Death Penatly final response

                I do believe the abolishment of the death penalty was right because many people that were put on death row were innocent. As it said in the movie Deadline many people were released from prison because of new DNA testing that proved that the prisoner was not any were near the crime scene. This caused a converse on whether or not the death penalty is the right way to punish people for their capital punishments. The reason for Governor Ryan's choices to abolish the death penalty is because of Porter’s release on television. As it states in the article What Killed Illinois' Death Penalty Ryan wondered "how a man could come within 50 hours of being executed, only to be set free by the effort of journalism professor, his students and a private investigator." This just proves that not all people on death row were murders they were wrongly committed.

               

               We should not kill murders with our own way of murder. As it said in What Killed Illinois' Death Penalty John Wayne Gacy was said to be guilty but it was never questioned. He was put to death with little controversy. Before his death, the death sentence and execution hit a record level. Also If Illinois did not put a stop to its death penalty we would still have people getting executed. The record would continue to keep growing; executing someone is a cruel and unusually punishment. Governor Ryan in 2000 put a halt to executions. He then declared a moratorium and found that 61% of the voters did not even know the state still had the death penalty and was shocked. We should not allow the death penalty if not everyone in that state agrees with it.

                 In Gov. Ryan’s speech he stated that he has changed his mind many times about the death penalty and found that it was wrong. He found out that 33 of the death row inmates were resented by attorneys that later on in their carrier were not allowed to practice law anymore. We don’t know if the inmates would have a better verdict if they didn’t have these attorneys. He also stated that not all death row convictions were fair. They were mainly biest; he found that two thirds of the inmates on death row were Africa America. He stated that he does not know how many convicted people were wrongly committed and that this broke the system of law. This speech and numerous other thing like the Chicago tribunes article made Illinois in 2011 to 2010 abolish the death penalty. The reason i believe the death penalty is morally wrong because many people are wrongly committed and put to death for no reason at all. I am very glad that the death penalty is abolished and i thank everyone involved in the end of the death penalty in Illinois.