Further, these individuals are able to work and contribute to their own keep as well as pay child support. The timeliness of the process of the Death Penalty Appeal is one of the measures that have attempted to be built into the justice system to bar rash action on the part of justice that often too late becomes informed of errors of great magnitude. The Ohio State University report states that the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences' Center for Survey Research conducted a study in determining the general consensus of the American perspective on the use of the death penalty. When asked whether they favor or oppose the death penalty for persons convicted of murder, 74% of Ohioans report being in favor with 11% of those indicating that their being in favor was contingent upon the presence of certain circumstances. 23% reported opposition to the use of the death penalty, while 3% expressed ambivalence." (Ohio State University, 1999) Stated as well is that: "When questioned as to the likelihood of an innocent person being wrongly convicted and executed, 68% of Ohioans reported such an occurrence to be either somewhat or very likely. 32% of Ohioans believe that it is somewhat unlikely, very unlikely or not at all possible." (Ibid) the research which was conducted in 1997 and the findings here are not consistent with earlier findings in which...
(Ohio State University, 1999) in a September 2005 new report by Amnesty International related is that: "Robin Lovitt, who made international news when he was scheduled to be the 1,000 execution, was granted clemency yesterday." (2005) According to the AIUSA website: "One hundred and twenty two individuals have been exonerated from death row since 1973, meaning that one wrongfully convicted person has been released for every eight that have been executed." (Dr. William F. Schulz, Executive Director: AIUSA, 2005)
SUMMARY
The implication is clear that too many innocent people have been put to death in the United States and this is a flaw in the Justice system of the U.S. that very critically needs to be addressed. The quantitative statistical data does not exaggerate but only presents a very wide margin of error when the
sacrifice for having made the error is that of an innocent human life.
Bibliography
The Amnesty International work entitled: "Clemency Granted in 1,000th planned execution; moral debates widespread. Amnesty International USA 2005 November. Online available at http://blogs.amnestyusa.org/death-penalty/archive/2005/11/
Dieter, Richard (1997) Innocence and the Death Penalty: The Increasing Danger of Execution the Innocent http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=45&did=292
Ohio State University Case Study (1999) Survey Research Center at Ohio State University. Online available at http://www.truthinjustice.org/ohiostate.htm..
