Solved by a verified expert:1. The ABO blood system cannot positively identify someone. It can only be used to exclude. If a mother belongs to blood group O and her child is group A, to what blood group can the fatherNOTbelong?4. Go toThe Innocence Project website and click on “The Cases”. Select one of the 337 post conviction exoneree profiles and outline, in a few sentences, the story of this falsely convicted person.>link http://www.innocenceproject.org/5. Based on the evidence shown on the Innocence Project website it is clear that the criminal justice system does fail sometimes. There is evidence (in addition to just scrolling through the profiles on this site) that false convictions occur at a greater rate in poor and minority populations and that there are many crimes where there is no DNA left behind to help exonerate innocent people. We also know that most criminologists do not believe the death penalty serves as a deterrent to prevent criminal activity and that the costs of housing death row convicts is far more expensive than housing those serving life sentences.a. In light of these facts, do you believe the death penalty should be legal in the U.S.?b. If you are a death penalty proponent, indicate what percent of false conviction you think society should tolerate before reevaluating this penalty. In other words, Is a false conviction rate of 5% is enough to reconsider the death penalty, or do we need a 50% false conviction rate to change your position? Give a percentage of false convictions you would be willing to tolerate before re-evaluating your position on the death penalty as your answer. If you are not a death penalty proponent summarize how you think victims, and their families, can get justice for the loss of a loved one without the use of the death penalty.
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