There are times when guilty individuals are set free due to mistrials. The law has been arranged so innocent people are not executed. Many moral dilemmas have risen from this argument; the law has deemed that it is better to let a murderer free than execute an innocent individual. This in fact is treating individuals as ends and not simply as means. When the law fails and executes an innocent individual then the law has contradicted its purpose and that is why the death penalty needs to be abolished. Once an execution is conducted, there is no way to repent if a mistake has been made.
Governor George Ryan of Illinois stated, “I cannot support a system which, in its administration, has proven so fraught with error and has come so close to the ultimate nightmare, the state’s taking of innocent life... Until I can be sure that everyone sentenced to death in Illinois is truly guilty, until I can be sure with moral certainty that no innocent man or woman is facing a lethal injection, no one will meet that fate” (Amnesty).
The execution of an innocent person involves numerous of moral dilemmas.
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