veryone should be given a fair trial. These statistics do not prove to me that these people had a fair trial.Everybody makes mistakes. If a jury makes a mistake and a person is falsely accused of murder when they find out they messed up they want to take the sentence away. If the sentence is life in prison, they can tell the person they are sorry and they can go free. It does not work that way if they sentence a person to death. If a jury falsely accuses a person of a crime they did not commit with a sentence to death, they can not take it back. It will be too late. The person will not be able to get their life back. Every year four innocent people are put to death. "Since 1976, seventy people on death row were found innocent of the charges they were accused of." (Death Penalty Information Center)Although some people feel the death penalty is a good thing, I think it is wrong. When someone has committed the crime of murder it creates a great loss for the victims family. Does putting the killer to death make the family of the victim feel any better? They still have to live with the loss of their loved one for the rest of their lives. Taking the life of someone else does not redeem the life of the person that was killed. In many cases, the families of the victims do not want the murderer to be put to death. One case I read about a nine year-old girl was abducted and murdered. Her father said, "She was shy, joyous, and happy she would never hurt anybody. Hurting someone for her would not really be for her, would not honor her, or help us." (Diego Ribadeneira, p.2) What he said is true, it does not help the victim or the family to kill the criminal. Her father knew she would not want anyone to be hurt for her so the death penalty would not help in any way.When we put criminals on death row for committing the crime of murder, we are stooping to their level. Murderers are not role models. Why should we follow what they ...
