If you don't believe in the death penalty, this should change your mind.

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MontanaHatchet said:

Username2324 said:

Rath said:

Username2324 said:
If they are to do something that currently meets the requirements of the death penalty, what good is it to keep them alive locked up?

 

To run about ten more appeals to make sure that they really do meet the requirments for the death penalty. Thing is unlike prison death is guaranteed permanent. You can't say 'Whoops, we fucked up, lets revive him'.

 

How many guilty go free because of this? I'd say it's a hell of a lot higher than the amount of innocents.

 

This is the part in the debate when someone should have posted a source instead of just hoping their opponent believes what they say.

 

While I look for a source, why do we not try 10 more times after someone has gone free? Obviously if someone is "innocent" it's going to be hard to record that they really weren't. The only stats I will find are ones of cases where they were "innocent" and later evidence said they were guilty. So it probably will be a very low percentage, but a very inaccurate one.