More on the Death Penalty

In 1984, Earl Washington was found guilty in trial after admitting to the rape and murder of a woman from the state of Virginia. Washington was convicted and sentenced to death. It wasn't until sixteen years later that DNA tests were able to prove his innocence. Earl Washington was mentally retarded and police had convinced Earl Washington to make a statement admitting to the crime. Luckily, the evidence was found in time to keep Earl from being innocently killed by our country. It is cases like these that should make us think twice about the death penalty. What if the evidence had not been found in time, or not at all? Then America would have lost two innocent lives rather than one. It would be bad enough if this was the only case of this nature, but it most definitely is not, and many of the others did not end as well as this one. <<http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=176&scid=>>