A few days ago
Ok, Im taking a logic class online and desperately need help.?
I need to analyze the arguments they contain, paraphrasing propositions where they are needed, and diagramming the argument where I find it helpful.
Since 1976, states (in the United States) have executed 612 people, and released 81 from death row who were found to be innocent. Is there any reason to believe that the criminal justice system is more accurate in non-capital cases? If the criminal justice system makes half the mistakes in non-capital cases that it makes in capital cases, thousands of innocent people live in our prisons.
Any help is appreciated.
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Well, for the first sentence to have any real impact, we’d need to know what processes got those 81 people released, how many others went through that process and were still found guilty, and (finally), derive some valid figure on how many of the others *should* have gone through that process and didn’t. That lets us compute an expected number of people who were unjustly executed, and *that* forms the proportion that gives us the actual error figure for the capital cases.
That final sentence seems to assume that the error rate is 81/(81+612), which is simply sloppy experimental science.
So much for the quantitative parts; I’ll let you run with the semantic analysis.
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