https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mental-mishaps/201110/executing-the-innocent-eyewitness-memory-errors-lead-injustice
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Hunter McLaughlin
10/3/2018 11:01:49 am
"People are horrible eyewitnesses."
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Georgia executed Troy Davis last week and I've been thinking a lot about the death penalty.
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Matthew Hurt
10/3/2018 11:04:11 am
Sometimes we may execute the innocent. We create false memories in response to misleading suggestions. The Innocence Project reports that "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. But when that innocent person has been executed, we cannot correct the error. You could be opposed to the expense of death penalty cases. I cannot support the possible execution of the innocent.
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shelby rice
10/3/2018 11:04:43 am
Eyewitness misidentification is the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions, playing a role in 75% of convictions overturned through DNA testing.
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Hunter McLaughlin
10/3/2018 11:04:50 am
2) "Eyewitness misidentification is the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions, playing a role in 75% of convictions overturned through DNA testing."
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Roman Harrison
10/3/2018 11:04:56 am
Sometimes we may execute the innocent.Here's my basic problem: People are horrible eyewitnesses. We misperceive things. Our memories are limited. We create false memories in response to misleading suggestions. No legal system should take someone's life based solely or primarily on eyewitness identification.When an innocent person languishes in jail, we can correct the error.But when that innocent person has been executed, we cannot correct the error.I am against the death penalty because I know that sometimes the wrong person is convicted.
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10/3/2018 11:05:29 am
Georgia executed Troy Davis last week and I've been thinking a lot about the death penalty.The limitations of eyewitness perception, memory, and cognition are almost innumerable. 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 am against the death penalty because I know that sometimes the wrong person is convicted.
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E'Nijah Stinson
10/3/2018 11:07:07 am
The limitations of eyewitness perception, memory, and cognition are almost innumerable. The Innocence Project reports that "Eyewitness misidentification is the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions, playing a role in 75% of convictions overturned through DNA testing." No legal system should take someone's life based solely or primarily on eyewitness identification. An innocent man may have been executed. People are regularly exonerated in our legal system. There are a lot of reasons to oppose the death penalty. I cannot support the possible execution of the innocent.
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Jayson Lind
10/3/2018 11:07:24 am
Georgia executed Troy Davis last week and I've been thinking a lot about the death penalty. I've often been a proponent of the death penalty in some cases. Some crimes are so heinous, so horrific, that the death penalty feels like justice
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Eredia
10/3/2018 11:07:50 am
Georgia executed Troy Davis last week and I've been thinking a lot about the death penalty.We create false memories in response to misleading suggestions. No legal system should take someone's life based solely or primarily on eyewitness identification.An innocent man may have been executed.
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los
10/3/2018 11:08:38 am
We are falsely confident after memory errors."Eyewitness misidentification is the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions, playing a role in 75% of convictions overturned through DNA testing. An innocent man may have been executed.But when that innocent person has been executed, we cannot correct the error.
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jarico shane
10/3/2018 11:09:36 am
We are falsely confident after memory errors. The limitations of eyewitness perception, memory, and cognition are almost innumerable.
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jahsani
10/3/2018 11:14:26 am
"Eyewitness misidentification is the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions, playing a role in 75% of convictions overturned through DNA testing." As a cognitive psychologist, I have no doubt about the fallibility of human perception and memory. No legal system should take someone's life based solely or primarily on eyewitness identification.
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