Michael Wilkinson                   03 February 1997                            English 121 Limit Death Row Appeals         The Constitution of the United States outlines the rights of a person accused of a crime. The individual has a right to a trial and to be judged by a jury of his peers. When the result of a trial is a guilty verdict and the individual is sentenced to death, the individual has a right to appeal the verdict and the sentence. At the present time, …showed first 75 words of 1001 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1001 total…of the streets, feed the hungry, and help educate the youth. These convicts are not productive members of society and it is time that productive citizens demand swift justice and stop supporting these murderers with our hard earned money. The rights of the general public who obeys the laws should have more significance than weight that murderers. This is why death row inmates should be limited to one appeal and executed in a timely fashion.