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I am pro death penalty, and its not even a thing where I live. I've heard all the arguments against and I simply don't agree. I also don't consider it an ethical problem in regards to state sanctioned murder.
I am however in favour of painless executions and every effort should of course be made to ensure the event is as stress free as possible. I'm not a complete animal
What is your stance on the risks of killing innocent people through failure of the justice system?
Just from a numerical standpoint...I'd think the difference between these two numbers would be the determining factor for death penalty vs no death penalty.
How many innocent people have been killed on death row.
How many innocent people have been killed by those who Could have been sentenced to death, but were not because the death penalty was not allowed.
Obviously you can't know the exactly number, but if you could get an estimate, and one was larger than the other... then you could answer purely from a "saving X number of innocent lives" perspective.