Edwards, a death penalty supporter, conceded that "serious steps" need to be take to improve the system so that innocent people aren't condemned to death.

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To get this far, Turkey has taken such dramatic steps as abolishing the death penalty, accepting Kurdish as a language in schools, scrapping state security courts, revising the penal code and tightening civilian control over the army.

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He talked about the power of faith to help correct those faltering steps in life when someone finds themselves incarcerated and thus paying the penalty of being too far on the wrong side of the law.

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The study shows that issuers have taken two steps forward in most areas, but also taken a step back with penalty rates.

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