Death Penalty Questions

1.How many countries have abolished it? 
According to Amnesty International, 139 countries have abolished the death penalty. In 2010, only one country, Gabon, abolished the death penalty for all crimes. During 2010, 23 countries executed 527 prisoners and at least 2,024 people were sentenced to death in 67 countries. More than 17,833 people are currently under sentence of death around the world. 

 The Death Penalty Worldwide — Infoplease.com http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0777460.html#ixzz1fcoMG8RY


2.How many people on death row have been found innocent?


Since 1973, 139 people in 26 states have been released from death row with evidence of their innocence. 
There is no definitive answer to the question of how many innocent people have been executed in the U.S.; 


however, Northwestern University School of Law's Centre on Wrongful Convictions (CWC) documented 38 


executions carried out since the mid-1970s where there was compelling evidence of innocence or serious 


doubt about guilt. Another 130 death row inmates were exonerated, instead of executed, between 1973 and 


2008 due to emerging evidence, including DNA analysis. A smaller number of people have been exonerated 


posthumously. My personal opinion is that judges and investigators sentence death penalties when the 


evidences and investigations are definitive in proving the criminal guilty. My point is that the when judges sentence death penalties, the criminal is definitely guilty and there is a slim chance of innocence or error. 


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3.What alternatives do we have or could we have to the death penalty? 


Instead of death penalties, we can have a laboring system. It is where death row inmates can choose to work for the rest of their lives with proper care and be treated normally. This will reduce all the citizen's tax money spending on expenses of keeping the inmate alive for rest of his or her life.While the inmate is in jail, I believe he should be put to some kind of work for the better of society - with all his earnings going to the family of the victim. This alternative would help most if the victim was the sole provider of income for that family. Just killing the accused would not bring peace or better anybody, it would just bring more pain and vengeance. However, if the accused is put to work, then the family of the victim will at least receive a little money to help them get through their hard times, and move on with life. I do believe in second chance and I simply do not see a huge difference between prison for life and death penalty.