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I'm on the fence about the death penalty myself, mostly because there are so many people exonerated after death due to convictions based on bad evidence.
Having spent more than 30 years in prison after being convicted of murder, an American woman has been freed after recently discovered DNA evidence overturned her conviction.
Cathy Woods, 64, was imprisoned in 1980 for the 1976 stabbing death of 19-year-old Michelle Mitchell, who was killed on the outskirts of the University of Nevada campus in Reno.
originally posted by: IvanAstikov
If a death sentence was a genuine deterrent, it'd only need to be carried out once. If you are starting to get squeamish about the effects one particular method of execution is producing, perhaps it's time to reconsider the whole idea, rather than seek a more "humane" method.
originally posted by: IvanAstikov
If a death sentence was a genuine deterrent, it'd only need to be carried out once. If you are starting to get squeamish about the effects one particular method of execution is producing, perhaps it's time to reconsider the whole idea, rather than seek a more "humane" method.
The United States was the only country in the Americas to carry out executions in 2014. The United States carries out more executions than any other liberal democracy (as defined by Freedom House) in the world. The only other country in the Americas which practices capital punishment is St. Kitts & Nevis.