Opponents of the death penalty looking to exonerate wrongly accused prisoners say their efforts have been hobbled by the dwindling size of America's newsrooms
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/business/media/21innocent.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
Thursday, May 21, 2009
More on the death penalty
Further to my post regarding the death penalty in Canada:
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May I ask if there is any point in having a death penalty debate in Canada? Isn't the point moot now that the SCC has ruled it to be cruel and unusual punishment?
I noticed a couple comments on your previous post on this issue. I would simply add that I did some volunteer work for Catholic Social Services which operates a few half way houses in Edmonton. I understand that many murderers are first time offenders, and that when they are eventually paroled they return to society and never re-offend.
People need to understand that a life sentence means life, and the system is set up to keep those people who are dangerous behind bars, and release those who are not. Even those people are subject to supervision for the rest of their lives. While the system is not perfect, the fact is there are very few people who commit another murder while on parole. Many people never get parole and die in prison.
You do not make this a moral or ethical debate simply by injecting facts into it.
When there was a death penalty, which I think is wrong.... innocent people would never come back. It is much easier to got to jail and live with what you did, than be put to death,..what for..for people to forget? There are quite few who were tried for murder , put in Jail...but because of DNA evidence some are now free.
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