nals deserve to die for the horrible acts they commit, not innocent people. The Death penalty practiced is far from humane; in fact, it is downright torturous in many cases and Heaven forbid if we send an innocent person to death row. Every time the state kills an innocent person, justice has failed; sympathy from our hearts goes to families suffering from grief; then, the peoples business is soon back to normal. This tragic cycle will continue until capital punishment is outlawed. Occasionally killing an innocent person while in the process of trying to kill guilty criminals is unacceptable. The Chicago Tribune conducted a study and analyzed thousands of court records from across the country to find some disturbing news. Research has revealed that, with impunity, prosecutors across the country have violated their oaths and the law, committing the worst kinds of deceptions in the most serious of cases (Armstrong 1). Hiding or presenting false evidence was the prosecutors strategy to deceive the courts and win their case; they knew they would not get punished. Armstrong reports, they have prosecuted black men, hiding evidence that the real killers were white. They have prosecuted a wife, hiding evidence her husband committed suicide. They have prosecuted parents, hiding evidence their daughter was killed by wild dogs (Armstrong).Studies show, since 1975 at least 381 innocent people have had their conviction thrown out (Armstrong 2). Dishonest lawyers who represent our justice system should be held accountable for the deaths of those innocent people convicted of crimes they did not commit. A report released by the Chicago Tribune points out that recent advances in DNA technology have stirred the hopes of many prisoners that may be innocent and looking for a loop hole in getting another chance to appeal. As a result, 1000 new cases crowd the courts, and 75 of which are death row prisoners (Armstrong 5). Verneal Jimerson of Illinois and K...
