Sentence examples for executing the innocent from inspiring English sources

As Americans worry about the risk of executing the innocent and the extraordinarily high financial cost of executions, and as state legislatures consider abolition, it's important not to forget the evidence left, over more than a century, right there on the gurney.

And the risk of executing the innocent remains very real.

It will be because they're afraid of executing the innocent.

"If the death penalty has an Achilles' heel, it's executing the innocent," Mr. Jones said.

"There certainly is a risk of executing the innocent and that risk still exists today," he said.

The former trend represented a genuine revolution in how we treated the guilty; the latter trend just reflects our anxieties about possibly executing the innocent.

If we execute the innocent or the undeserving, then we have undermined, not reinforced, our sense of moral proportion.

Research consistently shows that capital punishment does not deter criminal behavior, is prohibitively expensive and sometimes executes the innocent.

By its very nature, though, the death penalty — which makes it possible for the state to execute the innocent — imperils exactly those rights and protections the Constitution seeks to guarantee.

Tom and Austin will fabricate evidence that will get Tom convicted of an unsolved murder — thereby proving, when they reveal the hoax, how easy it is for the state to execute the innocent.

There is no evidence that the death penalty deters crime, it does nothing to bring back victims, and we even create more victims when we execute the innocent (or the guilty, for that matter).