U.S. Justice

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This paper explores how the death penalty is and has always been an issue of great debate and how issues such as racism, incompetent lawyers, faulty evidence, false testimony, moral responsibility, and other problems are all major considerations. It looks at how the American justice system is riddled with mistakes and prejudice; minorities and the poor are singled out and persecuted, while those who are socially ?acceptable? are free to walk to freedom. It puts forward the argument that the life of not even one hundred murderers is worth the life of one innocent man and how the system degrades human life by making it a biased game in which humans are like pawns in a game of chess.

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"Today we have numerous ways of trying to determine the innocence or guilt of one who is accused. There are serology tests as well as DNA tests. Hairs or a scrap of skin will be found on a crime scene, and from these specimens scientists and doctors can determine whose hair or skin it is. In many cases the specimens belong to the offender. In rape cases, the semen is tested and usually the person to whom it belonged is then convicted. However, to a skilled lawyer, or anyone else who prefers to twist the evidence around in such a way that they see what they want to see, this DNA evidence can be misrepresented and the data manipulated in such a way that it shows what the lawyer wants it to show."

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