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             death penalty in 1972 was ruled unconstitutional in Furman v. Georgia, the Justices
             expected that the "adoption of narrowly crafted sentencing procedures would protect
             against innocent persons being sentenced to death". But the chances that innocent
             persons have been or will be executed remain astoundingly high (Bedua 344). The
             United States justice system was formed on the premise that it should protect
             society's general well being from any harm. Processes and procedures have been
             formed and created in order to ensure that everyone receives fair treatment, but the
             system has flaws that has let criminals back out on the streets and put innocent
             people in jail and on death row. How can the nation's people put trust into an
             institution which has reportedly failed them again and again? The system can and will,
             and has in the past, falsely accused someone and wrongfully sentenced them to
             terminal punishment. Once a convicted prisoner meets the executioner, the prisoner
             has reached the point of no return. Death cannot be reversed once it has occurred.
             No issue posed by capital punishment is more disturbing to the public than the prospect
             that the government might execute innocent people. Proponents to the death penalty
             are, of course, also against executing an innocent person (Hook and Kahn 91). Most
             everyone would agree that killing someone is wrong. Proponents and opponents agree
             that murder is a heinous act and should be punished. Despite their hatred for those
             who kill, proponents support the killing of murderers as a just punishment for their
             deviant behaviors. In this sense, execution can be termed, "legal murder" because
             "executions shares enough of the characteristics of murder to be counted as part of
             the general category: it includes a victim who does not want to die, and an agent that
             nonetheless kills [the victim]" (Yanich 98]. Murder i...