Death sentence. Yes or no?

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McDonaldsGuy said:

Normchacho said:
The death penalty really doesn't make sense to me...

1. It costs more than life in prison. (to the people bringing up appeals, when someone is sentenced to death their case goes through a mandatory "automatic appeal" to be as sure as possible that nobody missed anything).

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2014/05/01/considering-the-death-penalty-your-tax-dollars-at-work/

2. The death penalty doesn't deter crime.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/04/30/theres-still-no-evidence-that-executions-deter-criminals/

3. We do sometimes execute innocent people. This fact alone should be enough to stop the use of the death penalty because there is NO acceptable margin of error when it comes to execution.

http://www.criminaljusticedegreesguide.com/features/10-infamous-cases-of-wrongful-execution.html

Your third link pretty much proves me right: DNA has made it extremely improbable for innocent people to be executed. 15 years ago I would have been against the death penalty except for extreme cases, but now I feel it is accurate enough.

Many people have been found innocent after spending many years on death row. In fact just recently (I think his name was Glenn Ford) was found not guilty after spending 30 years on death row and was just weeks away from execution. Yeah, DNA is one hell of a defense.