The fear that an innocent person might be executed has long haunted jurors and lawyers and judges.
Mr Sandel illustrates the old classroom chestnut is it ever right to kill one innocent person to save the lives of several others?
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.
Law-abiding citizens acting in self-defense actually shoot and kill many more criminals each year than police do, and with a much lower percentage of incidents where an innocent person is mistakenly identified as a criminal.
The consequences of an innocent person having their name thrust into the public domain before the outcome of the trial is established, especially in this tabloid-ruled age, are potentially as tragic as those suffered by my friend.
With the current groundswell of death penalty opposition based on the possibility of executing an innocent person, elected officials may now find some advantage in approaching capital cases (even those where innocence is not an issue) with a greater degree of care and honesty.
Every innocent person on the planet's going to start sweating and shaking just being in that kind of scenario, and only the trained terrorists of the world are apt to be able to put truth aside and fake the machine into thinking everything is cool.
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"She would love to come back to Italy as an innocent and free person, " said Luciano Ghirga.
What he said does not conform with the international law that a person is innocent until proven guilty.
The statement also said the law says a person is innocent until proven guilty and that until the club found out any more information there would be no further comment.
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Per Article 7 (b) (ii) of the Convention, States Parties undertake, at the request of the State Party "of origin", to take appropriate steps to recover and return any such cultural property imported after the entry into force of this Convention in both States concerned, provided, however, that the requesting State shall pay just compensation to an innocent purchaser or to a person who has valid title to that property.
Named as an interested person in the Complaint is the innocent victim Sheila Brandner, who can now presumably assert her claim against the seized funds, which the U.S. government is unlikely to contest after the payment of taxes, interest, and probably what will be very substantial fines levied against her ex-husband.
I've had that a lot, where a person is engaged in some kind of innocent behavior and ultimately even in trying to vindicate themselves they wind up being physically arrested or even physically assaulted.
No rational person wants to kill himself on drugs or witness innocent others kill themselves in similar manner.
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Once again, only a truly crazy person would or could murder or be needlessly violent toward an innocent.
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The plot in outline is a noir trope: An innocent man is wrongly convicted for murdering his wife, and the one person who can save him by providing an alibi has seemingly vanished.
They have been told they ought not get involved in too much technicality, and that broadly if they get a feeling that a person is guilty, then declare him guilty and if he is innocent, then declare him innocent.
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.
Shots of seemingly innocent objects a bus pole, an empty glass, both recently touched by an infected person are held for just an instant longer than usual.
Only a truly crazy person could be so cruel as to open fire on defenseless individuals in movie theaters, or on innocent children in schools, so why not re-institutionalize the insane?
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