Death Penalty!

In an article on Statesman.com, the editorial board talks about the death penalty. The intended audience this article is trying to grab attention is anyone who is involved with or is interested in the death penalties rights. The author states that the Supreme Court made a vote giving a “…significant victory for death penalty supporters…” However, he continues to say that at the bottom of this dilemma, the ultimate question is, “Are we sure we’ve got the right person?” The editorial feels that the death penalty advocates should “…live with perpetual fear of conclusive post-execution evidence that raises serious questions about guilt”  In the case of Skinner, the Supreme Court decision allowed him to follow  “a federal civil rights lawsuit in which he is seeking court-ordered testing of DNA evidence not used at his trial” The editorial gave this particular example in order to prove that innocent people are sentenced. In the Innocence Project, the editorial writes, “…there have been 266 post-conviction exonerations in the U.S, including 17 cases in which defendants who had been sentenced to death were found not guilty.” I personally am not in favor of killing an innocent suspect, however the evidence is limited at times and  people will take what others say as evidence, even if it isn’t true. These ways of death penalties have been going on for years, and it is unfortunate but it isn’t humanly possible to find absolutely all the evidence to prove someone innocent unless there was some kind of actual video of the incident.