"The Wrongfully Accused"

For years the death penalty has been a huge issue throughout society. There are often arguments on whether it is the right way to handle those "hard core" criminals. I feel that the death penalty is an appropriate action to take is certain cases. If someone is willing to cause pain to another individual, they should be willing to go through it to, no quesition.
Most recently, there has been complication with whether some cases even deserve the death penalty, or wrongfully accused suspects dying for no reason. In a case back in '95, a man by the name of Hank Skinner was convicted of the stabbing, strangling, and bludgeoning of his girlfriend and her two mentally challenged sons. All the evidence pointed to Skinner, but he still was convinced he was completely innocence. He appealed many times and kept trying to get others on his side but no one would buy his story. The courts eventually sentenced him to death on three counts of murder. For his finally request, Skinner asked for the courts to test the DNA from the crime scene to prove he was not guilty but that request was denied, time and time again. Skinner was to receive lethal injection years later in Huntsville Prison, Texas in the Supreme Court Building.
There are many reactions to this headline discussing how the governments mind is set once someone is said to be guilty. They seem to care less on whether a person should be proven innocent and are often portrayed as the bad guys when in reality they are suppose to help.

References:
Cohen, A. (2010, May 25). In death-penalty cases, innocence has to matter. Retrieved from http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1991827,00.html
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