RE: The DEATH Penalty
January 19, 2014 at 4:04 pm
(This post was last modified: January 19, 2014 at 4:07 pm by Minimalist.)
Quote:The list of innocents killed would likely only shrink over time as we get better at determining who is really innocent or guilty.
Nowhere near a good enough excuse. I presume you think that you would never be one of the unfortunate "accidents?"
Quote:The system is imperfect. I wish it wasn't, but the handful of lives that are lost is just a part of the imperfect world we live in.
Your method would make it incredibly worse. Death for the poor who get some over-worked public defender to handle their case? Sorry man. Don't go killing everyone in my name...which is what the state professes to do.