Experience has taught us that social class and race are huge indicators to whether or not someone will get a fair trial. It is estimated that there are as many as 200,000 innocent people in prison for crimes they did not commit. Some attorneys working in the Innocence Projects consider this to be a low estimate.

The police and judicial system is largely corrupt, and only offers true justice to those who can afford the inflated price tag. It is appalling that the people that have vowed to protect our most vulnerable citizens perpetrate the very thing they are sworn to uphold. Police and judicial corruption is so widespread it doesn’t even raise eyebrows anymore. We have become a nation of complacent people. We have grown to be indifferent to injustice. We fail to recognize that we could just as easily be the next victim of the biased system.

One of the greatest testaments that the system is unjust is the Death Penalty. The question we should be asking ourselves is ”If murder is wrong, then why do we execute people?“ When we use the Death Penalty as a punishment, the message that we offer our children is that revenge murder is acceptable.

"Taking another person's life is wrong.  Don't put a question mark where God puts a period," says Vicki Schieber, whose daughter Shannon was raped and killed in Pennyslvania.