In 1992, Robert Alton Harris became the first person executed by the state of California in 25 years when he was put to death in the gas chamber for the 1978 murder of two teen-age boys.

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The fear that an innocent person might be executed has long haunted jurors and lawyers and judges.

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In 2005, when a solid majority preferred the death penalty, 59% believed that an innocent person had been executed within the previous five years.

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After independence, the number of crimes eligible for the death penalty was gradually reduced, but doubts persisted over whether legal procedures were sufficient to prevent an innocent person from being executed.

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Of those, only one person has actually been executed, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonpartisan group that studies death penalty laws.

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If you executed a similar project for your previous employer, the person holding the title of your former manager should be a great place to start at any similar company.

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The decline in the number who prefer the death penalty as the punishment for murder may be related to the growing number who believe that at least one person in the past five years has been executed for a crime that he or she did not commit.

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Because they represent the wishes of a person after death, they must be drafted with precision and executed properly.

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That way complex programs can be executed with a minimum of latency, or time lost, for the person waiting for results.

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Lord Tebbit said concerns that such a penalty would lead to miscarriages of justice - with the innocent executed - would be mitigated by the care juries would take deliberating when they knew a person's life was at stake.

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