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    The document is a diagnostic essay arguing that the death penalty should remain illegal in the US. It provides several reasons, including that the death penalty disproportionately targets people of color and can result in wrongful convictions like in the case of Walter McMillian. Additionally, between 1930 and 1972, the death penalty was used more for rape and almost exclusively applied to black men. The essay also notes studies finding high rates of wrongful convictions on death row and that the death penalty costs significantly more than life imprisonment without parole.

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    The document is a diagnostic essay arguing that the death penalty should remain illegal in the US. It provides several reasons, including that the death penalty disproportionately targets people of color and can result in wrongful convictions like in the case of Walter McMillian. Additionally, between 1930 and 1972, the death penalty was used more for rape and almost exclusively applied to black men. The essay also notes studies finding high rates of wrongful convictions on death row and that the death penalty costs significantly more than life imprisonment without parole.

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    The document is a diagnostic essay arguing that the death penalty should remain illegal in the US. It provides several reasons, including that the death penalty disproportionately targets people of color and can result in wrongful convictions like in the case of Walter McMillian. Additionally, between 1930 and 1972, the death penalty was used more for rape and almost exclusively applied to black men. The essay also notes studies finding high rates of wrongful convictions on death row and that the death penalty costs significantly more than life imprisonment without parole.

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    Rulissa rivera

    English 101

    2/16/2020

    Diagnostic Essay
    My argument on why the death penalty should stay illegal in the US it's

    because the death penalty target people of color and the person on trial for the

    crime can be wrongfully committed and sentence to the death. The crimes

    punishable for the death penalty besides murder it is Infanticide, Rape,

    Kidnapping and serious illegal detention. I strongly think the death penalty

    should stay legal because people can falsely accuse someone of murrder purely

    out of racism and can be easily sentence to the death penalty. For example the

    Walter McMillian's case in 1988 who was wrongfully sentence to the death

    penalty Walter McMillian who is Black was convicted and sentenced to death for

    the campthe murder of a young white woman who worked as a clerk in a dry

    cleaning store in Monroeville, Alabama.

    His trial lasted only a day and a half. Three witnesses testified against Mr.

    McMillian and the jury ignored multiple alibi witnesses, who were Black, that

    testified that he was at a church fish fry at the time of the crime. The trial judge

    overrode the jury’s sentencing verdict for life and sentenced Mr. McMillian to

    death. He needed to fight and prove his innocence with his lawyer Bryan

    Stevenson's There is a movie based on his case that was released in 2019 called

    Just mercy. Also another reason why I would support the death penalty to stay

    illegal is because the death penalty was more used for rape more than any other

    crime between 1930 and 1972 455 people were executed of rape 405 (89%) of those
    were extended to be black and 97% of those allegations occurred in the former

    contradicted in the United States. no white man has been executed for a non-

    homicide rape of a black Woman or child according to the death penalty

    information center. African-American prisoners who were convicted of murder

    are about 50 percent more likely to be innocent than other convicted murderers

    and spend longer in prison before exoneration, according to a report by a

    Michigan State University College of Law professor.

    Also the National Academy of Sciences study released in 2014 found that

    approximately 4 percent of death row inmates are innocent. as many as 30

    of the 737 prisoners awaiting execution in California were wrongly

    convicted. Death-row prisoners in the U.S. typically spend more than a

    decade awaiting execution Some prisoners have been on death row for well

    over 20 years. 8,406 people have been sentenced to death from 1977 until

    2012 55.4% of the death-row population is White, 42.3% is Black and 2.3% is

    of another race.

    Overall another reason to consider letting the death penalty stay illegal is

    that it is more expensive than life in prison Total Additional Costs of the

    Death Penalty A Susquehanna University report found that on the average

    across all 50 states a death row inmate costs $1.12 million more than a

    general population inmate. In July 2018, there were 2,738 inmates on death

    row. That's almost $3 billion additional expense than if they had all been

    sentenced to life in prison instead. Which I personally think we could be

    spending that money on other things such as on schools, cities and other

    expenses that would help regular citizens that are not convicted murderers
    https://www.thebalance.com/comparing-the-costs-of-death-penalty-vs-life-

    in-prison-4689874

    https://research.msu.edu/innocent-african-americans-more-likely-to-be-

    wrongfully-convicted/

    https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/race/race-rape-and-the-death-

    penalty

    https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/letters/2019/03/25/approximately-

    percent-death-row-inmates-are-

    innocent/djgIYVENbZHMiGMGoXIKIK/story.html

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