CCTV or video evidence of a crime is pretty much 100% proof.
CCTV or video evidence of a crime is pretty much 100% proof.
For murderers, rapists, repeat offenders where it's is 100% they are guilty I'd be fine with it.
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One of the founding fathers said it is better that 10 guilty men go free rather than one innocent man go to jail. I think we have lost sight of that. There are a number of men who spent decades on death row only to be cleared by DNA. How many innocents got zapped prior to DNA entering the legal realm. I am also against the government gathering a database of the populations DNA
According to USA Today, in 2005, the number of prisoners sentenced to death in China was four times higher than all other countries combined.
According to an article in the Independent, a record of 158 prisoners were executed in Saudi Arabia in 2014.
In 1944, a 14-year-old George Junius Stinney Jr. was executed after a brief trial with little proof in South Carolina, USA.
The wrongful conviction and execution of Timothy John Evans in 1950 was one of the reasons the UK abolished the death penalty.
According to the Daily Mail, in China, there are so-called execution vans to avoid transporting condemned prisoners to another location.
According to the Guardian, in 1989, an American man was sent to death row because he was mistaken for someone with the same name and a similar physical appearance.
According to Amnesty International, 105 countries have abolished the death penalty as of September this year.
According to The Atlantic, in 2013, a person could be sentenced to death for being an atheist in 13 countries.
The Guardian revealed that in 2005, a Chinese company used the skin from prisoners who were sentenced to death to develop beauty products.
In 2010, prisoner Ronnie Lee Gardner was executed by firing squad in Utah.
Mexico is one of several countries that will not extradite prisoners to a country with the death penalty.
Execution by firing squad is legal in the state of Oklahoma.
In ancient Egypt, you could be sentenced to death for killing a cat, even if accidentally.
In the state of Florida, the executioner is a private citizen who is paid $150 per execution. His or her identity must remain anonymous. @darklordal
In the United States, the death penalty is legal in 31 states.
According to the BBC, the death sentence is still legal in Belarus and convicts are executed by firing squad
According to the Guardian, people sentenced to death in the state of Washington can choose hanging as the execution method.
In Japan, prisoners sentenced to the death penalty aren't told when they'll be executed. They must wake up every day wondering if it will be their last.
According to a 2014 Newsweek article, in the US at least one person out of every 25 sentenced to capital punishment is innocent.
Venezuela was the first modern country to abolish death penalty, in 1863.
The Daily Mail revealed that in North Korea, dozens of people have been sentenced to death for owning bibles and watching South Korean movies.
People in Iran have been sentenced to death for leaving Islam.
According to Business Insider, hundreds of people have received the death penalty in China after being convicted of fraud and corruption crimes.
Reuters claims that hundreds of people have been executed in Singapore for drug trafficking in the last 20 years.
According to the website Psychology Today, ice-cream and pie were the most-requested deserts by death row criminals for their last meal.
Newsweek published an article that said corruption crimes in Iran can be punishable by death.
The Dallas News revealed that the drugs used for lethal injections in Texas cost approximately $83.
Bill Cosby fought so that his son's murderer would not be sentenced to death.
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