were dropped and after the nine brutal years he spent in jail he was finally free. He said one of the worst moments in jail was when "The judge sentenced me to death and people in the courtroom started to applaud and stare-at me with feelings of glee," not knowing that I was completely innocent. In contrast, Walter McMillan convicted murder that had all his charges dropped summed up his nine years of hell in prison by saying, "I was wrenched from my family, from my chilren, from my grandchildren, from my friends, from my work that I loved, and was placed in an isolated cell the size of a shoebox, with no sunlight, no companionship, and no work for nearly six years. Every minute of the day I knew I was innocent..." Luckily these two men were freed. But thirty-five other men haven't had such luck they were killed and later found not guilty. "Justice delayed may be justice denied, but the speedy execution of an innocent can only be called murder," Morales. I have just told you very recent examples which illustrates that mistaken death sentences are not a relic of the past. To begin with, there is other alternatives to the death penalty. I am now going to tell you about the main one. First of all, theres life imprisonment without parole. To start with, when you think of life imprisonment without parole, many think that, the criminal will be back on the street in about seven years. But that's totally wrong. The life imprisonment without parole means that they won't see a judge for twenty-five years to be able to be released on parole. Studies show that criminals are most violent around the age of eighteen, but if put put in prison with life without parole that means he won't be on the street until the age of fifty-five to sixty which means he now posses a substantially lesser threat to society. In addition to, life without parole also alleviates the burden of appeals in capital cases. Life without parole is more cost efficent...
