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Originally Posted by Jason14h
I don't think people would plead guilty knowing they get the death penalty if they were innocent  |
Yeah, that's true, but that only applies to this specific case.
Take a look at some other examples here:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/wrongfullyconvicted/
In many of those cases, men were found guilty of murder and later exonerated. If Canada still permitted capital punishment for murder, how many of these innocent men would have been executed by the state?
Or, to put it another way, what ratio of guilty to wrongfully-convicted innocents are you willing to execute? 1:100? 1:1000? For me, killing even one innocent person is too many, so I can never support the death penalty.