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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
The likelihood of you or I or even the black guy down the street being convicted of 1st degree murder and later be found innocent is far smaller than one of us being killed by a murderer. The use of DNA and the increase of media devises within our environment makes the odds for a false charge and conviction even smaller. You are gambling a lot more driving to work every day than you are by living in a State that has capital punishment.
Now driving to work has a great benefit to risk ratio. You expect to get paid but, really aren't worried a bus will hit you on the way. The question with capital punishment is what is the benefit. I mean the risk of a false charge and conviction is very small but, regardless of how small if there is no benefit it is a risk not worth taking. In my mind capital punishment is a benefit in that it is fair. You willfully take a life your life is taken. This basic idea of justice we all learn in childhood. Someone eats your candy; you want their candy is taken away. Fairness isn't revenge. Revenge is looking for extended punishment or torture. The execution of Mohammad didn't make up for the lives that he took. Mohammad couldn't make up for the innocent lives he took but, his death did close the account. The State required Mohammad pay the ultimate price for his murders. To paraphrase Clint Eastwood from "the Unforgiven": "Killing a man takes away everything he's got and everything he will ever have". Mohammad's account is closed.
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Interesting that "the black guy down the street" is included.
The wisdom of a fictional hitman and candyland justice aside, I find it odd that you put any credence at all into what modern science (in this case DNA evidence) can prove.