https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mental-mishaps/201110/executing-the-innocent-eyewitness-memory-errors-lead-injustice
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Kaelan Sebree
10/3/2018 08:52:07 am
Our memories are limited. We create false memories in response to misleading suggestions
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Destiny Wallace
10/3/2018 08:52:07 am
Some crimes are so heinous, so horrific, that the death penalty feels like justice. We are falsely confident after memory errors. No legal system should take someone's life based solely or primarily on eyewitness identification. I have not studied the case extensively, so I make no claim about his actual guilt or innocence. But when that innocent person has been executed, we cannot correct the error. There are a lot of reasons to oppose the death penalty. I am against the death penalty because I know that sometimes the wrong person is convicted.
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Cade
10/3/2018 08:53:15 am
Sometimes we may execute the innocent. People frequently choose somebody in a police line-up even when the culprit isn't there."Eyewitness misidentification is the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions, playing a role in 75% of convictions overturned through DNA testing."Many of these witnesses claimed that they were pressured by the police. When an innocent person languishes in jail, we can correct the error. People are regularly exonerated in our legal system.I cannot support the possible execution of the innocent.
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Haley Worland
10/3/2018 08:53:33 am
Georgia executed Troy Davis last week and I've been thinking a lot about the death penalty.
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Dominic Sachetti
10/3/2018 08:54:15 am
1) But as a cognitive psychologist, I worry that we create injustice by condoning a system that allows execution.
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Breanna Wassmer
10/3/2018 08:54:40 am
People frequently choose somebody in a police line-up even when the culprit isn't there.
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Amya Kemp
10/3/2018 08:55:30 am
Sometimes we may execute the innocent.People frequently choose somebody in a police line-up even when the culprit isn't there. No legal system should take someone's life based solely or primarily on eyewitness identification.An innocent man may have been executed.But when that innocent person has been executed, we cannot correct the error.There are a lot of reasons to oppose the death penalty.I cannot support the possible execution of the innocent.
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cassandra
10/3/2018 08:55:46 am
We create false memories in response to misleading suggestions. We reconstruct our memories. People frequently choose somebody in a police line-up even when the culprit isn't there.
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Kiara Barr
10/3/2018 08:57:20 am
what is a cognitive psychologist?
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kianna westbrook
10/3/2018 08:57:34 am
Some crimes are so heinous, so horrific, that the death penalty feels like justice.
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Keirra Holler
10/3/2018 09:01:55 am
"Eyewitness misidentification is the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions, playing a role in 75% of convictions overturned through DNA testing." People shoud make sure they have hard evidence before they convict someone of a crime they may not have committed.
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daejahn wright
10/3/2018 09:04:04 am
People frequently choose somebody in a police line-up even when the culprit isn't there.There are a lot of reasons to oppose the death penalty. You could have ethical reasons to avoid killing. You could argue that our system applies the death penalty in a biased fashion. You could be opposed to the expense of death penalty cases.
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10/3/2018 09:04:17 am
The limitations of eyewitness perception, memory, and cognition are almost innumerable.But when that innocent person has been executed. But as a cognitive psychologist, I worry that we create injustice by condoning a system that allows execution. Sometimes we may execute the innocent.
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Emili Stanley
10/3/2018 09:04:42 am
-Sometimes we may execute the innocent.
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Gregory Russell
10/3/2018 09:06:48 am
Sometimes we may execute the innocent.reconstruct our memories. People frequently choose somebody in a police line-up even when the culprit isn't there. "Eyewitness misidentification is the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions, playing a role in 75% of convictions overturned through DNA testing."Several of the witnesses who testified against Davis in the original trial have recanted in the years since that trial.When an innocent person languishes in jail, we can correct the error. You could argue that our system applies the death penalty in a biased fashion.
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