The death penalty should only be imposed if the court can guarantee that the evidence used against the defendant is conclusive. There cannot be any doubt. The judges should be able to give a fair ruling based on clear evidence. This would prevent wrongful executions based on insufficient evidence. Gary Graham was a teenager convicted of robbery and murder in 1981. He received the death penalty and was executed in 2000. Key witnesses were not called to testify at his trial, preventing evidence that conflicted with another witness’s account from being revealed to the court ("Executed But Possibly Innocent", 2016). Had the witnesses been able to testify, Graham may not have been executed. He might have even been cleared of the charges against
