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...deter crime, nor is it administered fairly. Yet even those who favor the death penalty can recognize the seriousness of the McVeigh discovery. The human flaws in the administration of justice raise a significant danger that innocent people have been and will be executed for crimes they did not commit...
...Harsh sentencing acts as a deterrent to kids who are considering committing crimes. Trying children as adults has coincided with lower rates of juvenile crimes. Light sentences don?t teach kids the lesson they need to learn: If you commit a terrible crime, you will spend a considerable part of your life in jail...
...turn their lives around; rehabilitation gives kids a second chance. Successful rehabilitation, many argue, is better for society in the long run than releasing someone who's spent their entire young adult life in general prison population. A young person released from juvenile prison is far less likely to commit a crime than someone coming out of an adult facility...
During this same period, 95 people—more than one out of every 100 men and women sentenced to death in the United States—have been exonerated after spending years on death row for crimes they did not commit...
...Earl Washington, a mentally retarded man who served 17 years in prison—much of it on death row—for a rape and murder he did not commit and who finally regained his freedom thanks to DNA testing...