This article talks about the silence of the Unites States Supreme Court in the execution case of Troy Davis last week. Capital punishment has always been viewed differently among different regions of America, and has mostly been left up to the discrimination of the states. This article discusses the influence that the Supreme Court could have had if it had simply made a court ruling decision that would establish guidelines throughout the entire country. Instead of making a statement, the court just chose to be silent. It did not agree, but it also did not disagree. This issue is of importance to me, because even though I live in south Texas (where most are in favor of the death penalty) I am against the death penalty. I do not believe that criminal behavior is deterred by proving that killing is wrong by killing criminals. We are also discovering new technology that counters previous methods of justifying criminals as guilty, and in the process we have realized that many have died innocently and unjustly.
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