you die. For many people that would have been proven innocent in the past they would now be dead if that law was in affect. They would have been wrongly convicted and would have died. On the contrary, a new poll was taken and fifty eight percent of the voters are in fear that the death penalty might allow an innocent person to be killed by a lethal injection, litterally fired to death in an electric chair, or asphyxiated by poisonous gases. It has been documented that over four houndred cases of innocent people that have been accused of rape, murder, and other serious offenses subject to a possible death sentence. Since 1970, at least fifty-nine prisoners have been released from death row based on evidence of their innocence. "It is an untolerable fact that our judicial system, like human beings who administer it, is fallible. But, most Republicans and many Democrats are saying, "Cut the budget- chop thier heads off," Bradley. However, "Is it better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one." says Voltaire. In addition, I will now tell you a couple of stories about innocent people that would have been put to death under the "Speedy Death Bill." To start with, in 1984, a nine-year-old girl, was brutally raped and murdered. Two young boys and one adult said they had seen a man that looked like Kirk Bloodsworth that same day walking around with the girl. Despite this, Kirk was convicted although there was no physical evidence and he was sentenced to death because he looked liked the man that killed the girl. When a young child is sexually assaulted and murdered, our natural instinct is to seek revenge. All to often the revenge is savaged upon the first person suspected of the crime. But, it does not help to add another innocent victim. However, he was lucky enough to have a volunteery lawyer take up his case. He had DNA tests ran over the girls underwear and the blood wasn't Kirks. So the charges...
