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Originally Posted by fatso
OK. My example, though, was the victim of capital punishment who was wrongly convicted of murder. As we've just seen in the last couple weeks, innocent people are wrongly convicted of murder. Not all the time, but enough. I believe that because the possibility of executing an innocent individual exists, capital punishment should be disallowed for that reason alone.
So, if and when the system botches up, and executes an innocent individual, I can assume you'll be visiting his family explaining that his death was a necessary byproduct of a just system of death as punishment? That's your duty as Joe Blow citizen who believes in the death penalty?
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So then the comparision would be how many victims in each scenario. Wrongly acused reapeat offenders ... or whatever the criteria would be to be deemed not just a murderer, but an extreme, repeat or serial murderer vs number of people who die due to a repeat offender.
That would be an interesting study, but I'd guess you would be much more busy trying to connect with all the people you'd have to have discussions with than I.