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Crime rates are usually a direct result of social conditions.

Innocent people are sometimes executed by mistake. There was a case in Texas a while back where a father was executed for starting a fire that burned his two kids. Someone working on the case discovered some crappy forensic work done at the time of the original investigation, and requested a stay on the execution until he could come up with more evidence to overturn the verdict, and Rick Perry ignored the request. The father was executed by the state of Texas, and afterwards it was proven that he was in fact innocent.

But that doesn't mean there aren't sick people out there that need to be removed from society. Lock them up in a 4x8 cell. I don't think it is right for a government to have the power to execute its own citizens.